Progress Update 4/10

Progress:

• cron setup complete and running
• core rewrite
• RSS database parsing
• debugging
• Talked to Charlie

Up Next:

• Turn on submissions
• Testing
• Talk to Martha Broderick
• Finish terms and send to Sean and Rita
• More debugging....
• Timeframes (beta, Paik, Charlie)

Schedule Update

Progress:

• URL matching
• OSS platform setup
• Main site design
• Cross-site POSTing
• User testing
• Command-line PHP tests

Up next:

• Domain & cron setup (Mike)
• Database activation
• Contributor testing
• Meet with Charlie

Schedule update

Progress:

• Split Contributor and User bookmarklets
• Built Contributor interface
• Added Telamon-based controls
• Coded trust metrics
• Added debug mode
• Home page design template
• Database constructed
• URL parsing (begun)

Looking Forward:

• Finish URL parsing, one domain at a time
• Connect database
• Usability testing report on 3/3, followed by feature lock!
• Video production

I did not add more specific promotion details to the schedule because they will be largely dependent on initial contributor uptake. In general, though, I will be depending on word of mouth and press attracted by the technology.

New Bookmarklets

To see what the Re:Poste bookmarklet will be like, drag the links below to your bookmarks bar or right-click and add to bookmarks. You may get a security warning; if so, just click through it. Then go to cnn.com and click on the bookmark. You should see an interface prototype appear on top of the page you have loaded--while this is currently a live interface, it is only loading sample text and is the same no matter where you launch it from. The user version of the bookmarklet is read-only, while the contributor version also has controls for rating the article, rating other contributors' comments, and adding new comments.

This version only works in Internet Explorer for Windows or Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox, Camino, or a recent version of Netscape.)

Re:Poste Contributor

Re:Poste User

DB documentation

Ok, documentation might be too strong a word.

02/12 Update

Misc. link

Icons

I'm thinking about different systems for the informational icons that are attached to posts...in this picture, the column on the left is the system I had initially sketched in. The column on the right is one thought I had for how to do it more efficiently. To tie in with the rest of the visuals, I would vary the background color and the color of the person's shirt. The background color would represent the rating of the post, while the shirt color would be the person's claimed expertise. When you mouse over the person icon, you get the tags you'd have gotten by mousing over the 'T' icon in the previous version.

I'm not sure I like it, but I think it's better in that it is simpler. My only worry is that I'm depending too heavily on color, which is a very qualitative measure in this case...but then, I don't know that that's definitely a bad thing.

Telamon bookmarklet

Current Telamon

Reformatted Schedule

Revised Schedule

Schedule revision, 1/24.

Also, I'm going to be renaming Locrian to Telamon, since he didn't defile any temples or anything like that.