HP test mobile social network

An intelligent, mobile-phone-based social network is being tested by researchers at Hewlett Packard. BBC reports.

Friendlee analyses calls and messages to build up a picture of a person's closest correspondents.

Regular contacts are displayed more prominently so that users do not have to wade through a phonebook to find them.

The system also analyses which firms a person uses to generate recommendations to other people in their network.

"It builds a network of people that you communicate with," explained Bernardo Huberman, director of the social computing lab at the firm's Palo Alto research centre.

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emily | 9:13 AM | Technology |
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