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CoffeeShop. An RSS reader for the community. Steve Stein Garrett Wu. What is CoffeeShop?. 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).
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CoffeeShop An RSS reader for the community Steve Stein Garrett Wu
What is CoffeeShop? • 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 can you do with it? • 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? • Client-Server Architecture: Server-side Client-side Web server Web browsers Users CoffeeShop Internet CoffeeShop Datacenter
How? • Searching for feeds: Users CoffeeShop Google News Reuters Joe’s Blog Add feeds Search for feeds RSS Feed DB
How? • Becoming a fan: AI Journal RSS Feed I like AI Subscribes to I love AI Me Peter Norvig
How? • Becoming a fan: AI Journal RSS Feed I like AI Subscribes to I love AI Me I like Peter Norvig Peter Norvig
How? • Becoming a fan: AI Journal RSS Feed I like AI Subscribes to I love AI Fan of Me I like Peter Norvig Peter Norvig
How? • Becoming a fan: AI Journal RSS Feed I like AI Subscribes to I love AI Fan of Interesting Articles Me I like Peter Norvig Peter Norvig
Who will use CoffeeShop? • Target audience: • People who use RSS • Benefits over other readers: • 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).