Research

As a group we have decided to spend the next week do some initial research into the following areas:

- Examples of online and offline applications used as address books.
- Advantages and disadvantages of 'cloud' storage.
- Technologies that we may need to implement within our application.
- What our features maybe and how they would work.
- Potential security issues.

Ideas

We have decided to develop the concept of an online address book.

The idea of the application would be to provide an address book that could be shared by, viewed and updated by members of an extended family.

Through secure a secure access point, family members would be able to share and update home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. In practice this would be a very small, tightly controlled social media application.

This application would make it easy to get in touch with relatives who may live all over the world and not regularly stay in touch, and would mean that when a member updates their contact details all participating family members would know.

Initially we have come up with some categories for our database to contain:
- Names
- Phone Numbers
- Address
- Emergency Contact details
- Work numbers
- Thumbnail photo

We have also talked about the idea of having a message board that can be posted to by all family members, and that could be shared over social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

One of the deciding factors in our group choosing to develop this idea is the recent trend toward 'cloud' storage of data and the benefits that this can bring.

Ideas