Geo chat

Our mobile mashup Geo chat has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application lets you chat with people nearby. Anonymously, you do not need any special account. Just a text chat with people near you (in the same café, in traffic jam etc.) Check out it from iPhone, Android, Samsung or Opera 10.1 mobile browser.

http://geochat.linkstore.ru

(it is a mobile site).

You can copy link right to your phone with QR-code above. Or use the following short URL http://bit.ly/gCbzm3.

There is the similar mobile mashup City chat - the dialogues there are connected to some place from Foursquare. Geo chat is almost the same but implemented for any geo place without the connection to some predefined place

Technically it is a web mashup that uses chat engine from Coldbeans.

As per similar "city-level" applications check out also City forums

Mobile barcode

"Mobile barcodes – a square matrix of black and white dots – are becoming more familiar sights on billboard and newspaper ads, product packaging or websites or on mobile tickets and coupons." - mobile barcodes review. And here is a compiled list of use cases for mobile barcodes. But of course, our QR codes How To should be there too.

City chat

Our mobile mashup City chat has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application lets you talk with other visitors for the same place (café, office etc.). Lets you add on-demand chat service for any particular place. No registration required. Check it out from your iPhone, Android, etc.

http://citychat.linkstore.ru

(it is a mobile site).

You can copy link right to your mobile browser with the QR-code above. Or use the following short URL: http://bit.ly/a7aOKv

Techically it is a mobile web mashup that uses Foursquare, YQL and chat engine from Coldbeans.

As a similar "city" application see also City forums and geo-chat

Never eat alone

"Vist it with any browser that supports geolocation (iPhone, Android, Opera 10.1) and the app displays a list of nearby cafes and restaurants. Tap one of the listings or enter the name on an unlisted one and instantly share a link to a map showing where you are as well as how long you will be there using Twitter, Facebook or Email" - our mashup NEA on WapReview.com

How to get RSS feeds for site

Java servlet lets you request RSS (Atom) feeds from sites and return data in JSON (JSONP) format. So your JavaScript application will be able to proceed obtained feeds for any arbitrary URL - Feed servlet

Feedburner stat info in JSP

Custom JSP tags library lets you obtain stat info for any Feedburner feed. Circulation shows the number of subscribers Feedburner records a hit each time someone loads your feed in a web browser, feed reader or other program. When bots and automated services request your feed, that also counts as a hit. Reach is the total number of people who have taken action — viewed or clicked — on the content in your feed - Feedburner taglib

GeoSMS on Android market

A first version for Android application Geo Message is available on the market. From your mobile you can search free application geo message from Coldbeans on Android market, right from PC you can check out Geo Message via App Brain for example.

You can download this application right now via the following QR-code



P.S. still curious about search on Android market. World leading search company has unsearchable web page. It is fine!

Big map

Our mashup Big Map has been updated. Full screen map with search box and places sharing for social networks.

You can also create links for your own web applications. Mashup accepts the following parameters:

a - initial address
lat - latitude
lng - longitude
zml - zoom level
mrk - show marker if this value is 1
hl - language

And via mobile link on the marker you can create QR-code for loading this map right to your mobile browser (HTML5: iPhone, Android, Samsung etc.)

Directory of mashups

Our mashups directory has been updated. A huge collection of applications: Twitter, Google Maps, LBS, QR-codes, HTML5 etc.

DLD 2011

We continue to publish 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 2011

Time-aggregated graph

"What new things could we discover if social network analysis took time and space into account, in addition to the raw connections between people? In most cases, social network analysis today is limited to discovering friend connections, community leaders and outlines, influential people and personal friend recommendations - in a static or snap-shot kind of way. If new factors could be taken into consideration, specifically changes over time and space, then social network analysis could discover things like emergence or decay of leadership, changes in trust over time, migration and mobility within particular communities online. That's very valuable information that the social web has barely begun to tackle capturing." - from here.

A very interesting read. Time as a factor in the soical graph analysis.

