Designing content distribution with trading options - "Yank Yank": a prototype system

Abstract

There exist several market-places on the Internet where authors offer free and premium content to end-users for download. The published content differs but might be articles, music, photos, books etc, all depending on the end-users needs. Essentially such mar- ketplaces are inffuenced by both content management systems (CMS) and e-commerce. General characteristics of such systems offer authors a central way to upload and publish their digital assets to the public, without having the actual technical knowledge of do- ing so. There are however not many systems that can offer both authors and end-users the benefit of a fair trade from selling and buying content due to the small margin in micropayments. On commission by the IP-telephony provider Cellip this master thesis is about investigation and implementing the basics and logic of such a system. The thesis starts with a introduction of general CMS and e-commerce marketplaces. Pro- ceeding it explains an structure of the system, its functionality and how the iterative procedure of the development process made progress. The thesis resulted in a mixed CMS/e-commerce system where authors can promote, upload and publish their content, where end-users can create accounts, search for, rate and buy content. The system also includes an administration interface for managing.