Monthly Archives: March 2011

All about timing – response to Jonny’s replies for my questions and proposal

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Larry Lan

All about timing. I think the idea of being part of decentralisation is a little bit early and optimistic for our system. I agree that monopoly (such as Facebook) will be replaced someday by a democratic system but we’re not … Continue reading →

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Week 7

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Sumair

This week we discussed the status of activities that has been done and it was decided that in the next meeting, the easter work should be decided . It was also decided that the scope of the project must be … Continue reading →

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Proposal: Two part prototype

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

I propose that rather than the simple idea with started with (tagging any image anywhere as long as you use the etags javascript library/plugin) we instead separate this into two parts. The decentralised data store (called… etags) which could act … Continue reading →

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OAuth

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

With so many servers running independently of each other on the etags network, there needs to be a way to give a server permission to access parts of a user’s social networking profile, without handing over the entirety of a … Continue reading →

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A proposal for a decentralised image tagging service

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Jonny
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How can we make better use of tags?

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Larry Lan

1. How can we make better use of tags? With eTag vision pretty defined, another question comes up, how can we make better use of these tags consumers collaborate. Tagging systems use descriptive keywords to mark up webpages for future … Continue reading →

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Proposed Architecture

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jonny

(Note that this is proposed before we have completed the research on linked data – so this is subject to change) This first thing to notice is that there are many eTags servers in existence – the “official” one existing … Continue reading →

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Week 6

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Jonny

This week we were joined by Web Scientist Phil Waddell as a “critical friend” (basically someone to provide an unbiased opinion of the project… give ideas which we might not have thought of… etc…). His main contribution was questioning the … Continue reading →

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Use Case

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Jonny

Show above is the first use case diagram for etags which shows that a visitor needs to be able to View, Add, and Remove tags, and also view images of a visitor, while a site owner needs to be able … Continue reading →

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Mockups

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Jonny

This is an attempt to roughly show the typical flow of the application This shows a user visiting a blog. This blog has no association with tag4fun except that they have chosen to use the etag software on their site … Continue reading →

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