21.4.2010
Win movie tickets! Fill in the third OtaSizzle
survey here
and take part in a lottery of two movie
tickets! If you participated in the previous surveys, you're most welcomed to
participate again. The survey covers the use of different communication
technologies, and takes about 15 minutes. Your participation is extremely
valuable for developing better mobile services for the campus!
Keep on sizzling and visit our blog!
Have a great summer,
OtaSizzle team
OtaSizzle is a research project that develops a
mobile living lab in the Otaniemi area and the Aalto University. Goals are to produce social media to campus life and to study use of the new social media services. OtaSizzle platform provides a flexible programming environment and infrastructure for creating mobile services and for testing them in real-life settings.
OtaSizzle is funded by donations from private companies and communities to the "Technology for Life" campaign of the Aalto University under the MIDE research programme.
Kassi and Ossi are the first two OtaSizzle services.
Click here for more information
Frequently Asked Questions
HOWTOs
OtaSizzle allows outside developers to tap into the Aalto Social Interface (ASI) and create their own applications.
Aalto Social Interface, or ASI, is a RESTful platform for social media applications. Using ASI, anyone can create their own application that is available to the OtaSizzle user base and social network. An ASI application will not necessarily even need its own database.
Kassi is a service that enables the exchange of various favors through listings posted by users. There are five categories: Marketplace, Favors, Group search, Carpools, Lost&found and Other. You can browse the listings without registering to the service, but if you want to answer to a listing or see the user profiles you have to create an user account. The aim of Kassi is to make the exchange of daily favors easier in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Ossi is a group-centered mobile social media service. You can use Ossi to connect with friends, keep in touch with groups and to stay tuned to what is sizzling around you. Ossi has been developed especially to be used on the three Aalto university campuses in Helsinki metropolitan area.
Click here for more information (and downloads).
Click here to try Ossi (or go to http://ossi.sizl.org on your mobile phone's browser).
NSM service is a Practical information sharing social networking platform for NordSecMob and International students. The main objective is to promote sharing of information among NordSecMob Student community. Share your experience, ideas, thoughts and social life during your study period through this service.
Click here to try NordSecMob (or go to http://nsm.sizl.org on your mobile phone's browser).
4.12.2009
Please participate in the new OtaSizzle survey on different communication
technologies. A Nokia N97 multimedia phone will be raffled among the
respondents! The survey takes about 15 minutes and is open until 18.12.
12.10.2009
Please fill in the survey about Kassi. Three movie tickets will be raffled among the respondents. The survey is in Finnish only and open until 18.10.
21.9.2009
OtaSizzle blog is now open
1.9.2009
Updated Ossi Dashboard widget for Mac OS X 10.5+ is now available from Ossi trac