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Social Serendipity: Mobilizing Social Software (2005)
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Nathan Eagle
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Alex Pentland
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@MISC{Eagle05socialserendipity:,
author = {Nathan Eagle and Alex Pentland},
title = { Social Serendipity: Mobilizing Social Software},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
A new mobile-phone–based system uses Bluetooth hardware addresses and a database of user profiles to cue informal, face-to-face interactions between nearby users who don’t know each other, but probably should. Mobile phones have been adopted faster than any technology in human history and are now available to the majority of people on Earth who earn more than US$5 a day. More than 600 million phones were sold in 2004, many times more than the number of personal computers sold that year.
