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Internet Applications: Mapping the territory

Internet Applications: Mapping the territory. Why map?. To help understand the space of existing applications and the technologies they use. To identify areas of high activity – where the action is. To identify areas of low activity – where there are market gaps.

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Internet Applications: Mapping the territory

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  1. Internet Applications:Mapping the territory

  2. Why map? • To help understand the space of existing applications and the technologies they use. • To identify areas of high activity – where the action is. • To identify areas of low activity – where there are market gaps. • A kind of business intelligence.

  3. Maps have dimensions • A physical map has latitude, longitude and height • Maps have a purpose – geographic, political, historical, energy usage… • Conceptual maps need dimensions too.

  4. Tools for conceptual maps • Structures • Graphical Mindmaps – spider diagrams – Tony Buzan • Formal • Topic maps • RDF • Tools • Graphical • FreeMind • Text • Our Ajax SMS whiteboard • 37Signals WriteBoard • Conceptual • Protégé • Jena

  5. Possible dimensions • Purpose or function • Blog, wiki, social book mark, photo sharing, auction, gambling… • Application architecture • Desktop, web-hosted, Rich Internet Application (RIA), mashup • Implementation technologies • Ajax, J2EE, XQuery, RDBMS.. • …..

  6. Simple SMS example • SMS applications • http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/sms/ • The current Poll • http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/poll2/tally.php%3fpollid=4

  7. AJAX whiteboard • Our Ajax SMS whiteboard

  8. Simple mashup • Flickr/GoogleEarth • Working area • Flickr function • Function: photosharing • Architecture: RIA • Implementation : javascript, php…. • Google Earth • Function: mapping • Architecture: desktop • Implementation : ?? • Keywords • API – Application Programmer Interface • XML – generic markup language • Kml – XML vocabulary used in GoogleEarth • XQuery – XML query language

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