By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Searchlets Customer Paul English Computer Science Departement The University of Massachusetts at Boston Oct 30, 2003 Satish Vemuri ChanQuan Liu Di Luo Team Member:

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Agenda Concept of Blogging Searchlets User Scenarios  What is Searchlet  Market Value & Risk Analysis  Project Management & Development Strategy

Introduction Internet - a read only medium Searchlets is an open source concept that enables us to use the internet in a read and write mode. Allows users to have a dynamic webpage without a complete knowledge of the tools involved.

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 What is blogging? Blog e.g. a what's new page or a journal posts Blog posts are like instant messages to the web A blog is a web page made up of usually short and frequently updated posts Blogging is the process of publishing a blog to the web A growing area of web publishing Tools for blogging B2 Blogger Diaryland Live Journal MovableTypePHP-Nuke TypePad Userland

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Blog it! An example of Blogging Blogging tools Click here to Publish it

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Blogging is cool, but could it be cooler? Can’t search for you Have to manually access each individual page and blog to publish your findings. Cannot designate a schedule for publishing What Blogger cannot do Wouldn’t it be good if some tool can help me search my interests and post it to my web page periodically? Searchlets Automated searching and blogging of Generic things

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Searchlets Searchlets = Google + Blogger Web-based Service Create a customized search Publish the results at a certain schedule Searchlets is Generic Blogging ! Automated searching and publishing

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Searchlets How it works? Publish to User’s web page Create a Customized Search Page Configure Publishing settings Blahblah.com COOL! My page is updated! Searchlets

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 User Scenario Who, Why ? Parts that need dynamic update

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Use Scenario How?

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 User Scenario (cont’)

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 You are Done! The application would publish the latest Red Sox news it finds everyday! Wow! Searchlets will take care of the rest! User Scenario (cont’)

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Advantages Search for any topic of interest Publish the search result any time you want Easy to use No complicated software or technologies required at all! Quick to update your web page Suitable for both personal and business website

Great Market Value Blogger doing extremely well “ There is a sense that blogging is about to explode in the business area, but who’s brave enough to do it yet? “ Weidlich, Thom. The Corporate Blog Is Catching On. New York Times, June 22, 2003 RegisteredActiveAs of LiveJournal1,121,464526,53523 June 2003 Blogger1,500,000705,0009 June 2003 DiaryLand850,000400,000March 2003 The Blogcount.com Estimate: 2.4 to 2.9 million weblogs

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Open source rocks!!! Generic Blogging invariably the next big thing Small Business Blogging A tool based on Blogging that provides ease of use Great Market Value (Cont’)

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Risk Analysis Security concerns High Risk - High Benefit Project Check on the scope Abstract conceptual work

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Gooblors – A Reliable Team An elite team that guarantees both quality and delivery. Satish Vemuri  Team Leader  Customer Support Di Luo  Technical Support  QA Chuanquan Liu  Webmaster  Documentation Management

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Development Strategy Customer is a team member! Simple design and iterative improvement Weekly meeting and progress report. Weekly update of schedule and to-do list CVS management Code testing and refactoring.

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Summary The Gooblors Team is confident and ready to get the work done Searchlets is to develop an easy to use web service that automates the searching and web publishing process High risk and high benefits project A product which has great amount of potential users

By Gooblors Team, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, October 30, 2003 Questions