Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Discover relevant information

Mashup Links from Twitter has been updated. Now it can work with huge friends lists too. Discover relevant information filtered by people you (or someone you know) follow.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

JSOS ver. 6.50

Coldbeans Software announced the next milestone in JSOS (servlets office suite) development. JSOS reaches the version 6.50. This largest collection of Java servlets and filters provides 135+ "out of the box" components ready for building web-pages.

One of the biggest parts is the rich set of filters. Package includes such components as XML and WML transcoding, access restriction, traffic restriction, caching, profiling etc.

All components are configurable, so you may incorporate them into your own design frameset. Components from JSOS do support WAP/WML, so the same set of components can be used for wireless users too. At this moment JSOS provides a largest set of servlets and filters over the Net.

check out the latest version here: Java Servlets Suite 6.50

Monday, September 28, 2009

XMPP on GAE

A practical example: XMPP application on Google App Engine, step by step guide.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Asterisk web gate

Our Asterisk stuff is getting an own site. See here a new approach for telecom services development in Asterisk. Code (LGPL) is hosted on Google projects.

Asterisk web gate lets you turn telecom services development into an ordinary web development. Any telecom service there is just a CGI script.

See also the previous posting here

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Your personal Digg

Our mashup Twitter links has been updated. Lets you see links published in any Twitter time line. Just set a name for Twitter account and see links published by his/her friends. By the way, you can see links from your own friends too. E.g.: http://tlink.linkstore.ru?u=some_Twitter_name_here
Last version automatically expands short links (bit.ly). Mashup supports retweet and search (via Google + Twitter mashup). Author's data provided by the Twitter Info mashup.

Technically is is a set of public API: Twitter, Google, bit.ly. Server side component has been implemented via Yahoo Pipes.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Bird's eye view

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Updated: Bird's eye - yet another mobile web application uses the same W3C principles for getting locations as Geo Mail. Check out this link http://servletsuite.com/bird/ from iPhone. You can copy it right to your phone with this QR code.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Who is your friend or follower

A new version for Twitter info mashup is ready. Lets you combine Google Social API and Twitter API. Just type a name for any twitter account (e.g. your follower or twitter you are following to) and get a list of URL’s associated with this account. You could be surprised sometimes.

Also you can use this mashup as a link:

http://tinfo.linkstore.ru?u=twitter_account_name

The latest version lets you see a list of recently replied accounts as well as the links from friends.

Quite useful tool when you are checking some new 'followed you' notification, for example. Do you need to follow back or not? Mashup gives you a quick snapshot for the new reader.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Twitter links

A new Twitter mashup lets you read all the links from any Twitter timeline: http://tlink.linkstore.ru. Set any twitter name and see all the links suggested by his/her friends.
Also you can pass some name directly in the request. E.g. see the links from Dzone: http://tlink.linkstore.ru?u=dzone

Something to read from Twitter

What does Twitter founder Jack Dorsey read: http://linkstore.ru/tlink/?u=jack

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Meta search

Meta search mashup Got has been updated. Lets you perform a parallel search for Google Blogs and Twitter.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

And who is that twitter

A new version for Twitter info mashup is ready. Lets you combine Google Social API and Twitter API. Just type a name for any twitter account (e.g. your follower or twitter you are following to) and get a list of URL’s associated with this account. You could be surprised sometimes.

Also you can use this mashup as a link:

http://tinfo.linkstore.ru?u=twitter_account_name

The latest version lets you see also a list of recently replied accounts.

Quite useful tool when you are checking some new 'followed you' notification, for example. Do you need to follow back or not? Mashup gives you a quick snapshot for the new reader.

Friday, September 18, 2009

SIM card overview

An interesting presentation about smart cards.
P.S. And gere is our idea about Smart Card Web Server programming

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Bird's eye view

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Bird's eye - yet another mobile web application uses the same W3C principles for getting locations as Geo Mail. Check out this link http://servletsuite.com/bird/ from iPhone. You can copy it right to your phone with this QR code.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

SMS framework

Open Source framework for SMS services: RapidSMS. It works with GSM modems, so you can run your own SMS services without the direct contact with telecom operator.

P.S. Check out also SMS gate from JSOS. It has been used in many projects. For example Geo SMS uses it.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Twitter future is local

"Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg yesterday that the microblogging startup hopes to grow faster and better retain users by helping them find other users they might like to follow.
To attract more people to Twitter, the company’s designers are also working on a project to help new users discover others who might have similar interests or who live nearby, Stone said." - from here (via Bloomberg).

