Saturday, April 30, 2011

Google + Twitter

Our mashup GoT (Google + Twitter search) has been updated.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Photo map

Our mashup Photo map has been updated. It lets you see real time photos from Twitter on Google map

You can directly describe an area for photos. Base URL accepts the following parameters:
lat - latitude
lng - longitude
zml - zoom level
mrk - (1/0) - show or not a marker at the center of map

For example: live photos from London

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Directory of mashups

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

The Next Web 2011

We continue to publish links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is The Next Web, Amsterdam, 2011



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta The Next Web

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Mobile discussions

"A mobile web app for getting local answers to local questions. It uses the browser geo-location API to connect users with local online forums. Built with Google Fusion tables for data and Disqus for forums." - our mashup Geo forums on WapReview

AppNation 2011

We continue to publish links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is AppNation 2011, San Francisco, 2011



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta Appnation

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Geo Search

Our mashup Geo search has been updated. Local news illustrated by the local photos. Just click on the map for the place you are interested in.

You can provide the following optional parameters for the base URL:

lat - initial latitude for the map
lng - initial longitude
zml - zoom level

Also mashup supports language settings for the map. Parameter's name is - hl. For example:

http://geo.linkstore.ru?hl=ru
http://geo.linkstore.ru?hl=en etc.

Monday, April 25, 2011

JSOS ver. 7.25

Coldbeans Software announced the next milestone in JSOS (servlets office suite) development. JSOS reaches the version 7.25.

This largest collection of Java servlets and filters provides 150+ "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 mobile web, 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 of Java Servlets Office Suite here: http://www.servletsuite.com

Sunday, April 24, 2011

About Google Fusion Tables

"Fusion Tables is a modern data management web application making it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Follow the steps below to upload your own data to Fusion Tables and create a map!" - a good tutorial from Google

P.S. We are using Google Fusion Tables in Mobile geo-forums.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Java forums

It is better late than never. Our Forum servlet supports CSS configuration.

Custom mobile maps

Just for the memory - interesting company: they develop mobile applications with custom maps

Friday, April 22, 2011

Buy and sell on Twitter

Our mashup Buy-Sell has been updated. Lets you match 'buy' and 'sell' twits.

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

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Blinking phone

QR code
Blinking phone.

http://servletsuite.com/blink.htm

(it is a mobile site). This is a simple HTML5 mobile web application that lets you create blinking phone. The full screen is flashing with the selected color. Try it with your iPhone, Android etc.

Flash-mob organizer, voting tool, taxi call at night etc.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Free HTML5 templates

A new set of free HTML5 templates

Where 2.0

We continue to publish links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Where 2.0, Santa Clara , 2011



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta Where 2.0

Monday, April 18, 2011

Photo map

Our mashup Photo map has been updated. It lets you see real time photos from Twitter on Google map

You can directly describe an area for photos. Base URL accepts the following parameters:
lat - latitude
lng - longitude
zml - zoom level
mrk - (1/0) - show or not a marker at the center of map

Google exodus

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Mobile for retail

AT&T is announcing a new service, powered by mobile commerce software platform Digby, which helps retailers design, deploy and manage mobile commerce web sites and rich applications optimized for smartphones - /via techcrunch

P.S. our QRpon service is on the right track :)

Friday, April 15, 2011

Development paradigms

"LAMP architectures are dead because few web applications want to ship full payloads of markup to the client in response to a small event; they want to update just a fragment of the DOM, using Javascript. AJAX achieved this, but when your server-side LAMP templates are 10% HTML and 90% Javascript, it’s clear that you’re doing it wrong.

To recognize this means shifting our view of the server from a document courier (HTML Age), or a template renderer (LAMP Age), to a function and data shipper. The principal role of the server is to ship an application to the client (Javascript), along with data (JSON), and let the client weave those into a DOM." - a great article about development paradigms changes.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Directory of mashups

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

Mobile web development

Interesting blog about mobile web development from author of HTML5 Boilerplate

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

IP filter

Restrict access to your Java web applications by IP address - IP filter

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Geo forums

QR code
Geo forums.
Mobile mashup introduces free discussions (forums) associated with geo locations. It is HTML5 mobile web applications, so this application works on any phone with HTML5 browser (iPhone, Android)

http://mtalk.linkstore.ru

(it is a mobile site).

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

It is cloud based implementation. Mashup saves data in Google Fusion tables and uses forums from Disqus.

