Author Archives: Jonny

The Pitch

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

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

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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About Last Night

After its public launch at the pitch last week, I feel it is now appropriate to post the first ever advert for taggr. It tells the story of Katie waking up after a night on the town, she met a … Continue reading

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Facebook Privacy Concerns

This post is being made, not particularly as an attack on Facebook, as Myspace had the same sort of problems when it was the biggest player, and we believe any company which rises to such heights will be a risk … Continue reading

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To SQL or not to SQL?

The first version of the prototype (running on this website) used MySQL to store the tags. This was fine but called for a much more complicated layout when we began to deal with multiple accounts, some people having just one … Continue reading

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State of the prototype(s)

Throughout the project as we experimented with different ideas we have created different prototypes to try them out in an isolated setting. In this post I will go over some of the prototypes created so far. In a future post … Continue reading

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A Single identity

One problem which I noticed which was missed by the critical friends (and us, until just now) is that there is still no way to tag your friends if they are only on myspace and you are not. As long … Continue reading

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Establishing ownership of a domain

In order to allow a site owner to control settings about tagging on their site/images, we first need to establish who they are. To do this we decided to follow the same model used by Google Apps and a number … Continue reading

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Peer to Peer

Peer-to-peer is “The sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems” (Ding, et al., 2004). This was initially created to allow for higher performance by connecting computers together directly without needing to be coordinated by a central … Continue reading

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