Facebook stat

A simple mashups - FBstat. Lets you obtain stat data from Facebook for any given URL (share counter, like counter, comments and clicks counters)

P.S. as a similar mashup check out also Social Graph for sites

P.P.S. technically it is based on the custom tags from Coldbeans

About bookmarklets

Our collection of useful bookmarklets has been updated.

Geo SMS

You can download our Geo SMS application for Android via AppCircus

/via Geo Messages

SIM based location services

Interesting overview of Operator's LBS for non-smartphones. Btw, the original version of Signed Geo Messages is exactly about this. And Geo Messages project comes later.

Google URL shortener API

Custom JSP tags library lets you deal with Google URL shortener API. The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends.

You can use these JSP custom tags to programmatically interact with goo.gl service right from JSP (and/or Coldfusion pages) - Google URL shortener taglib

Never eat alone

It is a popular rule for the networking - never eat alone. And here is a mobile service for support:

NEA - lets you mark some cafe (restaurant etc.) where you are in right now as well as the time you are going to stay there. This mark (on practice - a mobile page) could be shared via email/twitter/facebook, so your friends are interested in will see your place and time they can join you.

Mobile site: http://nea.linkstore.ru
Short URL: http://bit.ly/e80a3G

You can use also the following QR-code:



P.S. there is a huge set of related services. For example: Places, City Chat, City Forum, Geo chat и food from Twitter.

Javascript Game engines

A huge list of Javascript Game engines. Included Open Source components too.

Mobile map

Our mashup Mobile maps has been updated. Full screen map for mobiles (iPhone, Android - any HTML5 browser) lets you share location info as a signature for the standard messages.

You can load it right to your mobile browser with this QR code too:



You can use this mashup as is or embed it into your own applications. It helps you show some information for mobile users. This mashup accepts the following parameters for own URL:

t - text for POI
lat - POI's latitude
lng - POI's longitude
email - default email address
phone - default phone for SMS
lang - language for the map

dt - timestamp (milliseconds)
d - duration (min). For example, if your POI presents some event

instead of (lat, lng) pair you can use another parameter

a - address for your POI

For example, UK Prime Minister

We are using this tool in many our mobile LBS applications.

P.S. it is HTML5 web application, so the same will work in your desktop browser too, except SMS sharing of course.

/via Geo Messages

Time Spin custom JSP tag

Custom JSP taglib. Tag timespin lets you implement a time chooser in the form of a well know for GUI programmers spin control. See TimeSpin taglib

Convergent servlets

SIP+HTTP: "The values of asynchronous processing of requests in a converged HTTP/SIP application are tremendous. Having asynchronous processing in the game, there is no need to send an HTTP request in order for the UI to get updated, this can happen every time a new SIP message arrives.
Any action initiated by the sip endpoint will update the web application and vice versa. For example, when a new user registers, the REGISTER message will update the page to display the new user, and when the client clicks to call this new user, the sip endpoint will start ringing and so on.
A converged application will now be able to follow, present and react almost in real-time on every event that initiated from or destined to the HTTP/SIP Servlet container by any client, either a sip endpoint or a web browser." - from here.

Facebook stat

How to get Facebook stat (share count, like count, comments and clicks) in your JSP (and/or Coldfusion) application - Facebook stat taglib

Google Fusion Tables

A good tutorial for Fusion Tables service

Directory of mashups

Our mashups directory has been updated. A huge collection of applications: Twitter, Google Maps, QR-codes, HTML5 etc.

Pay by social network posting

It is a new business model for QR-code usage. Lets us see for example check-in model in Foursquare. Users check-in, service writes this information into user’s timeline and business delivers some benefits for the customers. And check-in information is on the practice a link to the services itself rather that a link to the business. So why do not make this process more logical at the end of the day? Ask users to put business related info into his her time line/wall etc. and deliver back some benefits (coupons, discounts, gifts, some free stuff etc.). So business will deliver benefits for the links in the social networks.

It is exactly what our service QRpon is about. This service lets any business create a mobile site for publishing data in social networks in exchange for some confirmation (coupon, discount info etc.) The process of creating mobile site is simple. Just set some text information about your business/offering, set a text for publishing in the social network and text for the confirmation. QRpon service will create a mobile site as well as QR-code for it. You can test this site (process) using this QR-code. If everything is Ok, just print this QR-code and place it on your business site. This QR code presents a physical (on-site) checkin for the customers.

