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Author Archives: Jonny
The Pitch
After a whole load of hard work and preparation. Our project culminated in a 10 minute pitch + 10 minute Q&A session last week. You can see the results below (in two parts because of the 10 minutes limit on … Continue reading
Week 13
This update is a week late due to exams. Last week we had two meetings, the first to plan for the presentation and assign the final blog posts which need to be made, and the second to practice the presentation … Continue reading
About Last Night
After its public launch at the pitch last week, I feel it is now appropriate to post the first ever advert for taggr. It tells the story of Katie waking up after a night on the town, she met a … Continue reading
Facebook Privacy Concerns
This post is being made, not particularly as an attack on Facebook, as Myspace had the same sort of problems when it was the biggest player, and we believe any company which rises to such heights will be a risk … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis of existing similar tools, News Round-Up, Proposals
Tagged etags, facebook, myspace, open, power, privacy, taggr, terms of service
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To SQL or not to SQL?
The first version of the prototype (running on this website) used MySQL to store the tags. This was fine but called for a much more complicated layout when we began to deal with multiple accounts, some people having just one … Continue reading
State of the prototype(s)
Throughout the project as we experimented with different ideas we have created different prototypes to try them out in an isolated setting. In this post I will go over some of the prototypes created so far. In a future post … Continue reading
Posted in Prototype, Technical Problems
Tagged dragging, position, profile, prototype, social networks
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A Single identity
One problem which I noticed which was missed by the critical friends (and us, until just now) is that there is still no way to tag your friends if they are only on myspace and you are not. As long … Continue reading
Posted in Technical Problems
Tagged address book, cross-domain, Decentralisation, friends
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Establishing ownership of a domain
In order to allow a site owner to control settings about tagging on their site/images, we first need to establish who they are. To do this we decided to follow the same model used by Google Apps and a number … Continue reading
Peer to Peer
Peer-to-peer is “The sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems” (Ding, et al., 2004). This was initially created to allow for higher performance by connecting computers together directly without needing to be coordinated by a central … Continue reading
Posted in Designs, Technical Problems
Tagged cross-domain, Decentralisation, peer to peer, privacy, semantic
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