User talk:FrankieHughes8990

Adding more content to the YOLO page
Hi there,

I have been told this is the best way to go about adding content to Wikipedia. I would like to add content to the YOLO page on Wikipedia.

Please see below the content we want to add:

YOLO.com: Product Description YOLO is an activity sharing club and friendly environment for people to discover new things and share the exciting moments of their lives. The name stems from the acronym for "You Only Live Once". Similar to "carpe diem" or "memento mori", www.YOLO.com implies that one should enjoy life and make the most of it. The phrase and acronym are widely used in youth culture.
 * 1) YOLO offers an online service platform for individuals and local businesses to organise, manage, and promote events. It is a new project based on a system of events and content grabbed from a variety of sources, as well as a system of feed.

DESIGN PURPOSES YOLO.com was made for people who are tired of routine and monotonous activities. For an older audience, who may feel they have less to do, and for the young ones who do not want to use the same social networking services as their parents and teachers. This concept was designed as a special tool to help users arrange a new trip or adventure then share this with the YOLO community.

YOLO CONTENT/ EVENTS

We wrote a system of grabbing and selection of content from a variety of sources on the set parameters. We work with a variety of content sources, including such services as Instagram, YouTube and Vimeo according to the parameters specified by us. The system is able to pick up content on the certain criteria, at any time. We are also able to add new keywords for grabbing and within an hour the content will appear on our site. The main goal of YOLO.com is to provide high quality, hard to discover, “non-trending” events to the user. We collect and display events in different formats: 1) A List (when a user has time to search for something interesting in the future without any specific targets); 2) A Map (when a user is on the go and searches for something fun to do nearby; 3) A Calendar (when a user wants to plan their leisure time according to their availability by a specific date or time).

We have implemented a new system to work with our events on YOLO. The system works with both events, the ones we receive from various external sources and also with our own. The system consists of 2 parts; part 1 is grabbers, which get the information from external sources (in an average day we get about 6000 events). The second part is an events search engine for our users based on: interests, location and date. The system then selects the most relevant options to the user. At the same time, the user can adjust these parameters and search results.

To implement this product we used SOLR, as full-text search engine for events and MYSQL as the main database our system is operating with. All events and activities are gathered from different sources: 1) Top event sites with public API; 2) Small entertainment/lifestyle sites which describe local activities; 3) Personal “hand picked” search results by our dedicated approval managers; 4) Social Networks recommendations (content for #YOLO is gathered by the most popular #hashtags people use on different social networks).

FEED

This new service is written into our platform, the service was successfully tested on a multi-site, and is now part of the YOLO functional. For this service, we have used many technologies; the service was written in PYTHON and is working with queue service Rabbit and Cassandra and MYSQL databases. With this functionality we are creating a newsfeed for each user, similar to Facebook. The addition of new types of events is dynamic and with a customisable set of parameters. The user can share, like and comment on all events, photo and video content. #YOLO provides people with everything they need in one place: suggestions of events to attend, new places to go and new friends to be made.

YOLO was created by Cupid Labs, a new department of Cupid Plc. Cupid Plc is one of the top 5 global online dating companies, listed on the London Stock Exchange. Cupid Labs has created project YOLO for expansion into new and bigger markets. Cupid Labs main objectives are to search for new audiences and niches, to develop new business models and innovative features and to succeed in becoming an independent social network platform.

I look forward to hearing your comments.

Thank you

FrankieHughes8990 (talk) 09:38, 23 October 2013 (UTC)