Cache for JSP

A very useful component for JSP (and/or Coldfusion) developers - Cache taglib. Lets you cache JSP fragments and reuse them later as static code.

Twitter info

"Twitter Pumps Up Follower Email Notifications Further With Social Graph Juice. Remember back in the day when Twitter follower email notifications basically only told you a person’s username? Yeah, those were pretty useless. Luckily, we’re far beyond that. And a new addition today makes these notifications more useful than ever.

Over time, Twitter has added things like profile pictures, stats (number of tweets, following/followers), and most recently, list stats and bios. But a new addition allows you to see just how many people you follow also follow the person requesting you. And it shows you how many people the user follows that you also follow." - from TC.

It is really better than it was, but I still think that our Twitter info mashup can give you much more information about new followers.

Location and privacy

Sharing location makes the virtual world real. And it's this reality that creates concerns about location over-sharing," states Nick Bicanic, CEO of echoecho mobile, "Facebook Places promises your location will be known to all of your friends in an instant but fails to address any of the security concerns that come with that responsibility."

echoecho allows people to ask and answer the question "Where are you?" with one click. That's it. No over-sharing. No tracking. No stalking. No battery drain. Just simple, fast, useful and secure location sharing. - from here

That is exactly what we wrote before. And it is exactly what our Geo Message approach is about

Page speed and load times

"Page speed and load times are the foundation for a positive user experience on the web. Let’s face it, if your page fails to load in time, all the effort put towards information architecture, content strategy and interaction design will be for naught" - collection of tools

HTML frameworks

10 Useful Frameworks To Develop HTML-Based Webapps for Touch Devices

Business Intelligence From Twitter Text

The rise of Twitter has made large quantities of text available in multiple languages. As a result, text processing, text analysis and other natural language processing techniques have become a staple in business intelligence. Eight Books To Get You Started!

Crowdsourcing

Five businesses that look to the crowds for content. Crowdsourced business names, a news site where readers pick the stories, decision advice via social networks, crowdcasting tools for radio, and a TV show where viewers decide what happens next. See it here.

CSS3 maker

Auto-generator for CSS3: CSS3 maker

Mobile ID card for Facebook

Mobile mashup Facebook ID card lets you create mobile identification card with your Facebook ID. This mashup lets you create mobile web page with QR code that presents your name and photo from Facebook. You can present (show) this QR code (mobile page) on the some check-in point, QR code could be scanned right from your phone and your ID could be checked. How does it work?

1. Go to http://linkstore.ru/fbcard/



2. Login with your Facebook ID



3. Your card is ready. You will get a short URL for it. You can directly type that URL in your mobile browser or scan via QR code



4. Bookmark that URL in your mobile browser

5. Now at some check-point just open that URL and show your QR code. It could be scanned right from your phone (scanner here is just another phone with QR code reader for example)



6. Check-point staff will see your card on the own phone



How this application could be used:

- physical check-in
- events registration
- mobile tickets
- loyalty cards

Embedding Tomcat

How to start Tomcat 7 from your own application

Google fonts API

Testing Google fonts API. Font: Tangerine.

Hadoop tutorial

Scaling Big Time with Hadoop - a good introduction

Facebook places

All about Facebook places. And here is another approach: How to share location info via Facebook

Directory of mashups

Our mashups directory has been updated. Check out for example our first Facebook mashup - Mobile ID card

HTML5 web workers

A great illustration of HTML5 web workers

End of Java?

Oracle's decision to sue Google for infringing its patents and copyright on Java in Android has certainly stirred up a hornets' nest of commentary and analysis on the web today, but it's only just now that we've received Google's official statement, in which the search giant calls the suit "baseless" and vows to "defend open-source standards." - from here

Ugly sites

Do not over-estimate design. In fact, these ugly sites have gained such a fanatically loyal audience over the years that their owners wouldn’t dream of updating their design today. They pride themselves on a site that may not be much to look at, but it’s incredibly easy to use and understand - from here.

Geo Messages

Our Geo Messages project has been updated again.

Rather than let social network monitor your location (Google Latitude) or share your location info with some social circle (Foursquare check-in etc.) Geo Messages approach lets you share location data on the peer to peer basic. You can share your location info just as a signature to the standard messaging (email, SMS). And what is important – shared location data (map) does not contain your identity. Your ID (name, phone) is in your email (SMS) only. The shared map does not reveal anything about the author.

In the last version you can also share location info with your Twitter and/or Facebook friends.

jQuery in August

30+ Brand New jQuery Plugins To Change the Look and Feel of Your Website

Web store

App Store for Web applications - openappmkt.com

Minimalist Icon sets

"Minimalism is always a hot topic in web-design and there are many well-crafted minimalist websites and interfaces out there.

While searching for some icons for a recent project I came across some great minimalist icon and symbol sets and thought I’d expand my search and share my findings here with you" - from here

There is always a huge demand for minimalist icons in our mashup projects.

Graph databases

Use cases for graph databases:

- Social Graph, slide 6
- Spatial Data, slide 8
- Social + Spatial Graph (Facebook + Location Data), slide 10
- Financial Trail, slide 11
- Indexing, slide 18
- Recommendations, slide 21

Neo4j - 5 cool graph examples

View more presentations from Peter Neubauer.

Ajax rotate

Rotate your ad without page reloading - Ajax banner from Coldtags suite

HTML5 features

25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques

Geo Messages

Our Geo Messages project has been updated.

Rather than let social network monitor your location (Google Latitude) or share your location info with some social circle (Foursquare check-in etc.) Geo Messages approach lets you share location data on the peer to peer basic. You can share your location info as a signature to the standard messaging (email, SMS). And what is important – shared location data (map) does not contain your identity. Your ID (name, phone) is in your email (SMS) only. The shared map does not reveal anything.

In the last version you can also share location info with your Twitter and/or Facebook friends.

Geo-coded twits

Our mashup Checkins has been updated. Lets you see in the real time statuses in Twitter where geo-coding is presented. Really geo-coded twits in other words. By the way, it is a real size for "check-in" market in Twitter. As you can see - only small part of messages actually contains geo data.