Social Feed Reader - Specification of a prototype

ISBN-13: 9783640388141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 34 str.

Alrik Degenkolb

Opis

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 2,0, Technical University of Chemnitz, course: term paper writing, language: English, comment: The comment the supervisor was "due to some deficiencies in quotiation and formal issues only a 2.0" without a candidate for a 1.0., abstract: Management of information is gaining rising importance in knowledge intensive projects. Many information sources in the web provide feeds for easy accessibility. While there are a variety of software tools for personal feed consumption, collaborative approaches are still rare. This research project focuses on the theoretical aspect of feeds and their technical background like Atom and RSS. Furthermore it gives an overview about the historical development and intention of feeds and how it is used today. It also provides an overview about related research projects and existing tools. The paper concludes with an ideal social feed reader using common principles of social software, like tagging, social networking, social recommendation and microblogging.