• j2me
• social platform
• mobile
• j2ee
• java
• SNA
• AJAX
• ejb 3.0

Social network websites like Facebook and MySpace are widely used worldwide and the mashup content aggregation technology is gaining attention by many software developers and CTOs which are looking at it as a potential replacement of portal technologies. At the same time, social network websites are attracting the interest of some firms and CRM software vendors. With flat-rate pricing offers for mobile data traffic by the most important mobile telephony operators a growth in demand of mobile data services is expected.

The aim of this thesis is to develop a mobile mashup of context aware news provisioning and social networking services to be integrated into an existing mobile mall software.

First we introduce social network analysis, the theory lying behind social networks, and its most relevant findings. We define what is a social network website and how it differs from a mobile social network. To understand what influences the adoption of mobile data services a model based on the Triandis theory of explaining human behaviour is introduced and used.

We will then analyse the state of the art in social network websites, event planning services and technologies to deliver news from different sources. The analysis will enable us to identify what are the most important services to include directly in the mashup and which ones have to be developed internally.

Lastly we introduce the technologies used to develop the mobile mashup application and display the most relevant design and development work done during the thesis.