Category Archives: Technical Problems

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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Privacy settings

Privacy is a big concern when grouping photographs of people together. Facebook has very complex privacy settings to decide who can see which photos and we need to consider this carefully. First to be considered is the privacy of the … Continue reading

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OAuth

With so many servers running independently of each other on the etags network, there needs to be a way to give a server permission to access parts of a user’s social networking profile, without handing over the entirety of a … Continue reading

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A proposal for a decentralised image tagging service

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Proposed Architecture

(Note that this is proposed before we have completed the research on linked data – so this is subject to change) This first thing to notice is that there are many eTags servers in existence – the “official” one existing … Continue reading

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Semantic Web

The semantic web enables software to understand data on the web (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/SW-FAQ). This week I have been looking into ways that semantic data can be added to the application in a standards compliant way. The first port of call is … Continue reading

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