Donnerstag, 5. April 2007

Prototype Usecase: linking time information in blog entries

For starting things its always good to have one simple but useful usecase to hang in. This forces yourself to look from the users point of view instead of getting lost into technical geek experimentation (i always like those discussions btw..)..

So here it is:
Link time related information in blog entries
  1. You write a blog entry and mention a certain date/time you are doing something, attending an event. Possibly your graduation party, your birthday party, your favourite music band gig whatever.. most important: you have something linked to a decent point in time.
  2. You open a second tab, browse to worldcalendarproject.com
  3. You will be immediately confronted with four input fields: your email, your blog entry url, a time /date selection and a field for tagging (like you tag your pictures at Flickr for example)
  4. After submitting you'll recieve an email with some information, for now most important: with html fragment prviding a sexy nice symbol linked to your context-page at worldcalendar.com.
    You can drop this fragment next to your time/date related text passage.
Here is what you get from this point:
  • your blogentry is now mentioned on worldcalendar.com; the "google" for time/date related informations.
  • If you tag your city for example, people may catch your entry while looking for events in your city on a certain date/time.
  • You don't need to register, because the email you recieve is your key to your entries made with this email.
  • You always find your entries just hitting the personal calendar link in your email (remember: this is your key)
  • Of cause, sharing calendars from buddies and team mates is not far away from here
  • Most important: blog entries (and news entries in general) are now linked and arranged on a single worldwide timeline

Please comment if you have oppinions, contributions or/and hints for this whole idea.
I will followup this blog entry with more about the technical progress, implementation details.

If you have a good name for the whole thing, please tell me about it! I am still looking for a good one. (worldcalendar is.. yeahh.. not sexy)

cheers,
Toni

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