Event Features
The results from our business and pleasure event analysis showed that the most common features that would be useful to both business and pleasure events were:
- group travel
- multiple travel organisation (aka train then taxi)
- weather forecast information
These therefore are the main features that will be offered in the first version of our application. Future features will include:
- local area info
- accomodation
- venue booking
Login Features
In the interest of breaking down the barriers between different social networks, this application will allow logging in/signing up, in multiple different ways. In the initial version of our application login will be facilitated through:
- Login with Facebook [1]
- Login with Google Plus [2]
- Login with Twitter [3]
- Sign up to our site and create an account to login with
This means that if someone has a social networking account with any of those platforms they can still login to our application without having to create a new account.
Additionally guests can be invited to events who don’t have an account by their email address, and they will receive a link to view the event at.
In the same vein as our advertising features, this social networking app is about providing a service, and is less about collecting lots of data about the users. FOAF [4] could be used to facilitate working out who knows who for each event to make the travel planning easier, and an Address book importer [5] could be used to extract an event planners contacts to make the invite process easier.
References
[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/
[2] https://developers.google.com/+/web/signin/
[3] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/sign-twitter
[4] http://www.foaf-project.org/
[5] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87408/get-contacts-from-email-account
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