Desktop Social Networking Integration

Project Name

Desktop Social Networking Integration

Project Description

Alter The Coop experimental extension so it uses generic API instead of Facebook specifically; put the generic API in the "desktop data engine" also used by BigBoard (and hopefully other desktop apps in the future). Resources: RH online desktop team.

Project Leader(s)

Timothy Joseph Duavis

Project Details

Scope

Based on conversations (IRC and Email) with project stakeholders for determining the scope and requirment the following ideas for direction were suggested:

1. twitter status
   • issue is twitter is dependent on facebook api, but api is lacking
2. to use another facebook service to the coop
3. exchange service
4. to treat "the desktop" as another service from coop's perspective
   • query desktop for coop merging from the desktop is the set of people displayied in BigBoard.
   • query desktop for coop merging (automatically?) from the desktop is account names ("eg. someone's Twitter account. I imagine Coop would want to keep this optional, only using the special desktop info when it's available." - quoted from Havoc's email)

Stakeholders

Name	Title	Role	Contact
Dave Humphrey	Professor of DPS909	Evaluate Progress	To request publishing
Myk Melez	Mozilla Developer	Technical Expert	To request publishing
Havoc Pennington	Developer	Technical Expert	To request publishing

Schedule

Task / Phase	Status	Start Date	Due Date
1.0 Create Requirements	In Progress	Sep 22, 2007	Sep 28, 2007
	1.1 Draft (Include scope, features and use cases)
	1.2 Send for feedback
	1.3 Update based on feedback
2.0 Research	In Progress	Sep 18, 2007	On-going
	2.1 Research Facebook API
		2.1.1 Create account
		2.1.2 Build / Run sample Facebook Applications
	2.2 Research Twitter API
		2.2.1 Build / run twitter
			2.2.1.1 Build / run twitter on AIM
			2.2.1.2 Build / run twitter on Facebook applications
			2.2.1.3 Build / run twitter on Popular third party application
			2.2.1.4 Build / run twitter on Popular fan created application
			2.2.1.5 Build / run twitter on phone device
	2.3 Research Bigboard
		2.3.1 Build Bigboard

Resources

• The Coop
• Mozila Labs - The Coop
• BigBoard
• Twitter API Doc

Project News

• Claimed Sept 17, 2007.
• Updated Project Details; posted current working project schedule. - Sept 22, 2007