Freecycle(TM) Mobile - OTA10

#OTA10 Freecycle/Freegle for Mobile Elliot Long Kieran Gutteridge

Themes
Sustainability
Environmental Protection
Social inclusion
Solving Real Problems

Unwanted Stuff... ....goes to landfill

Enter Freecycle

...and Freegle

Freecycle Yahoo group

The rules No Livestock No Trading They’ll never take our “free”dom! Aww...kitties....

Yahoo groups - the problem
Users complain of toooo many emails
No API or RSS feeds
Subscription and first email are moderated
No link between images and messages
No standard for subject lines

The Problem for automation: Subject Lines
What the subject lines should be:
Offered: Brown computer desk (BS5)
Taken: Brown computer desk
Promised: Brown computer desk
Examples of the reality:
Offered : single mattress: Brislington
OFFER : Huge tub of freshly harvested white grapes (Dursley)
Offer: half-height fridge freezer BS8
Promised: Single Mattress: Brislington
offered two wooden chairs
Offer: Modern Tropical Fish Tank
Taken: White tropical Fish tank

App + Fuzzy logic Outgoing App (iPhone) Incoming App (Android) Server-Side Email Monitor and Push (Perl) Ericsson Labs - Mobile Push API XML-RPC Takes a photo, reverse-geocodes it and produces a properly formatted email to send to yahoo groups, e.g. “ Offered: green rocking chair (BS5)“ Accepts keyword requests from Incoming app Monitors email account via POP3 for new offers Searches subject lines for keywords When found, sends call to Push API Lets users add/remove keywords Turn on/off push listener Shows dialogs when items arrive via push Lets user show results on google map Push listener

“ Outgoing” App (to submit data)
Allows constrained choices to make searching easier
Assisted location lookup

Incoming App to review and alert
Add a search term to be alerted for
Enable push notifications
Display matching items on map

Suggested future development
Matching of Offered+Taken messages (perhaps using fuzzy text matching)
Image support
(how i don’t know)
Migration to a RESTful API
(ditch Yahoo groups!)
More devices and/or mobile web
(bring it to everyone)

Freecycle(TM) Mobile - OTA10

by elhypnotoad on Sep 11, 2010

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