In designing our social network, we will consider how we intend to facilitate communication between individuals. One important consideration is: who will be communicating to who? This post will identify who people will interact with and why. One way we can study this is by considering the models of homophily and heterophily. Rogers and Bhowmik (1958) discuss the concepts of… Read more →
The name of our social network is LeapIn.it. There are several motivations behind this name: It describes our social network. Our social network allows people to go to virtual rooms to discuss real life things. Using a smartphone camera, a person can scan something they’re interested and “leap in it” to interact with others about it. It’s a short and… Read more →
During our development of the LeapIn.it prototype, we have used a number of design patterns, libraries and API’s. This post will give an overview of the most crucial of these. Server The server is responsible for creating a REST interface for database access. As mentioned in our post on architecture, we have chosen to use RedBeanPHP to communicate with the… Read more →
