Monthly Archives: May 2011

Final Project Plan

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Sumair
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A framework for Decentralization

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Sumair

Social networking forms an important part of online activities of Web users. Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have millions of users using them everyday. However, these sites present two problems. Firstly, these sites form information silos. Information … Continue reading →

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Reaching our users

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Larry Lan

So far we have finished our prototype, related research to justify it, the business model, now we’ll focus on marketing, how to reach our users. There’re over 156 million blogs online, 600 million active users on Facebook, hundreds of millions … Continue reading →

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Latest in Social Tagging

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Deep

1. Social tagging in enterprise:- Does tagging work at work ? (http://www.uie.com/articles/social_tagging/) 2. Social tagging accelerates acceptance of business tagging in SharePoint (http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/Does-e2809cSocial-Tagginge2809d-Accelerate-Acceptance-Of-e2809cBusiness-Tagginge2809d-In-SharePoint) 3. Social Taggin on Iphone (http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/09/tc50-sekai-camera-for-social-tagging-on-the-iphone/) 4. IPods with a built in FM radio will show the … Continue reading →

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Data Protection on privacy in social networking sites

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Deep

Obviously there are a number of privacy concerns which must be tackled with when creating a social networking service and there are a number of laws which we must be aware of in this regard. Especially with kind of crazy … Continue reading →

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The Pitch

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jonny

After a whole load of hard work and preparation. Our project culminated in a 10 minute pitch + 10 minute Q&A session last week. You can see the results below (in two parts because of the 10 minutes limit on … Continue reading →

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All for one and one ToS for all

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jonny

One of the issues raised by the critical friends in the lead up to the pitch was how terms of service would be managed if we were going to be using the image on a large number of social networks, … Continue reading →

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Week 13

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jonny

This update is a week late due to exams. Last week we had two meetings, the first to plan for the presentation and assign the final blog posts which need to be made, and the second to practice the presentation … Continue reading →

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Test results

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Larry Lan

To make sure our prototype is both technically right and easy to use, we conducted a series of usability tests. Compatibility Tests Although the prototype was only designed to work in Google Chrome, it is worth testing its compatibility with … Continue reading →

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Personas and Scenarios II

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Sumair

These are some of the remaining possible scenarios Scenario 3: Actor: An existing social network Context: An existing social network such as Facebook, Orkut wants to add new features to its existing set of online socialising facilities or it’s reviewing … Continue reading →

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