Paper 3: A Web Service for Flexible Integration of Mobile Applications with Social Networks

Title: A Web Service for Flexible Integration of Mobile Applications with Social Networks
Authors: Victor Pantoja, Markus Endler
Link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2090316.2090320

In their paper, the authors discuss their Mobile Social Gateway service, or MoSoGw for short. The framework is designed to connect to social networks, while tapping into the physical hardware capabilities of the phone. MoSoGw works as an intermediary, between social networks and the phone, letting the two pass context information back and forth.

The framework is designed to work with multiple social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The MoSoGw server application uses standard web technologies such as MySQL databases, while handling the data transfers using HTTP requests and JSON. The sever application is written in Python, while the Android client is written in Java.