After several brown-bag lunch sessions, the people from Geotopia identified several key features, from both a user's perspective and from nonfunctional requirements, that must be implemented in the first release of Geotopia. Time to market is very important and will make or break the success of Geotopia.
Geotopia concluded that the unique concept for their social network is based on location. The standard environment for users will be a map, focused on their current or preset location, that offers them an overview of interesting events, messages, and multimedia localized around their current whereabouts.
The main canvas of Geotopia is a map based on Microsoft's Bing Maps technology and offers the user a central overview of his or her activities and interests, around a specific location.
In order to make Geotopia easy to access and make use of existing identity providers, it will enable users to sign up using their existing credentials (besides signing in with a dedicated Geotopia...