MingleSpot

   

  ABSTRACT

  MingleSpot is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. It’s social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you've never met before. It will become the fastest growing travel and lifestyle social networking community portal in future and discover how easy it is for you to keep in touch, meet people from around the world and keep your friends and family informed of your whereabouts movements and activities. Use messaging capabilities to keep in touch simply, quickly and cheaply!

MingleSpot makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favorite recipes.

MingleSpot is a flagship example of the next generation of internet companies born out of the world with global potential. By sharing tips and introductions with likeminded travelers, it’s members can get more out of their leisure time. This brand will have massive growth potential and we will be delighted to be involved."                    

The System after careful analysis has been identified to present with the following modules. The following functionalities are incorporated in this application

1. About profile

To avail the facility user must register him by creating his profile. This module maintains all the information, which belongs to the profiles that are registered in the portal. This module maintains the total information about the registered users. For each and every user profile has been divided into five types. i.e., Basic information, Contact information, Personal information, Educational & Professional information, and other information. If the user don’t want to display his profile to all the users and wants to display for some of his friends then he can change his settings in my settings option.

2. About Buddies

This module allows users to search friends and view their profiles and place request to add people as friends and allows to send scraps to your buddies. If any of the users wants to search for the friends, he can search the friends by just choosing the search option located in the portal. They can search for the friends by choosing their own option. After completion of search if they want to view their friend’s profiles then they can view the profiles by clicking on their friend’s name. After completion of search if you want to add that person to your friends list then you can open his profile and choose the option ‘add as a friend’, then it will be placed in your friend’s list. If you want send a scrap to that person then you can directly open his profile and choose the option ‘Leave a scrap’. So you can send a scrap. Finally this module maintains all the information related to search the friends and their profiles.

3. About SAWAALS AND POLLS

Users can place questions on various topics and can view the answers posted by other registered users. This functionality allows users to create polls and participate in polls created by other users. This module deals with major and crucial part that includes the details of existed sawals and polls. Every user can able to create a new poll and view the existed polls. Each and every user can vote for the polls. But the user who has created the poll is not allowed to vote for his poll. Any of the existed user can directly go to the portal, select the poll option and vote for the poll. This facility is used to know opinion of the people. Sawal is the most useful feature for the public. In this feature we can place a new sawal. In this feature sawals is categorized into some parts, depending upon that parts we can place a sawal and view the existed sawals. Each and every user can directly answer for the sawals excluding the user who has created the sawal is not allowed to answer his sawal. Only the administrator can able to cancel a sawal or a poll if it effects the others privacy.

4. About COMMUNITIES  

This functionality allows users to create their own gang or to participate in an existing gang. This gang feature is available for every user. Each and every user can create their own gang. We can add the gang’s details, what activities our gang should be done this type information also we can place. Also each and every user can view the details of all the existed gangs. If any of the user wants to join in that gang they can just click the join button, or wants to see the members involved in that gang then just click the member’s button.  The gang started date also we can place and we can see the existed gang’s starting dates. Only the admin user can cancel the gang if it effects the others privacy.

5. About Information

Provide your opinions about anything in the world like cars, bikes, etc. Search info about your city. We can collect the public opinion. Every user can ask for the opinion in the portal at the same time share your opinion with the existed opinions. We can ask for the opinions about anything in the world like cars, bikes etc, and we can search for the movies, schools in our city. Each and every user can view all the opinions which are already existed in the portal.

6. About Administrator

Activities related to administrator like permit/update/delete any user profile or a gang created by registered users. This module deals with major and crucial part that includes the cancellation of polls, sawaals, opinions, gangs, etc. The admin user can cancel any of the above features if they affect any inconvenience to the users. This module deals with all the existed gangs, polls, sawaals and maintain all the information about these features.

User Account Creation: To avail the facility user must register himself by creating his profile.

·        Search Friends: Allows users to search friends and view their profiles and place request to add people as friends

·        Sawals: Users can place questions on various topics and can view the answers posted by other registered users.

·        Polls: This functionality allows users to create polls and participate in polls created by other users.

·        Gangs: This functionality allows users to create their own gang or to participate in an existing gang.

·        Opinions: Provide your opinions about anything in the world like cars, bikes, etc.

·        Local Info: Search info about your city.

·        Scraps: Send scraps to your buddies.

·        Pictures: Allows users to upload their pics and many more….

 Project Overview

Problem statement is one of the basic and important phases of project phase. When the basic problem is determined, it is documented and the symptomatic problem is analyzed, then the current list of basic problem is completed. A system is simply a set of components that interact to accomplish some purpose.

Mingle Spot is an online software application which provides the excellent communication between people. It provides the interface to users in a graphical way to interact with the friends and create their own communities and groups.

The aim of this application is to find the people who share your hobbies and interests. Also you can create and join in communities to discuss current events and it will help us to improve the business contacts.

Current system is a existing one in which user can send messages only.

This project is developed using Java Programming Language under Windows.

Aim & Scope of the project

          MingleSpot is an application and is used to create/manage/monitor gangs and can send scrap messages as well as can find the information regarding the needs. Finally you can modify MingleSpot system properties. Lot of effort was put to make it user friendly.

Ø Optimum utilization of application is possible. All basic features are provided.

Ø Reduces the user interaction work.

Ø More flexible/expendability it means developer can --

They can implement their own client (HTML/JavaScript, Applet, Flash, Java Application). They only need API (JavaDoc) to know how to interact with MingleSpot server-side. HTML/JavaScript skins are also a good starting point. XML Connector service should be used for remote clients (Applets).

Existing System

Here the existing system is nothing but the traditional email communication system using which user can send messages only. In this system he can maintain or categorize different communities or groups and the user can’t search for his friend.

Disadvantages:

·        Unable to search for his friends and add them in the friend’s list.

·        Unable to manage communities easily and join in that community

·        Unable to conduct the polls

·        Unable to upload photos and share the photos

·        Unable to place scrap messages to other users

·        Unable to invite the friends into his community

Proposed System

            This system tries to overcome the difficulties in the system and makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favorite recipes.

Advantages

·        Good communicative social network with user-friendly UI

·        Can able to search for friends and can also able to add them to their friends list

·        Can able to invite friends.

·        Can create and manage the communities

·        Can able to view the existing communities, and join in that.

·        Can able to place a scrap to other users and can view their own scraps

·        Can able to ask a sawaal and can able to answer to an existing sawaal

·        Can able to share his opinions

·        Can able to upload their photos into the gallery and can view the existing photos

·        Can conduct the polls

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS                              

PROCESSOR       :   Intel 2.0 GHz or above

HARD DISK        :   80 GB

RAM                : 512 MB RAM.

   SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

OPERATING SYSTEM             : WINDOWS XP with SP2. 

LANGUAGE (FRONT END)   : JAVA (JDK1.5/1.6)

SERVER                                     : APACHE TOMCAT 5.5/6.0

WEB TECHNOLOGY              : HTML, JAVASCRIPT, CSS.

DATABASE (BACK END)        : MYSQL .

ARCHITECTURE                      : 3-TIER ARCHITECTUR