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Idea evaluation
In previous posts (literature survey, existing applications) devoted to a field of interests’ investigation, we published an overview of existing applications and researches related to our initial idea. The survey showed that the demand in the web market and research community for recommendation systems, has led to its mass production in the past few years. Some of these suggestion tools are quite successful (Jinni, Filmaster Blog, Faves for Facebook, etc.) as they provide rich functionality and a good quality of recommendations. However, in this sketch we will differentiate our idea from existing solutions and also outline strengths of the proposed system.
The Implementation (first steps)
This week we spent efforts to implement the basic architecture components. More specifically build an HTML web page for authenticating the user and authorizing our application. The result of this procedure is the provision of an “access token”. This token is passed to our servlet using the HTTP GET method. The servlet application is now able to have access to all features provided by the Facebook Graph API.
As you can see in the following figure, we tested our web application by checking-in some friends in Athens Greece. This feature will be embedded to our application so people to be able to inform their friends about a movie they watched, the place and their comments they have.
A Check-in post using the Facebook Graph API