This news is mainly introducing the privacy problem of contact list used in social network. Many apps designed for contact list is to help users connect with their friends conveniently. In recent years many people are willing to accept broadcasting their location and information with others so that they can meet more new friends. Though contact list are always stored into usersâ own mobile, there are many potentially security problems. From this news, authors take many examples to prove this kind of situation. An app of mobile the Path used contact list to realize the functions of social network such as sharing and transferring information. Due to the poor security function, the privacy information of users has been exposed. Thus more users begin realizing whether their privacy has been revealed through these social networks. Other content of this new is talking about another example of this problem. Therefore, in term of our apps, privacy is an inevitable point to consider carefully. After all, our app is based on the contact list to develop other additional functions.
This news is focusing on the Path a successful contact list app in mobile. And there is some experience we can take them as examples into our app.
Path is an app based on contact list of mobile; it has a great number of user groups now. Though there are some problems occurred in early stage of Path such as charged by users due to the exposing their personal information, it also has attracted many users to try it. As we know, the most important key in social network is the user group. Thus, how to get the stable user group is a crucial point to learn from Path. From this news, Path attracts some active memberships from other social websites who has a large number of fans. I think is a good and efficient method to use in our app. additionally, there is permission for users when they first use the Path, which is good for terms of privacy. Depends on our app, it is necessary for us to make permission for users before they use the app and some security measures can be embed into our app. Path is a impressive app on contact list and its pattern has proved. However, comparison with our project: Rank First, Path cannot do the rank for customers. Rank is the most obvious function of our product. By using Rank First, customer also can do the actions like another SNS websites.
This news indicates a new address list social service. It is called Everyme. Like the Path, the contact list is the core function used in social service. Though our app take the relationships to describe the social service, some specifically extra functions supported by Everyme are remarkable. For instance, when customers use this app, they will get the much relevant information of their friends. Additionally, contact list is the home to close people so that it is convenient to communicate with those favorite people. I think it is the biggest advantage of contact list social service. Moreover, Everyme support a group message, it allow some friends talk with each other in a specially privacy space. In my view, we can use it for reference to add some similar functions. Also, its user interface is simple for users to understand and accept. Through collecting relevant news, I found that there are lots of similar social services based on the contact list. Thus, I think we need to highlight our own special originality. Though, Everyme emphasize on the âclose friendsâ, it cannot analyze the level of âcloseâ. As to Rank first, it not only can rank the relevant information for customers, also it can as a SNS service, you can bound with other SNS website such as Facebook, to do some âSNSâ actions (e.g.post photos, publish your blog).
Our app will not only focus on the innovation of technology, also it needs to consider about the commerce strategies. First of allïŒ the SEO (Search engine optimization) always play an important role in the process of popularity increasing. This news indicates some useful information about Google page rank mechanism. Based on the news, though there are many optimizing tools SEO supported by some companies, some tools are not trust by Google. Taking the Yahoo Site Explorer as the example, some links are provided in order to increasing the rank in the result of searching. However, some links are not trust by Google so that these links are not counted. From the news, Cutts (an engineer of Google) said that there will be subsample of links to anybody for any given page or any given site and it is more fair method to judge more quality links included in the pages or sites. Thus, we must pay more attention on this problem. SEO tool is inevitable for future development of our product. We cannot just take some simple optimizing tools to realize the target; also we need handle and notice the key policies of Google.
The main content of this news is to indicate a really current situation in Social network. For example, depends on Facebook, though many customers take advantage of it, most of their âfriendsâ are not the close friends or the friends who need not pay more attention. And, some friends who people calling or sending message are always necessary to regard as keeping close relationship. Thus, according to the writer, the mobile interaction often plays an inevitable role in social network. After that, writer also point out âmobile first, web secondâ, this kind of apps has highly growth in recent years so that customers obtain the more useful or efficient social relationship through their mobile contact. Moreover, many similar apps can be used IOS, Android and other mobile platforms by different APIs to deploy. Also, the writer takes Apple as an instance to describe its strategy in this field. Certainly, it is just more useful in people want share their photo, message or location with their close friends. In terms of this kind of app, using contact list as a brand new approach to realize the actual social graph can attract potential user group to choose it as a new platform to communicate with their close friends. Based on this news, our app can satisfy the basic requirement in this field and it seems to be a reasonable design. I will post more relevant news later.
Links: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/04/mobile-contacts-social-network/;