End user can scan QR-code right from his/her phone, open mobile web site andyou’re your info/offering. If user is agreed, he/she can login to social network (right from the mobile site, there is Facebook connect button). Site will automatically publish your data (see above) to user’s wall/time line and return back the confirmation screen. This screen (e.g. coupon) could be presented to the staff for getting benefits. In other words it is like QR-code for coupons – that is the where the name QRpon comes from.

You can treat this service as pay links in the physical words. Customer pays for benefits by placing business data in the own social graph. Customer will get the benefits; business will get the social networks marketing. And the process works without the intermediate broker (read- without the checkin/places services).

On the main page QRpon service you can see a test QR-code. You can scan it and see how does this process work. For the accepting you need to login with your Facebook ID.
And for your own action just click 'Create QRpon' link. Set service info(description), text for publishing and the confirmation. Mobile web site generated by the service works with any HTML5 browser, so you can use it from iPhone, Android, Samsung etc.

P.S. and here you can create customized Like buttons

P.P.S. and here you can a huge list of services and mashups with QR-codes: QR-code how to.

Facebook connect locally

Building an application that uses Facebook Connect for login? Want you test the login locally? Here is how you will be able to use facebook connect locally. Useful tip!

CES video

Interesting video from CES:



See also here a list of useful links from CES 2010

CSS3 tools

CSS tools can save a lot of a time and frustration when working on a layout, as they can automatically generate some of the tedious code for you, and help you improve your productivity. With the advent of CSS3, there are also now some CSS3 tools and also some CSS3 generators that can create gradients for you, as well as provide WYSIWYG visuals. Most of us are visual learners, and even though hand coding is preferred for work, it helps to be able to see and learn what various CSS properties do.

In this post, you’ll find 10 productivity enhancing CSS tools and generators, as well as some CSS3 tools as well.

Useful collection. See also the previous CSS-related links

Web Alternatives to Usual Desktop Software

A good collection of tools: 20 Great Web Applications Alternatives to Usual Desktop Software

Spin control

Spin UI control for your JSP (and/or Coldfusion) pages: Spin taglib

Internet of things

Why Internet of Things Will Change Mobile Networks. Interesting numbers. But there is another important questions that is still unanswered. How internet of things will change development tools?

Cloud computing

A useful collection of lists in Twitter devoted to Cloud computing.

P.S. you can read them via Lists in Twitter mashup. For example: Cloud computing

Social directory for Facebook

Our mashup Social directory for Facebook has been updated. Lets you present data from your social graph in the simple tabular form: where my friends are working, living etc. It is a simple way for looking contacts in the particular company for example.

The latest version integrates Social Graph search from Google. So you can find now other web resources by your friends.

Get jar-ed

Our GeoMail mashup on GetJar site

Geo Messages approach is growing!

Toggled output

Toggle text in your JSP code (e.g. odd/even rows settings, on/off indicators etc.) - Toggle taglib

Time calculation in JSP

How to calculate time left till the given date: Count Down taglib

History of IT

1960s, Bell Labs, IT department.

CES 2011

CES: CES 2011. Las Vegas, 2011



/via Geo Messages

Where is hot?

Looking for new ideas you do not need to read techcrunch or similar sites. Instead of that, you have to go here, for example: What are the hottest stealth startups in Silicon Valley right now?

Social graph for sites

An updated utility:

Social links

Lets you search sites associated with the given URL (e.g. other sites from the same author) as well as the links (recommendations) in the social networks.

You can directly set your URL and search type in the request too. For example:

mashable.com - more mashables
dzone.com - links to dzone

P.S. check out also Whois for Twitter

Whois for Twitter

Our mashup Info from Twitter has been updated. It lets you pickup from the social graph other resources, associated with the given twitter account. It is a dead simple way to discover who is your new follower and who you to follow to in Twitter. Whois for Twitter.

You can directly type a name for twitter account on the mashup's page or pass it as a parameter:

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

Also here you find an appropriate bookmarklet for this service.