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Blog Summary – Sami

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Blog List

Blog Posts

Welcome and project brief

A New Intelligent Way of Managing Events – Sami

Analysis of existing similar tools

Analysis of existing similar tools Part 1 – Why our idea has a unique perspective! – Someah & Sami

Analysis of Existing Tools – Part 2 – Sami

Related academic work

Related Academic Work – Sami

Links to related news items in the tech media

Links to Related News Items in the Tech Media: Events Everywhere – Jokha & Sami

Interviews with users or focus groups

Survey Design – Sami

Using a Qualitative Method to get Feedback on our Social Networking Application Idea – Sami & Someah

Survey Results – Sami

Mockups and Ideas

Application Refined Version 2.0 – Sami

Business Model – Jokha & Sami

Application Refined Version 3.0 – Sami

Data Legal Challenges – Someah, Jokha & Sami

System Flow Diagram – Sami

Branding – Sami

Mockups – Sami

Application Refined Version 4.0 – Sami

Application Refined Version 5.0 – Sami

Scenarios and Personas

Business Events – Sami

Pleasure Events – Sami

Business Use Case Scenarios & UML – Sami

Pleasure Use Case Scenarios & UML – Sami

London & Southampton Scenarios – Someah & Sami

Web maps and Storyboards

Storyboard – Jokha

Storyboard 2 – Jokha

Storyboard 3 – Jokha‎

Tech demos and code snippets

SPARQL & Pseudo Code Example – Sami

UML diagrams

Business Use Case Scenarios & UML – Sami & Someah

Pleasure Use Case Scenarios & UML – Someah & Sami

Overview of standards and protocols

Standards & Protocols Overview – Jokha & Sami

Link to demo software

Mockups – Sami

Video of software in action

Advertising Video – Sami

Testing data

Open Data Within Our Application – Someah, Jokha & Sami

SPARQL & Pseudo Code Example – Sami

Outcomes of usability evaluation

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Overview of pitch to dragons den panel

Overview of Dragons Den Pitch – Sami

 

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Application Refined Version 3.0 – Sami

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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Application Refined Version 2.0 – Sami

After looking at the related academic work and exploring the different sites that already existed, it seemed like our idea really had a competitive advantage in that we couldn’t find other social networking applications or indeed event organisation sites that quite offered the service ours would.

Building from that different event types were discussed and from looking at the way other sites had been split (including sites that weren’t even event sites) it became clear that there was an obvious Business/Pleasure split for the different types of events our application could cater for.

The next few blog posts will be exploring the different needs of business and pleasure applications to work out which features would be most useful for our application.

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A new intelligent way of managing events – Sami

Our idea for a social networking application is centered around events, it has two main aims:

1. To bring people together from all different (and in some cases no) social networks.
2. To make organising and planning events easier (specifically the travel element).

Why?
We don’t want to create yet another social networking site that necessitates another set of user accounts; more we want to build and improve upon what we already have.

Our idea is to create a social space for managing events; whereby events from different social networking events can be linked, and anyone (irrespective of whether they belong to a social network, or which one they belong to) can be invited.

All attendees of the event will specify where they are travelling from and their preferred transport options. Our application will then collate sensible travel options together for different groups. For example, if several people from Portswood, Southampton were attending an event in the town centre and they all selected ‘Taxi’ as a transport option; our application would suggest that they all shared a taxi together to reduce costs.

Type of Application
This application will be created with a view to commercialise it.

Commercialisation Potential
This application could be commercialised initially by the use of advertising (e.g specific taxi companies would pay to advertise with us, and we would promote them as the taxi company to call for that transport option). Once the application is more established and has begun to grow, additional options such as booking group train tickets, coaches, even flights could be done through this application with a certain fee going to us as the facilitators of this transaction.

Future Potential 
There is great scope for future development of this idea, as a simple version with minimal transport options intended for local areas could be created initially; with the potential to expand out into international travel with all sorts of travel options, even potentially multiple combinations of travel such as taxi –> plane –> taxi.

 

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