CoffeeShop Steve Stein Garrett Wu An RSS reader for the community
What is CoffeeShop? In Vienna, the coffee shop plays an important role in Viennese culture and tradition, where it is completely normal for a customer to linger for hours and study the omnipresent newspaper (Wikipedia). CoffeeShop is an RSS reader that takes advantage of the most important part of the web – the community.
What is an RSS reader?
What can you do with it? Search and subscribe to feeds, then use tags to organize them. Flag “interesting” articles for later review. Discover users who have similar interests. Become somebody’s fan – subscribe to the articles they find interesting. Express your opinions by commenting on articles for the world to see. Add triggers – find out immediately when any new article is about. Since it’s web based, do your reading from any web-accessible device.
How? Client-Server Architecture: Internet Users Web browsers Web server CoffeeShop Datacenter CoffeeShop Server-side Client-side
How? Searching for feeds: Users CoffeeShop Google News Reuters Joe’s Blog RSS Feed DB Add feeds Search for feeds
How? Becoming a fan: Peter Norvig Me I like AI I love AI AI Journal RSS Feed Subscribes to
How? Becoming a fan: Peter Norvig Me I like AI I love AI AI Journal RSS Feed Subscribes to I like Peter Norvig
How? Becoming a fan: Peter Norvig Me I like AI I love AI AI Journal RSS Feed Subscribes to I like Peter Norvig Fan of
How? Becoming a fan: Peter Norvig Me I like AI I love AI AI Journal RSS Feed Subscribes to I like Peter Norvig Fan of Interesting Articles
Who will use CoffeeShop? Target audience: People who use RSS Benefits over other readers: Easier to find interesting and relevant articles: Article/feed suggestions Tagging “Interesting” articles distributed to fans Leverages community participation See what others have to say (comments) Organize articles by popularity (community buzz).