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Explore Bates (2008)
Proposal – Initiated October 2008
Explore Bates is a demo of how many views of Bates can be brought together into a personalized start page, like iGoogle or myYahoo. NetVibes is simply another dashboard, with the added benefit of a public view.
All of the content in Explore Bates — the news stories, the photos, the maps, and the events — is being pulled from other services: Flickr for photos, WordPress for news, GoogleMaps for places, and DabbleDB for events.
Our goal is to show the many ways people can use public content which is produced with sharing in mind from the start. Explore Bates is about gathering.