And because this application is not yet here - check out Local Twitter mashup

Monday, September 14, 2009

Twitter newspaper

Twitter newspaper - twitter search mashup wraps output in newspaper style.
Stay tuned - personalization options are coming.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Mobilize web content with QR code maker

Our bookmarklets suite has been updated. One of the new components (Mobilize data) lets you quickly mobilize any web content. Select any text of the web site you are currently in and hit Mobilize data bookmarklet. The selected text will be transferred to QR code maker mashup, so you will be able to create mobile page (and appropriate QR code) in one click only.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Who is that Twitter

A new version for Twitter info mashup is ready. Lets you combine Google Social API and Twitter API. Just type a name for any twitter account (e.g. your follower or twitter you are following to) and get a list of URL’s associated with this account. You could be surprised sometimes.

Also you can use this mashup as a link:

http://tinfo.linkstore.ru?u=twitter_account_name

A new version lets you see also a list of recently replied accounts.

Quite useful tool when you are checking some new 'followed' notification, for example. Mashup gives you a quick snapshot for the new reader.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Bookmarklets

Our collection of bookmarkles has been updated. See it here.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Messaging mashups

Our messaging mashups have been updated. Secure note – lets you publish one time readable text notes, Protected notes – lets you publish password protected text notes. Now both mashups support REST API, so you can create text notes programmatically.

Support for messages API added to our Coldtags suite. You can see Protected notes taglib and Secure notes taglib

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Macintosh Nokia

Interesting User-Agent HTTP header from the log:

Netscape 5.0 Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-1/11.0.021; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) BrowserNG/7.1.12344

OS detected as Macintosh Nokia

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Opera 10

For widgets developers: Opera widgets have an added security feature in Opera 10 — by default Widgets don't have access to network. You can enable network access by adding a network="public" attribute to the widget element in your widget's config.xml file:

<widget network="public">
...
</widget>

P.S. check out some of our widgets here: Address share

Monday, September 07, 2009

Regular expressions

Useful collection: popular regular expressions

We can add our own. The following JavaScript code recognizes URL's in the text and replaces them with hyperlinks:

var re = new RegExp("(([a-zA-Z]+:\/\/)([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_\.-]*[a-zA-Z]{2,6})([a-zA-Z0-9~\#\/\._\?\&%-=]*[a-zA-Z0-9~\#\/_\?\&%-=]))", "g");

text = text.replace(re, "<a href='$1'>$1</a>");

and here we can create mailto hyperlinks:

re = new RegExp("([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4})","g");
text = text.replace(re, "<a href='mailto:$1'>$1</a>");


both tricks borrowed from QR code maker mashup

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Mobilize your data with QR codes

Our mashup QR code generator has been updated again. Application lets you easily present your data for mobile users. Just type (or copy/paste) your text and mashup will prepare for you:

mobile web page, presents your data
short link for it
QR code for sharing your data

Posting automatically recognizes URL's and email's in your text and keeps them on mobile site. So, for example, you can simply share links for mobile users with this mashup. Just type your URL and get mobile page for it (as well QR code for sharing).
Recognized links could be automatically transcoded so non-mobile content will be adopted on the fly

Tags cloud

Blogger.com is celebrating 10 years. So tags cloud is finally a standard widget :-) Details are here. See the results at the bottom of this page.

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Mobile files bookmarks

QR code Our new mobile service – bookmarks for files. Mobile site: http://mfile.linkstore.ru. You can load this link right to your phone with QR code above.

This application helps you share local files from your phone. Service lets you create bookmarks for files (e.g. media data) from your phone. File size – up 1 Mb. The goal is to quickly share local content: send pictures to friends etc.
For each local file service create a separate mobile page (bookmark) that lets readers download this file or share it with the own friends.

The usage is very simple, you do not need any registration. For sharing your local file go to mobile site http://mfile.linkstore.ru, type file name and upload the file itself. After that just bookmark the mobile page created by the service..

On the desktop level you can see a service Mobile page. See for example its description here

Friday, September 04, 2009

One time readable messages

Our mashup Secure Notes has been updated. Service lets you create (and share via Twitter, email or Facebook) self destroyed text notes. Each note will be automatically deleted right after the first opening (reading).
This new version supports also HTTP API. So now you can create such notes right from your web applications.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Geo Mail for iPhone

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We wrote recently about reading locations data in web applications. It was just a technique. And here is a bit more interesting example. Mobile mashup Geo Mail lets you share coordinates via email. It is a wrapper for the native email client lets you add a signature with your location info. For example this web application is the simplest way to tell your friend where you are right from your iPhone. You do not need even to type anything. Just hit Send button and send data via email.
Depends on your settings application can send a link to the Google map, a link to the static map (just a picture) or just a plain text with latitude / longitude info.

Technically it is W3C based geo locations plus a public API from bit.ly

You can copy a link to http://servletsuite.com/geomail/ right to the phone with the QR code above.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Local Twitter


Our mashup Local Twitter has been updated. This application lets you quickly discover tweets near your, their authors as well as the topics they are writing about.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Portal servlet

One of the oldest components in our servlets suite – Portal servlet got a huge redesign. Now it is a JQuery based wrapper for your links. Could be used as a starting page in your intranet applications for example.