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means that the role of mobile devices in community-built databases must be
empowered.
Currently, mobile phones are used for mostly accessing community-built data-
bases. Examples include social networks mobile applications for accessing Face-
book, Flickr, Twitter, FourSquare, or any other important social network. But most
of those mobile interfaces don not allow users to access all the functionalities
offered by a computer. Only a few social networks are currently able to expand
the capabilities of mobile phones in order to add extra functionalities when using a
mobile phone. That is the case with FourSquare, a social service that allows users to
share their location and find nearby businesses or places of interest.
We have reviewed several opportunities for mobile phones in order to improve
their use and contribution to community-built databases. When used as an interface
to access Web social networks, technologies such as augmented reality, or the
sensors now available in most mobile phones (GSP, accelerometer, and digital
compass) allow social networks and other community-built databases to offer their
users a real mobile experience. But mobile phones can also be used as an important
part of the database itself hosting personal information such as the user profile. To
allow that kind of applications, more research on mobile databases must be under-
taken, especially on mobile host-fixed clients and P2P mobile databases. We also
believe that there will be an extensive research on OAuth-related protocols applied
to mobile databases in order to make it possible for Web applications to access
contents hosted on mobile phones.
The use of mobile phones as the core of community-built databases has emerged
as an excellent research field for the next years and we believe it will attract the
interest of researchers and companies as it combines two of the most rapidly
increasing segments of the Web: Mobile Web and Social Web.
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