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Bob is a software engineer working at a well-established software company. His social network includes his friends from college, family and co-workers. He is really into the "latest and greatest" technology products, and has been reading everything on the web about the upcoming iPad release. He currently has an iphone, which he uses primarily when he's not at work or front of his home computer. He uses Google+ to stay in touch with friends and co-workers, and Facebook to stay in touch with his family and extended social network. He checks his email in Gmail at least once every couple of hours. He surfs Reddit, imgur and hackernews on his down-time at work. In addition, he's been following political news feeds to keep himself updated on the 2012 US presidential election. Currently he's at home, and he wants to check up on a bit of news and relax after a hard day's debugging. To read the information, BobHe's decided to give this new application Hubbub a try. He's just finished setting up Gmail, Facebook, Google+, hackernews, reddit, NYTimes and imgur in Hubbub. Now, he wants to start reading his news:
NOTE: This list isn't complete yet, we should take a futher look at it.
- Reads the top item Bob skims items in the list of data displayed.
- Moves through the list, reading each item in turn.
- Hubbub provides, reading items that sound interesting to him
- He sees some interesting articles he's too lazy to read in-depth right now, and marks them as "read later"
- He finds a really interesting graphic in a NYTimes article, and shares it on Facebook and marks it with a new "cool" tagBob may use the controls to like/+1/retweet/etc the read item. The backend will communicate with the source websites' APIs to send the requests through.
Chapter 2: Filtering
While reading the items on his feed, Bob is bothered by a problem that has ben been annoying him for a while now. Now that he has started using Hubbub, he thinks he can fix it.
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