P.S. related links:

City forums - mashup combines places from Foursquare and cloud forums from Disqus.
Geo chat - web chat with geo locations

Monday, April 11, 2011

Mobile bookmarks for locations

Our mashup Location bookmark has been updated. It lets you create two things:

1) QR code for mobile map associated with the given address
2) HTML for putting that QR code on your site

So with this tool you can place on your own site (blog etc.) – e.g. somewhere in Contacts or About pages QR code for any given address (e.g. address of your company, office etc.). And any visitor of your site will be able simply to scan this code and load that map right into own phone. So they (visitors) do not need to write/print/remember your address/driving directions anymore. He/she can just load an appropriate mobile map right from your site. Loaded map could be simply bookmarked on the phone (loaded map is just URL).
And driving directions as well as many other interesting things will come automatically with the mobile map (we are using Geo Messages).

Of course, QR code created with this mashup could be placed anywhere. E.g. add it to some article in your blog, print and place it on the wall etc. Also QR – code is just a view that simplify loading of some mobile-friendly URL with map. Actually mashups creates at the first hand that URL and after that creates QR-code for it. So you can publish in your blog a mobile-friendly URL too. Your mobile readers will be able to open that URL directly.

P.S. similar projects:

QR map - lets you create QR code right from the map. This mashup also can create a link to mobile friendly map (iPhone, Android).
Mecard - lets you create QR code for loading address data (contact info) right from your site
Location from Twitter - lets you copy address info from Twitter (via QR-code again)
Tips - lets you copy address data right from social recommendations (Foursquare).

Friday, April 08, 2011

PaaS for Java

"This article compares three major Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings for Java™ developers: Google App Engine for Java, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, and CloudBees RUN@Cloud. It analyzes each service's unique technical approach, strengths, and weaknesses, and also discusses common workarounds. Learn the basic concepts underlying Java PaaS and understand how to choose a service that suits your development needs." - a good reading from IBM about PaaS for Java applications.

Note, that RUN@Cloud offers free service. Will try them ...

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Mobile discussions

Our mashup Mobile forum has been updated. Mashup provides a new creation tool for mobile sites. It lets you create a mobile web page for the discussions (via Disqus API) and an appropriate QR-code for the quick access. Just place this code on any real (physical) object and you (your customers, visitors etc.) will get a forum for this object. Tested for HTML5 mobile browsers (iPhone, Android, Bada, Opera 10.1 etc.).

You can add Google Analytics code to the generated page and see your stats.

Similar applications from our directory:

Geo talk - discussions on the map
City forum - Places + discussions
Place card - Facebook Like button for the real objects
QR-code maker - mobilize your content with QR codes

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

About Google Talk Guru

Google has quietly launched Google Talk Guru, an instant message chatbot that can deliver search results and answer queries such as sports scores.

Yet another IM bot? Hey, even our project Twitter 411 is much more advanced. It supports programming models. In other words, you can program your own bots.
And all this for the big Twitter audience. There is even own Talk bot, programmed by this approach

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Like for real objects

Our mashup Place card has been updated. Lets you place Facebook Like button on the physical object.

Mashup creates QR-code for mobile page (and that page itself, of course) with Facebook's Like button. As soon as QR-code (e.g. placed on the product's wrap) is scanned and an appropriate URL is opened in the mobile browser we can show Like counts. And of course, mobile user will see who from his/her friends likes that too. As a result – we have a simple recommendation system on the base things from Facebook.

It is possible also to check out stats for created pages (we are using FBstat here)

Monday, April 04, 2011

Day in Twitter

A picture is worth a thousand words. Our mashup Twitter's day in photos has been updated.

It presents for you trends in Twitter, illustrated by the Twitter's photos.

Technically it is based on our photo search for Twitter

Saturday, April 02, 2011

Search in blogs

Our mashup GoT has been updated. It is a parallel search in Twitter and Google blogs.

Friday, April 01, 2011

Images search for Twitter

Our mashup Photos from Twitter has been updated. Lets you search photos from Twitter timeline. The newest version includes improved search algorithm and fixed sharing functionality.

Also you can set initial parameters for your search. For example the above-mentioned script lets you pass the following parameters:

lat - latitude for search area
lng - longitude for search area
q - query string

For example:

Photos from London

Cats

Soup

P.S. You can also see pictures right on the map with the following mashup: Photo-map