Group 7 : OrientExpress Blog

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 ‘friends’ 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 “mobile first, web second”, 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/;

Think about what your real social life looks like for a second, you will find that different from the current social networks like Facebook or Twitter, people you know and you actually interact with most in real life are in your mobile contacts. Our actual social life is stored in our mobile contacts.

Hence, our project is a social networking application which is built based on the mobile contacts. Through our application, the degree of relationship between you and your friends can be visualized. According to our featured algorithm, credits will be added with each person on mobile contacts based on every interaction. More importantly, the generated contacts credits rank can be imported to other social networking websites like Facebook to prioritize information based on credit. Higher credit gets higher priority and hence more wall space. All in all, this will be a totally new social networking application based on your mobile contacts and the history records of your mobile phone social activities.

In conclusion, this application will enable the user to view the relationships with their friends through a visualization and bring close friends even closer. And at the same time, optimize the form of expression on Facebook in a more sensible order and structure.