S.W.O.T Team

The jury has spoken and the verdict is out! We have finally nailed down our project plan: Simulate the Google Calendar with Weather Alerts. After careful consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of both our options (Del.icio.us & gCAL), we performed a very business-like S.W.O.T analysis on both cases. These were my conclusions:

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Strengths
1. Good Visual Design and Interactivity will make the project successful
2. Very user-oriented
3. Patrick LOVES the idea ;-)

Weaknesses
1. Stiff competition, with many people in and outside of class working on the idea
2. Lack of innovation in the idea: We aim to re-design the UI of an existing idea

Opportunities
1. Scope for understanding the nuances user-centered front-end and data-base heavy back-end.

Threats
1. Picking up several database technologies when we would rather focus on UI
2. People are already working on the idea in and outside of class

gCAL and Weather: SWOT!?

Strengths
1. Innovative and Exciting
2. Simulating the gCal interface is a valuble experience
3. Ajax style will be heavily used
4. Involves more Client-side design

Weaknesses
1. Working with the gCal API requires a lot of research
2. gCal is still in Beta Stage
3. The interface will only display the weather and would not enable the user to update events

Opportunities
1. We get to play around with gData
2. gWeather can be extended to provide RSS feeds to Google personalized homepage

Threats
1. Will be able to finish it on time?
2. Making the interface to look as close as possible to gCAL will be a challenge- as we would not like the user to get accustomed to two different designs