Workshop 6 Enjoying the Ride: Web framework alternatives, scalability and flexibility

Topic reading from Safari Books Online
Hartl, M & Prochazka, A, (2008). RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails, Pearson Education

Answer:
I have read the Safari Books online. The book is RailsSpace located at CSU Library. (See Diagram-110)
Diagram-110 - RailsSpace in CSU Library


Focus Question
The focus question below provides a way to shape your progress in either team as a common approach to achieving an outcome with the objectives. You get to shape the direction you take in these final workshops, but the focus question helps you get started.
Social networking is a powerful business model made possible by Web 2.0 technologies.
The online textbook called RailsSpace has this focus.
As either a developer or as an IT manager, how can aspects of social networking be applied to the OTBS?

Answer:
Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.
(Wikipedia, 2009)
Our Online Taxi Booking System (OTBS) can make use of Web2.0 technology and social networking. That is, the users who always use taxi service can register in our OTBS system. When a certain number of registered users is obtained, OTBS system can be introduced to some Business Bodies, ISP or mobile service provider, namely, 3G network & iphone network. Like Facebook, MSN and Myradio (in HK), OTBS can then resident at iPhone as a platform. When the registered users want to book taxi, he may just click on the icon in iPhone or in 3G mobile phone.

Reference:
1. Wikipedia (2009). "Web 2.0". Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, Retrieved from URL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0