Wipley, Social Gaming Platform

This week, our development team has improved FlickrBabel. Most of new functionalities are related to geolocation:

1.- Now you can restrict searches according to a certain location

2.- Fixed a bug related to translations with non english characters

3.- Now, you can see tags and geolocation when displaying the photographies. You can also perform searches by tags clicking on them

4.- Improved the search for phoographies near a certain one

5.- Some visual improvements

The development team continues working hard on Wipley. While, and using spare time, they have performed some improvements on FlickrBabel.

• The GUI is implemented in 2 languages: English and Spanish. However, FlickrBabel uses another 2 languages (German and French) for expanding user queries.
• The result’s interface shows the results photographies but also the translation of the query into the 4 languages it uses internally.
• The results that includes geolocalization, now are marked with a ‘G’, and you can access directly from them to a map where the photo is geolocated.

By the end, now FlickrBabel has a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/flickrbabel) that will be used as “changelog” and also as an aggregator for all the news related to FlickrBabel.

Until now, in the blog we have described Wipley’s goals, and some tools we have coded during the development of Wipley. But we had not presented to the enterpreunship team that is behind the project.

The enterpreunship team (and, until now, developers) of Wipley is formed by Francisco Carrero, Borja Monsajve and José Carlos Cortizo. Those people are lecturers at Universidad Europea de Madrid. From the academic perspective, they had a hughe experience of developing and managing R+D projects, including technology transfer and science difussion. They had formed part of more than 10 research spanish and european R+D projects that used technologies related to Internet, like contents filtering (spam and pornography), recommender systems, semantic web, etc.

Previously, and in some cases in parallel to their academic and research works, they had enterpreunship experience, as they had worked in several companies, and also have founded 3 technology start-ups in the last 10 years.

For more detailed information, each member of the Wipley crew are going to write a post about their personals trajectories and their vinculation to Wipley. We will link those post to this entry:

• Francisco Carrero
• Borja Monsalve
• José Carlos Cortizo

My friends from Wipley are working hard on developing the first prototype. I have been asking for trying some functionality but they don’t let me to go near their workplaces. At least, they gave me some previous designs that they are using to test ideas and select one for developing the final Wipley design.

Here yo have the 3 designs. I hope that you make some critics, tell me what you prefer from each design, etc.

Design 1: Inspired on Facebook. As Facebook is considered by Wipley crew as a reference Social Network, they have tried to modify the Facebook’s desing in order to adapt their colours and style. The design isn’t finished (some parts are cutted and pasted from Facebook) but it allows to see how it could seem.

Design 2: This design is more similar to standard social networks. It is inspired on Moterus and UGame.

Wipley developers says that the first design, as it follows Facebook’s philosophy, is centered on the interaction with your friends. The second one, is oriented to discover new contents not taking care about the authors (if they are friends/contacts or not). They have developed a mixed desing (design 3), with two areas that allows several kinds of interactions (with your friends, to discover new contents, etc.)

I already have my favourite design, so do you?

This week we have finished the design of Wipley business cards and we have sent it for printing to Vistaprint, an online printer that R4P crew recommended us.

We wanted to show some previous designs before in order to receive your feedback but we had no time. We hope to receive your comments about the business cards in order to receive feedback for future designs.