1. Preliminary Proposal, Stockholm 18 January 2012
Marina Santini

4.  CityTimes is an aggregator. It offers pieces of
local news that can be found on local
newspapers + city life information, such as
restaurants, shops, products, activities for
children (through advertising or information
flows coming from social media).

5.  http://www.santini.se/geotimes/
 Shows recent news in reversed chronological order from different
sources.
 Positions news on the map and diplays the excerpts in the
bubbles.
When users browse another page, the news and the map change
accordingly and the markers on the map are built dynamically
 Examples of Social Media Potential
 Information flows from other websites (for ex, through Twitter)
 Connection to social networks (ex, Like and Follow)
 Local ads
 Google AdSense
 Basically all kind of local information can be included in this kind of
website.

6.  WP interface
 WP API
 Personal code

8.  Template tags (ex: the_title(), the_permalink(),
etc.)
 Handy!

9.  the visualization of the map with the markers.
 the storage of the full article in the database
and its visualization, and other functions .
 WARNING: No refactoring has been applied
yet, so the code contains duplications.


10.  Automatically download RSS feeds from
newspapers at regular intervals (plug-in)
 Automatically tag RSS feeds with locations
(plug-in)
 Based on the location tags, markers are shown
on a map. Marker’s info windows show the
RSS feed located in that part of the city. When
no location are mentioned in the RSS feed text,
the default location is the neighborhood of the
local newspaper (my code)

11.  When clicking on a single post, the user will
see the locations contained in the post on the
map, and has the possibility of reading the
extended version of the article and then the
full article in the newspaper website (my code)

12. The string "slussen, stockholm, sweden"
returns many different locations
 Result Address: Slussen T-bana, Stockholm urban
area, Sweden
 Result Address: Östra Slussgatan, Stockholm urban
area, Sweden
 Result Address: Hammarby Slussväg, 118 60
Stockholm, Sweden

13.  Lia’s Geotimes’ website has not yet a mobile
version.
 Wordpress mobile has been released recently

15. GTRO can be saved on the home screen (like a
native app) and started directly from the
mobile.
1) Find Directions
2) Optimize Routes
3) Store My Locations
4) Find Products on the map
 (GTRO2) http://www.santini.se/gtro2/

19.  iOS native apps
 . iOS apps resemble the built-in applications on iOS-
based devices in that they reside on the device itself
and take advantage of the features of the iOS
environment.
 Web Content
 Web content is hosted by a website that people visit
through their iOS-based device
 Web apps
 Optimized web pages
 Compatible web pages

20.  I am inclined to think that the "web-based app"
way is the best way to go. But, of course, it
depends...
 This choice might be a little limited at present, but
emulation frameworks (e.g. iWebKit5) or special libraries
(e.g JQuery Mobile) are growing fast. Handy with “Add
to Home Screen” to access the web app directly, just like a
native app.
 In general, it is possible and fast to create a good
web app without going native. Additionally, it is
much easier to capitalize on a web app (in terms of
reuse on different platforms) rather than on a
native app, I think.

21.  In this project, I overlooked that ”APPS RESPOND
TO GESTURES, NOT CLICKS”. I overlooked the
gestural context and I focussed on the features.
 Designing an app is different from designing an website
because an app require s a different behaviour, a
different posture, a different manuality. An app must be
thought as an app from the beginning, and not adapted
along the way.
 It is not only a matter of ”STYLING” (colors, round
corners, all the JQTouch stuff).
 It is a matter of human-mobile interaction!

23.  Move from GoogleMaps V2 to GoogleMaps V3
 Speed up the map visualization
 Create an automatized colored classification function, so user
can visually identify the type of news they are interested in (ex,
sport, politics, crime, fashion, etc.)
 Create a computational advertising function, where the ads
relevant to news locations (ex, local shops, local cinema, etc.) are
automatically displayed, and not manually put up.
 Create a automatic comment analysis function to identify users’
problems, orientations, sentiments, opinions and attitudes.
 Study more the target user group in order to see if CityTimes’
information architecture matches the audience’ needs (usuability
is ok, I think, because WordPress is very handy for many types
of users).
 Create a CityTimes’ mobile version
 Create two versions of the Route Optimizer application
(website and app) and integrate them with? CityTimes.

24.  The Service:
You can create your own service, managed by
Grannar (for ex), which would offer additional
local information to what you already offer
now. For example, suggestions for local
restaurants and their reputation (through
users’ reviews), where to find a open
pharmacy in the vicinity on Sunday night, etc.

25.  The Blueprint:
you can sell model or create a kind of
franchising model ”powered by CityTimes”, that
can be used as a standlone website or be
appended to the main website. For example,
for tourism and leisure time:
”Visit Stockholm”
(http://www.visitstockholm.com/en/)
”TimeOut ”
(http://www.timeout.com/stockholm/)