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Introduction
Internet – largely a read only medium
Searchlets is an open source concept that enables us to use the internet in a read and write mode. Termed by us as generic blogging
Allows users to have a dynamic webpage of desired search results without a complete knowledge of the tools involved.
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
How is Searchlets different?
Can’t search for youHave to manually access each individual page and blog to publish your findings.Cannot designate a schedule for publishing
What Blogger cannot do
Wouldn’t it be
good if some tool
can help me search
my interests and
post it to my web
page periodically? Searchlets
Automated searching and blogging of Generic thingsProvision for scheduled publishing of search results
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Typical Output
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Search and Publish Options
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Development Methodology
eXtreme Programming way!!!
Simple design, small releases, Iterations
Test-driven programming
Coding standardCommunication
Customer feedback at every stepTeam meetings, e-mails
CVS Management
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
What is blogging?Blog
e.g. a what's new page or a journal posts
Blog posts are like instant messages to the web
A blog is a web page made up of usually short and frequently updated posts
Blogging is the process of publishing a blog to the web
A growing area of web publishing
Tools for blogging
B2 Blogger Diaryland Live Journal
MovableType PHP-Nuke TypePad Userland
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Architecture
We
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terfa
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DataBase
MonitorUtilities
RegisterLog inCreate SearchModify Search
EmailClientFTPClientGoogleSearch
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Blog it! ----- An example of Blogging
Blogging tools
Click here to Publish it
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Use the application without registering
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
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, May 12, 2004
Features
Advanced search and publishoptions
Web-based Service
Create a customized search
Publish the results at a certain schedule
Email notification
Google search engine API used to find search results
By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, May 12, 2004
Advantages
Search for any topic of interest
Publish the search result any time you want
Easy to useNo 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, May 12, 2004
Searchlets
Customer Paul English Advisor Ethan Bolker
Computer Science Departement
The University of Massachusetts at Boston May 12, 2004
Satish VemuriChanQuan LiuDi Luo
Team Members:
Great Market Value
Blogger doing extremely well
“ 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
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