spy vs spy
2004 / MERZ AKADEMIE / WEB PROJECT / XHTML / CSS / PHP / MYSQL
spy vs spy user login
For registration users had to provide their university e-mail address
The virtual “filing cabinet”
View of the file of Dragan Espenschied
Built-in abuse reporting
Creating a new file entry
Selecting a student from a predetermined list for a new file
First entry in a new file
Userstatistics and password management
“Agency” statistics
Help - overview
Help - user ranking explained
Help - file ranking explained
Project details
Under the topic of “Data > Information > Wisdom”, given by Prof. Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, students had to deal with the aspects of information as currency, ways of accumulating knowledge, augmenting its value, storing and visualizing it. Together with my co-student Simone Ganß and Stefan Niehues, student of computer science at the University of Oldenburg, I developed a system in which data about persons at Merz Akademie was collected.
To get hold of the information we built a kind of blog, with the exception that noone writes in his own about himself, but always about other people in theirs. To make it attractive to the target audience we gave it the apperance of a game.
A fictional agency where spies work and data of observed persons is stored in files. The more information the files contain, the higher the spies had to be in rank to get access. Ranks could be gained by adding information to the system, which was always possible with all files, wether one could look into them or not.
It was driven by the curiosity of everyone. New users posted because they wanted to know the contents of all files, old users posted to preserve their status, because they could loose it if others were working harder in the accumulation of information.
Content generated from the community, for the community, a bit of Web 2.0 in 2004. We had a great time. =)