Featured Web Project: UCCDating.com
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007I’ve been working away on UCCDating.com since September 2006, creating a software application called AcademicAmore. The pitch goes like this:
- AcademicAmore is a tool to create a social networking community, similar to (and in some areas, more feature-rich than) MySpace, Bebo or Facebook. The differentiating factor is that it is designed to be used in a locality - re-introducing the real-world factors of social interaction.
- The real-world angle of the project is controlled by a fully customisable interface, a wiki-style guide to interests and places in the locality of the community, and an events calendar provided to enable users to meet-up at an event that interests them. All of this can be tied in with a Google map to give a visual guide to who and what is going on in the community.
- Users can create their own avatar, similar to WeeMees or SecondLife.
