This proposal outlines a capstone project to develop a collaborative online music experience through Facebook Connect. The project would utilize Facebook's user identities, friends, and distribution capabilities to create a web application for publishing and sharing music. So far, the developers have implemented basic music playback and playlist functionality in Adobe Flex connected to a test Facebook integration. Completing the capstone would involve further coding, user testing, business planning, and data analysis. The proposal seeks a faculty sponsor and outlines goals, the current partial implementation, and remaining work needed.

1. Capstone Proposal
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A collaborative, online music experience
through Facebook Connect
Proposal by: Joe Roth and Alex Ehrnschwender
UVA Systems Engineering 2010
9/3/09
* Working title

2. Idea Background
• Facebook is currently the largest online social networking site, with
over 250 million active users
• Facebook recently released the Facebook Connect API, allowing
web developers to utilize user identities, friends, distribution, and
integration

3. Idea Background (cont.)
• Currently, there are many collaborative music environments
available to users
• Some environments are software-based and downloadable
• Others are web-based and use uploading and streaming technology

4. Opportunity
Currently, there is no web application that fuses a collaborative
music program with Facebook, the world’s leading social
networking website

5. Goals
Overall Goal: To implement a web application which draws on user accounts
from Facebook, allows music publication from users, and supports cross-user
listening and other collaborative activities.
Specific Goals:
• e-Commerce planning and projection
• Business plan development
• Full code implementation of application
• Extensive User Acceptance testing
• Release of application by middle of Spring Semester

6. Sponsor Information
Corporate Sponsor:
Faculty Sponsor: Alf Weaver
Professor of Electronic Commerce Technologies
Department of Computer Science
acw@Virginia.EDU

7. Current System Implementation
Currently, Joe has developed a significant portion of the code in Adobe Flex and
implemented on a test web environment:
• The application currently plays music allowing play,
pause, next, and fast forward features.
• Playlist creation supported
• The Facebook Connect feature is currently available
in this environment and successfully links the two
applications.

8. Current Implementation: Home Screen

9. Current Implementation: Login Screen

10. Current Implementation: Facebook Connect

11. Left to Complete Through Capstone
By accepting this project as a capstone, you would let us apply extensive
Systems Engineering methodology. More specifically:
CS101, CS201, SYS202
Extensive coding and integration of a Rich Internet Application to a database and the Web
SYS323
User testing and application of Human-Interface principles
SYS257
Distributed Computer Architecture Modeling, CBMG, Cost projection, etc.
SYS334, APMA312, SYS421
Statistical analysis of user behavior after implementation

12. Q&A
Q: How much of my time would you require for advising this project?
A: Not much at all. We would take you out to lunch bi-monthly for our meetings to
discuss progress.
Q: Aren’t you two already in capstone groups?
A: We are both a part of large teams and do not see ourselves as integral assets
to our current teams. We have also not invested enough time or effort for a switch
to be a problem.
Q: Capstone projects require a client, who is yours?
A: This would mainly be an entrepreneurial venture with users being clients. This
would give us an unparalleled opportunity to set our own goals, develop leadership
skills, and actually own a project.
Q: How would you be graded on this capstone?
A: There are many possibilities for grading based on specific goal deliverables,
user frequency after implementation, etc. If accepted as a capstone, we will
propose a potential grading rubric within a week.

13. Further Questions?
Thanks for your time and consideration!