A vertical view of social structure on location-utilized mobile games

The mobile Internet emerges and penetrates into every day life. The difference between the mobile Internet and the PC Internet is interesting. It is also important to capture the business model differences if any exists. The author focuses location-based game applications to highlight the mobile specific service development issues. The author proposes a framework model to position location-utilized game applications. This provides a good framework how they can address and utilize mobile specific features for the mobile data service engineering.