An Auction Notifier Gadget

Daniel Ephrath & Oren Yam

"I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it." Thomas Edison

Ever felt frustrated when you had to refresh a web page in an auction site every 2 minutes prior to its end?

Ever wanted to stay up-to-date in the info of an auction while playing a game or even reading the news?

Ever wished you could be alerted when you were outbid in any of your multiple auctions?

Ever wished someone would’ve notified you that the new iPhone is up for sale, before it went out of auction?

And What about being able to manage 4 auctions without the constant page switching?

Alerting when newly added auctions of the user’s interest requires automatic search and select system algorithm.

Alerting of changes in the bids may require the use of AJAX and RSS.

Storing several history products for each user will be implemented by a database of products.

Managing auctions for multiple products requires a database of “Buy/Sell product”, located on a server.

From the palette, we choose a product to buy/sell), receive information about it, and can place a bid on it.Automatic alerts for changes in auctions

Search tab of the gadget; a user can choose a result to the list/ bid on it or if he wants more results, click on “add remind!”

A list of history and ”reminder” items for view