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Possible Revenue Models

Posted on May 11, 2012 by hq1g08

Basic Advertising Hive could offer advertisers the chance to advertise their brands/products on the website. It could be a basic service, with no audience specific targeting. Advertising may not be a very good source of revenue in a social networking … Continue reading →

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People and Online Social Networks – Survey Results and Analysis

Posted on May 11, 2012 by hq1g08

To help better understand our target audience, and to better design Hive’s features, we have conducted a survey on a group of 71 young adults. Below are the results and our analysis: People prefer to use fewer online social networking … Continue reading →

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APIs – Fetching User’s Interests from Existing Sites

Posted on May 10, 2012 by hq1g08

To help make the process of adding interests to the user’s interest list easier, a number of APIs from other websites will be considered to fetch the user’s interest information if they are members of the other websites. Facebook To … Continue reading →

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Hive – The Features

Posted on May 10, 2012 by hq1g08

Registration/Adding Interests At registration, the user will be prompted to add their interests and optional details such as real name, location, gender and D.O.B (this personal information will not be shared with any third parties without the user’s permission, and … Continue reading →

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What Makes Hive Different?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by hq1g08

Hive is a place for people to connect with each other through the things they love. It is a place where people can share, discuss, and discover. It is a place people can be passionate about their favourite things together, … Continue reading →

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Related News Items

Posted on March 21, 2012 by hq1g08

Harry and Andy have been trawling the WWW, and in our first ‘background research’ post, we share with you some recent news items relating to our project. We are currently analysing existing similar tools to our project idea, and we will … Continue reading →

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Our Chosen Idea – An Interest-based Social Network

Posted on March 19, 2012 by hq1g08

After some group discussion, we have chosen to proceed with idea 2 – an interest-based social networking site. Why have we chosen this idea? It is something that is missing from the world of online social networks. There are websites … Continue reading →

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Idea 2 – Interest-based Social Network

Posted on March 12, 2012 by hq1g08

In this second ideas post, Harry describes some ideas for an interest-based social network. The current situation – Why do we need this? The problem with a social networking site like Facebook is that users tend to have people added … Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on March 12, 2012 by hq1g08

Hello everyone, and welcome to our blog. We are “Hive”, a group made up of members from a number of different disciplines within ECS, and this blog will be here to present our progress with the design and development of … Continue reading →

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