Blog 2.0

Ketan, Ashwin, Hardik

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Problem Domain

A recent research concluded that - ”Blogs have done very little to enhance the quality of dialogue with the public.”

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Evolution of a Blogger TPB (noun)– The Poor Blogger

1) First Post phase :)

No content. Bubbling Enthusiasm.

2) The First Blow

Nobody reads TPB's blog.

TPB goes on to write something that he thinks has content.

Again nobody reads it.

3) I have better things to do phase!!

:(

4) Somebody stumbles upon TPB's stuff !!

And a passing mention is enough to revive TPB's enthusiasm. A series of posts follows..

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Some Questions..

How many of you post comments after reading a good post?

Can there be a simple way to express what you feel about the post?

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Ever wondered..

Have any of your friends written something similar to your post?

Can you save time by NOT reading boring posts?

Is there a way to recommend good posts?

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State of the art..

Micro Blogging Corporate Blogging

Encourage employees by ”Best Blogger” contest

Group Blogs

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What's required?

A more decisive quest for better contribution Not through advanced algorithms but through human

judgement

A need for more personalized services and enhanced user experience

A better way for social interaction

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Solutions(1)

A convenient way to post comments Voice comments

A simple way to express what you feel about the post

User Ratings

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Solutions(2)

Finding relevant posts Auto-tagged and indexed Posts.

Post Rankings (Intra-Blog) Global Blogger Ranking (Inter-Blog)

Enhanced Corporate Blogging

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System Scope and Implementation

Detection of relevant content across mulitple Blogs

Automatic tagging Sorting posts based on Degree of Relevance Sorting posts based on User Ratings

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System Architecture

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Implementation Details

Front End PHP5

DB MySQL

Web Server Apache

Referred Blog Hosting Services B2evolution, Technorati

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List of Blogs

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Lists of Posts

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Find Similar Posts

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Similar Posts

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Performance Analysis

Focus of Performance Evaluation: Insertion Overhead Cost of finding keywords

Linear Complexity

Retrieval Overhead Overhead of finding matching posts

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Future Work

Integrate with a popular Blog hosting service

More attractive UI Performance Analysis w.r.t. Blog 2.0

hosting Websites Ad Sense Impact Analysis

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Questions?

Acknowledgements – Prof. Ling Liu

Thank You!