The basis is a JavaScript widget that users can paste into any web page that allows them to post that page directly to twitter with a tinyURL already in place. The benefit of a JavaScript widget is that it can be made into a Greasemonkey script for any site, so the site itself doesn’t need to implement it for users to be able to take advantage of it.

The example shows it on Flickr.

The tinyURL is automatically included into the 140 character limit and there is a counter to show how many characters are left.

There needs to be some thought on whether the user should have access to the link information or if it should be a non-editbale function.

The user will obviously need to sign into their Twitter account but the Twitter API allows this fairly easily. How and where the user does that needs more investigation.

The presentation was helpful and provided valueable feedback about what to concentrate on and what to avoid.

The project is about photo sharing. The best ways to do it and what areas need to be addressed. The presentation uses Flickr as a base for example and comparison but the principles and concepts that come out of this will hopefully be able to be used by any sharing site.

More presentation slides to follow.

Download the presentation as a pdf here.

The feedback suggested that expansion of the user profile included would be beneficial and to include some of the detailed infomration used in the previous presentation.

Today was spent working on the milestone plan to show deadlines and what should be worked on when. This should hopfeully allow the project to run smoothly… if it is followed.

The theme is data organisation and navigation which has been focussed to digital media and so far has been limited to the online environment.

For the presentation today the media selected was images and portrayed as ‘the life of a photo’ and a side-by-side case study was conducted for Picasa, Flickr and Facebook with regard to uploading and editing.

Post-it notes show what features each site has so common themes could be established. This also allows for a contrast between them detailing the differences.

The feedback from the presentation suggested that the focus needed to be more broad and look at profiles of users of the systems such as a Flickr Pro user. This will refine what it is the project aims to look at.

The answer then is to profile a Flickr pro user and their ‘life of a photo’. What do they use Flickr? How do they use Flickr? This is the approach that needs to asserted before the project can enter fully into detailed analysis such as what was presented today.

Click the image to view the set in Flickr.