Status Update for April 1st (the one missing)

This Week: 

• We fixed more bugs in the classification algorithm
• Added more pages to the wiki
• We kept expanding our training set to make the classification more accurate
• Watched videos and read about developing a Windows 7 application
• Started coding the part that will crawl our own wiki

Current Status:

• Our classification algorithm now works much better. We want to include several more features in the website before we start developing the app.

Next Week:

• Finish crawling the wiki and giving links to it in our website
• Add more company pages to the wiki
• Expand our training set 
• Make the wiki accessible from the website 

Status Update #11

This Week:

• Links now open in a new tab instead of opening in the same window.
• Once user submits the URL, he gets a confirmation page and an option to go back to the results page
• Added “Caution” and “Safe Buy” images on the second page i.e. the results page.
• The website now loads in seconds, even on mobile platform.
• Added summary of Results section.
• Ethicheck motto statement (Changing lives through technological innovation): Changed color to blue, based on the survey feedback
• Added a "Go back to Homepage" button on the results page, based on feedback received from one of the users.
• Users can now start a new search on the second page (results page)
• Text box to submit user URLs has been moved to the bottom of the page within the user URLs section.
• Moved all data to the Cisco Server

Current Status:

The website has been fully functional since last week. Currently tweaking the website based on user suggestions and trying to add new features.

Next Week:

• Getting the common gateway interface setup on the Cisco Server.
• Adding more information into our wiki.
• Bug fixes for some companies - Creative Technology, Philips etc.

Status Update #10

User URL's feature

User submitted links

This Week:

• We added a new feature so now users can add relevant URL's to the website and other users can see them
• Users can also access our wiki from the website in order to create a non-existent page or to add information to an existent one
• We added more companies to our wiki
• We watched several videos about building apps in android 
• Result links now open in a new tab
• Added images to the results page
• The website now loads in second, even on mobile platform

Current Status:

• Our website is now fully functional. 
• After talking to Dr. Hammond about it we decided we are not developing the app as it will be too time consuming and we want to be able to focus more on the website. 

Next Week:

• Add a summary of the results at the top of the website (example: "icon of thumbs up" 5 "icon of thumbs down" 4)
• When users want to add a URL we will redirect them to another html page that will ask them for title, url, and classification. We will do this in order to classify the users links as well.
• Allow users to state whether a link is correctly classified or not
• Transfer the website to the NAS server  

Status Update #9

This Week:

• We are now crawling our own wiki! So we are giving links to our own wiki as part of the results. Also, if the company page does not exist in our wiki we provide a link for people to create it if they want to.
• We added many more company pages to our wiki.
• We expanded our training set, and now the results are much more accurately classified.

Current Status:

• Our website is now fully functional. We are beginning to look into developing an android app.  

Next Week:

• After deciding to develop an android app instead of a wp7 app we will start reading and watching tutorials about it.
• Develop the last feature for the website: to allow users to share links of relevant information.
• After the last feature is done we will concentrate completely on the android app for the next couple of weeks.