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Location based social networking (LBSN) applications are part of a new suite of emerging social networking tools that run on the Web 2.0 platform. LBSN is the convergence between location based services (LBS) and online social networking (OSN). LBSN applications offer users the ability to look up the location of another “friend” remotely using a smart phone, desktop or other device, anytime and anywhere...
This paper is predominantly a review of literature on the emerging mobile application area known as location-based social networking. The study applies the social informatics framework to the exploratory question of what effect location based social networking may have on relationships between people. The classification model used in the paper relates previous research on location based services and...
The current and successful trend of Online Social Networks and the availability of programming interfaces to develop applications for them, offer telecommunication operators the opportunity to introduce a new type of services to enhance the best of both worlds: Social Communications. These services try to provide an integration between basic, advanced and convergent communication services and the...
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