2. Progress
www.openlibrary.hk
Website and mobile ETA : Mid-Septmber
iOS and Android ETA: Mid-October
Basic Function: Books Management, Lend/Borrow logistic, Catelog,
Users Community
Additional Function: Internative Map, QR-Code verification, Bar-Code
to ISBN
Things we need: Logo, online payment......
Operation Mode: Run as Open Source Community
Source Code will be open to developors shortly after deploy
Open to public after 20000 users.
Hackthon for Innovative Propose: eg.How to build connection up
within 10000 users?
Serve as platform for Social Technology Innovation/Social Hacking
Target : Override Facebook
3. Issues to be discuss:
Distance with Facebook:
Give chance for people to create “Second Identity” in Open Library.
Create a breathing space out of the “怨氣” ,“戾氣” of Facebook Community
Settle Name Issue: Open Library
Reason 1 : “Open” Library for “Open Society”
Against the “Close”, “Homogenizated”, “Main Stream” Society
Reason 2 : The Scenario of Library
Expected Mutal respect and Equlity within different ideas
to infulence our society.
Following up with our idea:
“平台期望以促進知識流通的方式，建立和維繫香港的閱讀者社群，增進跨地域、
跨階層的人與人之間的理解與信任”
4. Key Issues on designing
“Social Network Upon books”
User Experience : What shall they see when using the app?
Consider Facebook
First Impression : Something close to their taste
“Random Walking” and “With Purpose”
How to Help Users to Explore the Community? (Books, People, Location)
Organize by Books or by People? Or both?
How to Create Connection between People?
How to Encourage Users to Involve into the Community?
Involve : Lend/Borrow more books, sharing their life, eg. upload photos,
book reviews and comments
How active should users be?
Active involvement, but less than facebook/twitter
5. Five Modules : Home Page
Page Users see when first login
Provide notification, update
information
“Entrance” to other functions
6. Five Modules : Profile
Contain information of Users
Bookshelf: Manage Books, Lend
and Borrow
8. Five Modules: Books
Information of Books
User’s rate, review,
comments
User willing to lend/
want to Borrow
Other information
related to Books and
readers
https://book.douban.com/subject/27064644/
9. Five Modules : Explore
A Interactive Map of HK (Use
google map?)
For user to mark themselves on
(Books, Lends, Activity?)
Explore another dimension of
HK
15. Lesson from Lenro
A “Dead App” : Low popularity, not much users
Poor Personal Profile
Local Reason
Social Inequality of India
Logistic Reason
Lack of offline effort
Lack of Management and Promotion
Could not build connection between Lenders and Borrowers
18. Lesson from Sparktake
Simple and Straight forward as a marketplace
Maybe a good trading place, but not a Library
Library : share life, thought and ideas with books
Missing element of “Person”
No space to share personal thought
Book arranged messy
Arrange books by upload time only
Bad first impression
23. Lesson from Coachsurfing
How to consist the element of “Person” with “Books” ?
Dashboard/Home Page is messy
Expect to be a functional app, not a social network
