Transcript Searchlets
Searchlets Customer Paul English Team Member: Satish Vemuri ChanQuan Liu Di Luo Computer Science Departement The University of Massachusetts at Boston Oct 30, 2003 By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Agenda What is Searchlet Concept of Blogging Searchlets User Scenarios Market Value & Risk Analysis Project Management & Development Strategy By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Introduction Internet - a read only medium Searchlets is an open source concept that enables us to use the internet in a read and write mode. Allows users to have a dynamic webpage without a complete knowledge of the tools involved. What is blogging? Blog A blog is a web page made up of usually short and frequently updated posts e.g. a what's new page or a journal posts Blogging is the process of publishing a blog to the web Blog posts are like instant messages to the web A growing area of web publishing Tools for blogging B2 Blogger Diaryland MovableType PHP-Nuke TypePad Live Journal Userland By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Blog it! ----- An example of Blogging Blogging tools Click here to Publish it By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Blogging is cool, but could it be cooler? What Blogger cannot do Can’t search for you Have to manually access each individual page and blog to publish your findings. Cannot designate a schedule for publishing Searchlets Automated searching and blogging of Generic things By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Searchlets Web-based Service Automated searching and publishing Searchlets = Google + Blogger Create a customized search Publish the results at a certain schedule Searchlets is Generic Blogging ! By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Searchlets --------How it works? Create a Customized Search Page Configure Publishing settings Searchlets By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Publish to User’s web page Blahblah.com COOL! My page is updated! User Scenario ------ Who, Why Parts that need dynamic update By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 ? Use Scenario ------ How? By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 User Scenario (cont’) By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 User Scenario (cont’) You are Done! Searchlets will take care of the rest! The application would publish the latest Red Sox news it finds everyday! Wow! By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Advantages Search for any topic of interest Publish the search result any time you want Easy to use No complicated software or technologies required at all! Quick to update your web page Suitable for both personal and business website By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Great Market Value Blogger doing extremely well Registered Active As of LiveJournal 1,121,464 526,535 23 June 2003 Blogger 1,500,000 705,000 9 June 2003 DiaryLand 850,000 400,000 March 2003 The Blogcount.com Estimate: 2.4 to 2.9 million weblogs “ There is a sense that blogging is about to explode in the business area, but who’s brave enough to do it yet? “ ------Weidlich, Thom. The Corporate Blog Is Catching On. New York Times, June 22, 2003 Great Market Value (Cont’) Generic Blogging invariably the next big thing A tool based on Blogging that provides ease of use Small Business Blogging Open source rocks!!! By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Risk Analysis High Risk - High Benefit Project Abstract conceptual work Check on the scope Security concerns By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Gooblors – A Reliable Team An elite team that guarantees both quality and delivery. Satish Vemuri Team Leader Customer Support Di Luo Technical Support QA Chuanquan Liu Webmaster Documentation Management By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Development Strategy Customer is a team member! Simple design and iterative improvement Weekly meeting and progress report. Weekly update of schedule and to-do list CVS management Code testing and refactoring. By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Summary Searchlets is to develop an easy to use web service that automates the searching and web publishing process A product which has great amount of potential users High risk and high benefits project The Gooblors Team is confident and ready to get the work done By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Questions By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003