Abstract: A pinning service interaction agent receives a user input indicating an object, corresponding to an application, to be pinned to a selected mobile device screen. The agent receives user selection of content, that is stored in a document on a remote data store, to be displayed in the object. The agent intermittently receives refresh data refreshing the content displayed in the pinned object based on the content stored in the document on the remote data store.

Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing one or more location-based messaging groups are presented. Geolocation information associated with a current location of a client computing device may be sent to a group messaging service. A request to identify one or more location-based messaging groups corresponding to the current location of the client computing device may be sent from a group messaging application to the group messaging service. Information associated with one or more location-based messaging groups for which the current location of the client computing device meets a location-based threshold may be received from the group messaging service, and the one or more location-based messaging groups for which the current location of the client computing device meets the location-based surfacing threshold may be surface on a display of the client computing device.

Abstract: A database is populated with information provided by users of the messaging system, the messaging system for effecting instant messaging communication sessions via a network. Initial information held in the database itself is used to generate a plurality of information requests. Each of the information requests is sent to a recipient user via the network in an instant messaging communication session affected by the messaging system. Fields of the database are assigned to the recipient uses or to groups of the recipient users, and their responses to the information requests are used to populate those fields.