AbstractDeveloping location based services on a facebook-integrated common platformTrack: Technology Integration Author Location-based services hold great potential in the future of mobile computing. Up till the present time, all applications aiming to provide these services were custom developed with very little support for the challenges lying ahead of developers. Beside this problem to effectively use these applications in a customized fashion. Using social networks in, users need to be able to have single-sign-on (SSO) capability and a common control set location-based services creates a new environment for these applications. The ability to locate the user can be spread across multiple social (or commercial) networks at once. This enables the development of a new generation of location-based services: not only can these applications be interconnected, they can also be customized to any user-group within social networks. These possibilities create technological challenges to developers: integrating a common map-base with social networking and GPS data transport is vital. Ferenc Brachmann University of Pécs - Faculty of Sciences Ifjúság útja 6. Pécs, Baranya 7623 Hungary Phone: +36204541035 E-mail: brachmann.ferenc@ttk.pte.hu |