POSS: A WebBased Photo Online Service System for Thailand

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POSS A Web-Based Photo Online Service System
for Thailand

• Chakkrit Snae and Michael Brueckner
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• Department of Computer Science and Information
  Technology
• Faculty of Science
• Naresuan University
• Phitsanulok 65000

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Agenda

• Aspects of e-commerce
• Online photo systems
• Situation in Phitsanulok
• POSS
• Architecture
• Features
• Conclusions

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Aspects of e-commerce

• Marketing
• Advertizing
• Promoting
• Selling (offer)
• Buying (contract)
• Payment
• Servicing
• Aftersales

Distribution of products
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Aspects of e-commerce

• Business models
• Brick-and-mortars
• Brick-and-click
• Online
• B2B
• B2C
• C2C (Ebay)

POSS
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Online Photo Systems

• SmugMug (http//smugmug.com)
• Picasa Webalbums (http//picasaweb.google.com)
• flickr (http//flickr.com )
• ......... are more social networks (Web 2.0) than
  professional photo service providers

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Phitsanulok Province

• Area 10,815 km²
• Population 800,000
• Pop. density 73/km²
• Internet use is emerging, even in rural areas via
  post-office kiosks

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POSS Architecture

• Leading guidelines
• simple user interface in Thai
• using web based technologies (PHP scripting)
• (My)SQL
• client/server architecture
• separation of frontoffice and backoffice features

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POSS Architecture
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POSS Features

• Frontoffice features for customers
• register via valid e-mail address
• edit profiles
• add digital photos
• create individual albums
• buy printouts from own photos
• processing photo, such as cut, adjust brightness
  and contrast

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POSS Features
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POSS Features

• Backoffice features for administrators
• send password via encrypted e-mail
• verify e-mail addresses
• manage data in database server
• monitor user activity reports
• check and confirm orders

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Order Placement
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Conclusions

• POSS provides service for rural areas in
  Phitsanulok
• POSS adds value to the widespread digital cameras
• Customers get their photos within three days
  after payment by money order, PayPal, check or
  cash

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Further Work

• Extension of the service to more parts of the
  country
• Adding features for social networks into the
  system
• Setting the system in WSDL (Web Service
  Description Language), allowing the reuse of
  definitions of ports and message formats

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