Service required: Mobile Web, Web Design
Technologies used: ajax, css, javascript, json, mysql, php
Applications: bbPress Forum Core, Twitter OAuth integration
Wossy Book Club is clever down to its core. The forum functionaility itself was taken from bbPress, the open source forum software from the creators of world-leading blogging software WordPress. The idea of the book club is that it runs through Twitter – it’s a Twitter book club after all. To integrate the two web sites Twitter OAuth has been put in to the core, with user registration and logon powered through the Twitter API. Through OAuth logon, the service is able to send tweets, and communicate with user profiles making the web site an extension of Twittter, rather than a seperate web site.
And the book club is now more than a forum. Ben Sutcliffe has added functionality to bring each forum in to a book discussion with book covers, blurbs and author details.
To help users with the fortnightly discussions, TweetStreams have been created to bring discussions and tweets in to simple conversation threads. The site also operates in the browser on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android, and developers are looking in to extending the site to application form in the Android mobile operating system. If you haven’t already joined, then sign up through Twitter now!
Visit: wossybc.com