Ask friends: socialize your search

Our mobile web mashup - Ask friends has been updated. It is a wrapper for Google search lets you share your search query with your friends in Facebook. Mashup simply posts your query on Facebook's wall and redirects you to Google SERP. Who will help you the most?

Mobile site: http://askfriends.linkstore.ru

You can use also the following QR-code:



You can use mashup for creating links in your mobile web pages and directly provide your own query:

http://askfriends.linkstore.ru?q=your_query

A simple classified system on Twitter

Our mashup Buy-Sell has been updated. It lets you match 'buy' and 'sell' tweets. It's sort of like a Craigslist for Twitter. This mashup connects Buyers And Sellers On Twitter.

Mashup supports geo search. So you can see related tweets for the specified area only. Just use latitude and longitude as parameters to the original URL:

lat – latitude
lng – longitude

For example, buying and selling in:

London
Palo-Alto

Mashup lets you see "buy-and-sell" tweets with photos. Also you can directly pass your search string to the basic URL. Parameter's name is q. For example: iPad

P.S. see also Tweet vs. Tweet mashup

Useful bookmarklets

"Bookmarklets are special links that users can add to their browser’s favorites. These special links include code (i.e. not just a target URL), and they trigger various kinds of useful functionality, allowing you to modify and extend any web page." - it is what they do.

Check out our updated directory of bookmarklets

Partners for SpotEx

"The customer walks into a shopping center and activates his/her WiFi browser (free, branded, downloadable app) to see which stores offers what e.g. trials, demo's, vouchers, special offers; right now!" - our partner Clicode presents SpotEx.

Btw, they (Clicode) offers a lot of QR-code based solutions too. Some of them are also based on components from our QR-code suite.

About connected cars

An interesting stack from Delicious - Connected cars - the next big thing

And our own add-on: Emergency communications for drivers

Smart Cities

Interesting event in Amsterdam and interesting definition for Smart City applications.

It looks like our SpotEx is a perfect fit for Smart City applications.

About Facebook fans

Free WiFi for check-in. Looks like this, is not it?

"Why doesn’t everyone do this? It is clearly a better return than some CPM ad that users are dying to get away from… it’s relevant, not spammy and surprisingly welcome." - sure :)

About customized check-ins for Facebook Places

You are welcome to check out a new version of our mashup Places from Facebook.

Lets you search for places, show them on the map, copy locations to mobile, check-in anywhere as well as prepare mobile web pages for customized check-ins.

You can directly pass the following parameters to the basic URL:

lat - latitude
lng - longitude
q - query for search

For example, Facebook in London

For customized check-in place owner (or advertising/marketing agency, for example) can define all the aspects of check-in - data to be posted on user's wall, data to be returned as a confirmation, Google Analytics code for stats monitoring etc. This version provides own analytics for check-ins too. And of course you still can use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

In other words – any small business can create public (or private) "Foursquare-like" system for own visitors. Using all the power of Facebook’s user base.

P.S. See also QRpon – customized check-ins for Facebook

P.P.S. and here you can see Places from Google for the same area.

Random Images

Our JSOS collection is growing again. Random Image servlet lets you display random images in your Java web applications.

Places from tweets

Yet another our mashup has been updated - Location from Twitter.

Usually, the bundle Twitter + Maps always means mapping twits and show them on the map. Yes, we have such mashups too (see for example, Photo map или Local twitter). But here everything is vice versa. It is just a reverse task.

Suppose you are reading a great geo-located twit. Just a status associated with some place (location). In Twitter's web client you can see that place and an appropriate icon just below the message. How to get that place info and save/bookmark it on your phone? It is what our mashup - Places from Twitter is for.

It is very similar to our Location bookmark, but with Twitter status instead of address. Mashup Locations from Twitter also creates QR code for mobile map. And mobile map describes a place from Twitter. And here we are using Geo Messages again.

The usage is simple. Just open in Twitter’s web interface any geo-enabled twit and copy its URL to mashup’s form. Also you can save the following link Place from Twitter in your bookmarks and simply select that bookmark on any opened page with geo-enabled twit (it is so called bookmarklet).

And of course, any QR code created with this mashup could be placed anywhere – on your site/blog, Facebook wall etc. You can even print it and place on the physical wall. Mashup provides HTML code you need for embedding QR code image.

DLD 2012

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is DLD, Munich, 2011



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   DLD

Closed Graph API

Bad news from Google about Social Graph API: "This API makes information about the public connections between people on the web available for developers. The API isn’t experiencing the kind of adoption we’d like, and is being deprecated as of today. It will be fully retired on April 20, 2012." - from here

Sad. It is actually a good toolkit that lets for example provide WHOIS service for Twitter (e.g. search for other resources related to your new follower) or find more sites linked to the given URL

Four Cool Ways to Use a VNC Server

"In this article, I’m going to put together four remote-control systems that you can use to control various entertainment and display systems throughout your home, from a single, central computer. This is especially useful for those of you that have a "main" computer in your living room or living area that everyone uses." - very practical solutions for remote monitoring.

Data Mining: Finding Similar Items and Users

A good introduction: Euclidean Distance, similarity, Pearson Correlation Coefficient - see it here.

Lists in Twitter

Our mashup Lists from Twitter has been updated. Lets you extract popular topics from Twitter lists. Just set a name for the list (twitter_name/list_name) on the mashup’s page or directly provide it as a parameter:

http://tlist.linkstore.ru?u=some_list

For example:

abava/mobile
Scobleizer/geolocation