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Major Project Finished!

I have finally handed in my finished major project today. For those that do not know, the basic idea is to help users keep track of their friends on other social web sites in one central place.

Features include:

  • Automatic updates from your friends
  • Support for many sources including Flickr, YouTube and Digg
  • Various interfaces including a visual lifestream and RSS feeds
  • Friends system
  • User profiles with avatars
  • Favourites

More information, including the proposal and evaluation documents can be found on the project page.

Feel free to sign up and use the web site by going to: http://www.trakr.co.uk/

Posted: 15th May 2008 10:20

Trakr Update: 13th May 2008

For the past week I have been working mostly on writing my documentation which is now almost complete. I have also been hard at on the web site itself fixing a few minor bugs that were found and continuing to work on the flash view of data which is now called the "Visual Lifestream". This is progressing well and user feedback has been positive. It will shortly be available on Trakr for other users to use and enjoy.

All is on track for the hand in on Thursday which I am looking forward to!

Posted: 13th May 2008 18:39

Trakr Update: 6th May 2008

This week I have made a lot of progress and have been working every spare moment I have on it. Here is what's been achieved this week:

  • Auto generated web site thumbnail previews for del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and RSS feeds
  • Album art for Last.fm loved tracks using the Amazon API
  • Filtering options so you can limit what sources appear in your dashboard lifestream
  • Normalized update times for sources as some were from different time zones, therefore not showing up in the correct order in lifestreams
  • Added web site field to profiles
  • Updates in lifestreams for profile edits and new friend approvals
  • Contact user form
  • Visual lifestream in Flash has been progressed and is now based on some code from Reflektions miniml which I plan to adapt further by adding more information to each slide, customizing the appearance and adding scroll wheel functionality

I have also discovered that there is no way to get data out of Facebook or MySpace with their current APIs which is disappointing. However, this is something that could be added in the future if they happen improve their APIs.

Posted: 6th May 2008 02:26

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