How Mobile Disrupts and Opens Up Social as We Know It. Every computer revolution changes our lives dramatically; so will mobile devices. Mobile devices enable billions of people to capture, share, interact, and consume real-time personal media in new and creative ways. In addition, being devices owned by individuals, they can form an autonomous computing fabric that frees us from the domination of existing centralized proprietary social networking services.

The MobiSocial Computing Laboratory at Stanford has created a system called Musubi to demonstrate such a possibility. Musubi includes a group-chat capability that allows groups of friends to exchange media with each other in real time. With the help of a secure real-time messaging service, shared data are sent and stored directly on individuals' phones. Users have full control of their data, as they can select their own backup service. More importantly, Musubi is also an attractive social app platform that helps apps spread through friends, without necessarily disclosing friends' identities to third-party apps. It enables a new class of viral and easy-to-create social apps that honors users’ privacy.


Musubi is currently available, along with several representative apps for both Android and the iOS in their respective app stores.



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