TY - GEN
T1 - Success factors in Mobile Social Networking application development
T2 - 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2014
AU - Peng, Rong
AU - Sun, Dong
AU - Tsai, Wei Tek
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The distinguished features of mobile computing bring both opportunities and challenges to the development of Mobile Social Networking (MSN) applications. Learning the successful experiences from existing MSN applications is valuable to both industry and academy. The paper aims at identifying the success factors of Instagram, a well-known MSN application. By performing a historical case study, rapid development and reaction, continuous focus on system scalability on demand, and creating a good external environment are regarded as the three important success factors. To achieve those success factors, 1) using existing mature Open Source Software (OSS) extensively and consulting resident experts at websites when necessary are the secrets to develop and react to new requirements rapidly; 2) monitoring the status of the system by tools and focusing on scalability in both architecture design and detail optimization are vital to guarantee the system scalable on demand; and 3) creating appropriate social networks for different type of stakeholders using right popular social media tools is important to create a good external environment effectively. Based on these insights, the development methodology of Instagram has been extracted, that can be used to guide the MSN application development. At the end, the validation, reliability and generalizability of the information gathered from the case study are discussed thoroughly.
AB - The distinguished features of mobile computing bring both opportunities and challenges to the development of Mobile Social Networking (MSN) applications. Learning the successful experiences from existing MSN applications is valuable to both industry and academy. The paper aims at identifying the success factors of Instagram, a well-known MSN application. By performing a historical case study, rapid development and reaction, continuous focus on system scalability on demand, and creating a good external environment are regarded as the three important success factors. To achieve those success factors, 1) using existing mature Open Source Software (OSS) extensively and consulting resident experts at websites when necessary are the secrets to develop and react to new requirements rapidly; 2) monitoring the status of the system by tools and focusing on scalability in both architecture design and detail optimization are vital to guarantee the system scalable on demand; and 3) creating appropriate social networks for different type of stakeholders using right popular social media tools is important to create a good external environment effectively. Based on these insights, the development methodology of Instagram has been extracted, that can be used to guide the MSN application development. At the end, the validation, reliability and generalizability of the information gathered from the case study are discussed thoroughly.
KW - Historical case study
KW - Mobile social networking application
KW - Open source software reuse
KW - Scalability
KW - Social network
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84905639559
U2 - 10.1145/2554850.2554902
DO - 10.1145/2554850.2554902
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84905639559
SN - 9781450324694
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 1072
EP - 1079
BT - Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 24 March 2014 through 28 March 2014
ER -