Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg

• Albert Taruc
• Tony Schuster
• You Lin
• Darren Chang

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Client Overview

• Project Gutenberg
• (http//www.gutenberg.org)
• Free eBook distribution site
• Produced by tens of thousands of volunteers
• Founder, Michael Hart
• CEO, Professor Greg Newby

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Client Issues

• Early meetings with Michael Hart
• Very motivational
• Scheduling conflicts
• No clear intention for group
• Project Proposals
• Late Start

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BookQuotes Project

• Got access to a Project Gutenberg server
• Registered our Application with Facebook
• Made the BookQuotes application minimally
  functional

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Readingroo.ms

• Stores our database tables
• Users
• Quotes
• Tells Facebook how to render our application

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Facebook

• Manages adding/removing users on their end
• Has various API queries for users
• GetFriends
• Friends.GetAppUsers
• Provides a markup language(FBML) for making
  standard pages

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Functionality

• Displays Quote in Profile
• Manage options from Canvas Page

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Goals for Next Semester

• Improve the adding quotes functionality
• Allow users to add quotes directly on Facebook
  rather than offsite
• Spam Filter
• Slow search on Gutenberg server
• Using Google

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Goals for Next Semester

• Additional social features
• Sending a quote to a friend
• Voting on quotes

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Goals for Next Semester

• Display of Quotes
• Add more books to database
• Filter quotes based on keywords, author, title,
  etc.

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About Bit Torrent

• One of the most popular peer-to-peer download
  protocols
• Easy to use
• Good for downloading large files

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Bit Torrent so far

• Designed bit torrent download page
• Added 8 categories and 273 eBooks in total

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eBook Files

• There are many versions of each eBook
• We pick the best available version
• We also include audio versions of the book (MP3)

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Goals for Next Semester

• Finish adding all eBook categories
• Make a Chinese version of the download pages
• Improve the BT Guidelines