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LeapIn.it uses a REST endpoint for access to the database. This is a design pattern for hypermedia systems, which advocates providing individual resources (e.g., people) with unique URLs, and using those URLs to exchange structured information. HTTP requests can be made to these URLs, where HTTP methods are used to instruct what should happen with attached data, and status codes… Read more →
This post will give a brief overview of how we plan to market LeapIn.it and how we plan to pitch it to investors. Marketing We have planned to produce some video advertising, which will appear on video streaming website, TV and motion billboards. This will consist of a series of adverts which demonstrate the use of LeapIn.it in different situations…. Read more →
In this post, we will design an ontology to describe LeapIn.it with the Semantic Web technology. Through building an ontology, we can provide mechanisms for other people to interrogate the dataset in meaningful ways. Additionally, annotating the data will be helpful when using SPARQL to do some queries later on. We are using the ontology editing environment, Protege 4.3. Class Hierarchy There are… Read more →
LeapIn.it has been designed as a mobile app. This post will give some consideration into how the app will be accessed. As we discussed previously, LeapIn.it will be developed using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This will then be packaged as a native application for iPhone and Android using Apache Cordova. Thus, there will be two forms for LeapIn.it: A website… 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 →
In this post, we will identify three recent relevant news articles about social network found on popular media websites. We will later refer to these for analysis. Social media users migrating to smaller circles (CNN, 24 March 2014) Original article available here. In an age when people are encouraged to collect hundreds of Facebook “friends” and thousands of Twitter followers…. Read more →
This post describes the non-functional requirements of LeapIn.it. 1. Performance Performance is the speed at which content is delivered to users, and how responsive the system is. 1.1. Processing time Interactions with the server which require processing, such as login and requesting thumbnails of images, should take less that three seconds. 1.2. Response time Over reasonably common internet connection speeds,… Read more →
In this post, we will examine existing virtual world that exist, in order to better understand the how they are designed and used, and the features they commonly have. Drawing on our previous analysis of gaming social networks, we have first identified a number of virtual world social networks and their features. NAME AUDIENCE TAGS Gaia Online general; Anime and… Read more →
In this post, we will analysis some existing systems in order to better understand the how they are designed and used, and the features they commonly have. In this way, we can make our software have some unique features. In the following table, we have identified a number of existing social systems and listed their features. Name Description & Audience… Read more →
Before we discuss ideas for social networks, we’ll briefly explain the motivations behind developing a new social network. Social networks have becoming increasingly important in modern society – they are used to communicate, form relationships and share experiences. Further to this, social networks have become increasingly pervasive with the increased popularity of mobile devices and high-speed internet. This is changing… Read more →
