Praeda & Co.

The Team

Our team is composed of four senior Computer Engineering students. The members of the team are Gökhan Tüysüz, Cansın Yıldız, Eray Molla and Murat Ongan which aim to create an impressive application that is used by lots of people.

Background

One of the biggest problems of online social networks is that it makes people more asocial. They discourage people to go outside and meet their friends. Therefore it is a good idea to combine the advantages of social networks with daily activities. Although there are some social networks that attempt to do this, most of them are not successful on mobile area.

As known, the musical taste of people is important to decide where to go for having fun. Moreover the style of the other people in a place is another important factor for this decision. Even though there are some web sites providing some services to inform people about the quality of an entertainment place in terms of musical style, none of them offers live services to follow which kind of songs are playing in a place and what kind of people are inside this place right now.

The Project – MuzikMekan

MuzikMekan project aims to offer solutions for deficiencies stated at Background Information. Praeda & Co. is going to develop a social network which can be used on mobile devices. The main goal of this social network is to help people for deciding where to go for entertainment. Our system is going to provide people with live information about a place which makes our social network different than others. It will enable their users to meet new people that have similar tastes in terms of music and entertainment. Additionally the system is going to inform place owners about what kind of people is inside their place, so they can play songs according to visitors’ tastes. The system is going to achieve this by using geological information of users which comes from GPS devices or triangulation and musical information which comes via Last.fm.

MuzikMekan project firstly aims to develop a flexible infrastructure that enables any client program to interact with the system easily. The development team intends to achieve this by focusing on developing infrastructure as web services. And also the team has to show the capabilities of the system by implementing a client application. Therefore, after implementing the infrastructure, the team will develop an Android application that utilizes all the capabilities of the mainframe.

The project will provide the users with following advantages:

Why Customers Use

• Learning the musical history of a venue and following what kind of music is being played in a venue right now.
• Tracking what kind of people inside a venue.
• Getting suggestions for new places according to musical taste of the user.
• Synchronizing their profile with Facebook, Last.Fm and Twitter and enabling automatic status updates according to their locations.
• Getting more realistic information when selecting a venue.
• Encouraging people to be more social, unlike other online social networks.

Why Owners Use

• Learning what kind of people inside their venue and adjust their services according to this information.
• Presenting their venue to customers efficiently.