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Web Technologies – Prof. Dr. Ulrik Schroeder – WS 2010/111The slides are licensed under a

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Overview Motivation

System essentials

Technologies used

Technology details

Demo

Movie

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Motivation

Use the community intelligence of RWTH CS students

Guide the freshmen into selecting courses they like

Provide first hand experience about studying at RWTH

Aachen

Share ideas and interests

Share academic resources

Connect people

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System essentials

Utilizes the Facebook API

User management handled by Facebook

Explicitly ask the user for the information

used from Facebook

Create a profile with academic data

Create a resources pool

Search for people, courses and resources

Offer completely personalized content

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Technologies used for development

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Technology details

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Document structure

Nice design and layout format

Enhance user experienceShow attractive forms

Paginate tables

Data storageDynamically generated

personalized pages

Single Sign OnGraph API

Facebook servicesSocial Plugins• Like button

• Activity Feed• Comments

Data model

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Web Services We use Facebook web services

We will let them use our web services (JSON)

Incorporate resources of user’s profile into Facebook profile

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Challenges

Free hosting and Facebook

Learn PHP fast

Overcome MySQL limitations

Learn to write less and do more with jQuery

Utilize the user’s public Facebook information into the

website

Combine everything together and make it work

Manage different schedules of team members

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It’s demo time!

Either it goes fine or

we come off at the bottom!

http://www.rwth-faceacademy.de/

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It’s show time!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xego67023fI