Social apps provide an opportunity to build smart communities by pulling together citizens based on location and interests, and harnessing the power of the collective group.
These social-local-mobile apps (creatively named SoLoMo) have been generating a lot of buzz lately, but what exactly are they, and how will they change daily life within your city? SoLoMo refers to mobile-first apps that innately leverage a user’s GPS location to deliver contextual information, often within a social network environment. The simplest example is a check-in platform like Foursquare. But the smart cities of the future will be formed by applications that go well beyond location check-ins… to introduce neighbors, classmates, and co-workers, and actually knit the social threads of a community together through its citizens.
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