Podium: Making Mobile Apps More Social

Amazon in OC Computer Science, 2012-13

Liaison(s): Will Goo ’01, Bernie Perez
Advisor(s): Z Sweedyk
Students(s): Erin Coughlan (PM), Meredith Murphy, Haakon Saxberg, Michael Stock-Matthews

Amazon in OC would like to improve the customer experience with mobile apps on the Kindle Fire and other Android devices by adding in-app commenting. The HMC Clinic team has developed an API that allows mobile app developers to easily integrate with social networks. Customers can now read comments left by their friends while running the appat a line in a book, a scene in a movie, or a level in a gameas well as leave their own comments.