Monthly Archives: March 2012

Similar Existing Tools – Facebook and Pinterest

Posted on March 24, 2012 by pt4g11

Facebook Facebook is the most popular social network with 845 million users and allows users to register and create a profile. They can add other users as friends and then they can exchange messages and communicate with each other. Facebook … Continue reading →

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Similar Existing Tools – GetGlue and Meetup

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Amir AryaArjmand

GetGlue is a leading social network for entertainment. Users check-in and share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends. Based on their check-ins they will receive points and may earn virtual stickers, receive fresh recommendations, and can … Continue reading →

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Related News Items

Posted on March 21, 2012 by hq1g08

Harry and Andy have been trawling the WWW, and in our first ‘background research’ post, we share with you some recent news items relating to our project. We are currently analysing existing similar tools to our project idea, and we will … Continue reading →

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Our Chosen Idea – An Interest-based Social Network

Posted on March 19, 2012 by hq1g08

After some group discussion, we have chosen to proceed with idea 2 – an interest-based social networking site. Why have we chosen this idea? It is something that is missing from the world of online social networks. There are websites … Continue reading →

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Idea 4 – Personality Test: Interest-based test on a social networking website

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Amir AryaArjmand

In this final ideas post, Amir describes an interest-based online test – one which can analyse a user’s personalities based on their social/interest networks for a number of uses. In the next post, we will present our chosen idea, why … Continue reading →

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Idea 3 – Build up A Social Network for Runners

Posted on March 13, 2012 by kh4g09

In this third ideas post, Andy describes his ideas for a social network for a specific interest – fitness. The Current Situation — Why do we need this In current social networks, users share daily routines with their friends. However, … Continue reading →

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Idea 2 – Interest-based Social Network

Posted on March 12, 2012 by hq1g08

In this second ideas post, Harry describes some ideas for an interest-based social network. The current situation – Why do we need this? The problem with a social networking site like Facebook is that users tend to have people added … Continue reading →

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Idea 1 – Cooking Contest Facebook Application

Posted on March 12, 2012 by pt4g11

In our first of four ideas posts, Panos describes a Facebook-based cooking contest application. The current situation – Why we build this? Social networks have become an everyday activity in most people’s lives and many of them, are trying to … Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on March 12, 2012 by hq1g08

Hello everyone, and welcome to our blog. We are “Hive”, a group made up of members from a number of different disciplines within ECS, and this blog will be here to present our progress with the design and development of … Continue reading →

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