Development Notes

Development Notes

Overview

For a full overview of the project, see the Proposal.

The first development push on Digital Texts is designed to produce a working prototype application using the Facebook Platform. Facebook offers advantages over competing social networks (Friendster, MySpace, the group organized under Google's OpenSocial), as it is more popular, and has a more mature Development Platform.

Availability

Anyone with a Facebook account may now add Digital Texts 2.0 to their Applications.

Within Facebook, the app currently resides at: http://apps.facebook.com/digitaltexts/

Or, on its own on at: http://dtext2.org

Either URL will redirect you to Facebook to login and add the Digital Texts 2.0 application. The first will then direct you out to the app external to Facebook. The second will load up the app inside the Facebook canvas. The functionality and design are the same either way, so it's just up to your personal preference. I would suggest the external app, as you avoid the overhead of the Facebook interface (and those darned ads).

Current Functionality

Current Status: Version 0.1.4

Create Collections, Texts, and Authors (and automatically add yourself as a Reader on login through Facebook)
Associate Texts with Collections and Authors with Texts
Tag Texts, Collections, and Authors
Browse Tags in multiple formats, and by All, Collection, Author, and Text groups
Browse your own records from Home, and browse others contributions in the Collections, Authors, and Texts sections, or through their Reader profile
Add Collections and Texts added by other Readers to your own
Send Facebook Invites and Notifications to your friends