How to develop a mobile 2.0 application

{greet.jans; licia.calvi} @ soc.kuleuven.be The idea that technologies can (help to) generate communities is not new. Still, we believe that new media (like Web 2.0 technologies) are more suitable for this social interaction than more traditional ‘channels, ’ which gave users very limited opportunity to participate. This suitability is related to the sociability concept and the communication possibilities these new media entail. To this end, we focused on an analysis of blogging practices, YouTube, games and other mobile devices on which communities can be built by means of research. The goal of this study is to examine which ways exist to interact on a mobile device in the near future with particular attention to the interface design of a city application