'Be a Freeporter!': Enabling a Mobile News Publishing Community

This presenation was given on the conference Mobile Entertainment: User-Centred Perspectives on 27.3.2004 in Manchester.

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Table of contents

Title

Overview

Scenario: mobs of Freeporters

Indication of a paradigm shift

3 technical components

Requirements for a distribution mechanism

Rating systems

News distribution with broadcast stations

News distribution without broadcast stations

Disconnected users

Connected users

Group structure

Degrees of separation

Local reputation system

Local reputation as P2P

Dynamics in the network

Extending the Blogosphere

Summary & future work

Author: Tom Nicolai

E-Mail: nicolai@tzi.de

Homepage: http://www.tzi.de/~nicolai

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