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Let’s All Get Friendlee

Friendlee is the new mobile social network from HP, which offers the ability to analyse calls and texts made on your mobile and collate them into a close contacts list.

It seems to do the hard work for you – if you are in constant contact with them, they will be elevated up the list and down if you neglect them. The Friendlee network will run on handsets compatible with Windows Mobile and Google Android as well as BlackBerry users.

What makes the system stand out, according to HP is that it can also tell which firms are used, and can use this information to make recommendations to other networked users. “It builds a network of people that you communicate with,” said the director of the social computing lab at the company’s Palo Alto research centre, Bernardo Huberman.

HP carried out extensive research into the use of social networks before developing this app which will be showcased at the Mobile HCI conference in Bonn, Germany, in September. The research said, according to a report in the BBC News, that “many relationships on Twitter were meaningless from an interaction point of view,” writing that “a link between any two people does not necessarily imply an interaction between them.”

The same rule applies to YouTube and Facebook. Friendlee offers an alternative in that it helps people to really interact, not just follow what others are doing.

Mr Huberman added that:“The idea of a social network that deals with reciprocity - I call you, you call me, we interact and so on - is much more meaningful than a listing like your whole Rolodex of everyone you've ever met,”



Industry News posted by Romany on 18 June 2009

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