Transcript CoffeeShop

CoffeeShop
An RSS reader for the community
Steve Stein
Garrett Wu
What is CoffeeShop?
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In Vienna, the coffee shop plays an
important role in Viennese culture and
tradition, where it is completely normal
for a customer to linger for hours and
study the omnipresent newspaper
(Wikipedia).
CoffeeShop is an RSS reader that takes
advantage of the most important part of
the web – the community.
What is an RSS reader?
What can you do with it?
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Search and subscribe to feeds, then use tags to
organize them.
Flag “interesting” articles for later review.
Discover users who have similar interests.
Become somebody’s fan – subscribe to the
articles they find interesting.
Express your opinions by commenting on articles
for the world to see.
Add triggers – find out immediately when any
new article is about <insert your interesting topic
here>.
Since it’s web based, do your reading from any
web-accessible device.
How?
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Client-Server Architecture:
Server-side
Client-side
Users
Web server
Web browsers
CoffeeShop
Internet
CoffeeShop
Datacenter
How?
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Searching for feeds:
Users
Google News
CoffeeShop
Reuters
Joe’s Blog
Add feeds
Search for feeds
RSS Feed DB
How?
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Becoming a fan:
I like
AI
AI Journal
RSS Feed
Subscribes to
I love AI
Me
Peter Norvig
How?
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Becoming a fan:
I like
AI
AI Journal
RSS Feed
Subscribes to
I love AI
Me
I like Peter
Norvig
Peter Norvig
How?
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Becoming a fan:
AI Journal
RSS Feed
Subscribes to
I like
AI
I love AI
Fan of
Me
I like Peter
Norvig
Peter Norvig
How?
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Becoming a fan:
AI Journal
RSS Feed
Subscribes to
I like
AI
I love AI
Fan of
Me
I like Peter
Norvig
Interesting
Articles
Peter Norvig
Who will use CoffeeShop?
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Target audience:
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People who use RSS
Benefits over other readers:
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Easier to find interesting and relevant articles:
 Article/feed suggestions
 Tagging
 “Interesting” articles distributed to fans
Leverages community participation
 See what others have to say (comments)
 Organize articles by popularity (community
buzz).