2006 China Party Now! - A Mashup Application Using Web AIM

China Eric Wang Introduction  Party Now! is a Social Network Application for people initialing and participating in parties  People can: View parties available View hot party babies and hot party videos Initial a party proposal Go along with a party proposal View the shared file upload by guys in a same party proposal and their blog RSS Chat with the guys in a same party proposal through Live Chat (using two widgets, Buddy List and Chat Room, powered by Web AIM ) Get help with others to find how exactly to go to the party place through Route Pointer (a widget pointing the road mark to a remote partner, also leveraging the Web AIM to transport data)

China Eric Wang Main Page Design Available Party Groups High Light Party Calendar Hot Party Babies Party Map & The Party Videos Google Calendar Flickr Google Map YouTube

China Eric Wang Party Rooms Buddy List (Web AIM Powered) Party Name and Activities Shared & Recommended Related Video and Pictures Live Chat Room & RSS Reader (Web AIM Powered) Add Route Pointer

China Eric Wang Design of Live Chat  When a guy initials a party proposal a new page AIM user related to this web page is automatically created, and whenever this page is visited by anybody the page’s AIM will automatically log in as a chat room for all the visitor and guys in the Buddy List  Any guy who goes along with the party proposal will be automatically added to the buddy list of the page AIM and shown on the Buddy List on the party room page, and a group of this party is also built up in the guy’s AIM  Any visitor of this page can talk to the guys already in the party proposal via Chat Room which leverage the page’s AIM and also can talk to them personally via Buddy List

China Eric Wang  Problem to solve The way to go to the party place The driven route, the shortest, the fastest… How to user the public transportation to go to the party place Some time the way is complicated within a block or even within a building Usage of Route Pointer

China Eric Wang Usage of Route Pointer User A: route pointerUser B: route viewer Live Chat Room & RSS Reader (Web AIM Powered) Route Pointer Party Place Go There Point Way Live Chat Room & RSS Reader (Web AIM Powered) Route Pointer Go There Point Way How can I get to the party place?

China Eric Wang Usage of Route Pointer User A: route pointerUser B: route viewer Go There Point Way Go There Point Way Point my place on the map and click on the Go There Button See the question and the asker’s location Point out the route on the map by click on the turn point and then click on the point Way button See the whole route on the map

China Eric Wang Design of Route Pointer Route Pointer Transportation: Web AIM Data Service: Google Map/Yahoo Traffic Map Data Route Data & Script

China Eric Wang Some high level functions of RP  getMap()  sendRoute()  performRoute()  recordRoute() And the sendRoute() will call Web AIM API to perform its job.