All the places nearby

You are welcome to check out an updated version of our mobile web mashup - FrontPlace. Lets you see nearby places and get info about them from Facebook, Google, Bing and Yandex (russian search engine). Check it out from your HTML5 browser: iPhone, Android, Samsung Bada or Opera 10.1+

http://linkstore.ru/frontplace

(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/xbf3uc.

Technically this implementation uses location data from Facebook.

P.S. check out also Mobile geo chat for quick communications

P.P.S. and here you can get a desktop version of Places for Facebook mashup.

Wi-Fi Chat review

Have you ever imagined making an extensive use of the WiFi of your Android device and turn it into an online friend finder? It might sound a bit odd but with WiFi Chat, you can now find people that are present around the same WiFi access point as yours and indulge in a friendly chit-chat with them. This amazing app from Coldbeans works quite smoothly and serves as a readily available chatting platform for the users. With WiFi Chat, you can share stories, gossips and pleasantries with your friends and strangers alike without having to send text messages over your mobile network. WiFi Chat automatically detects any active WiFi connections around you and enables you to sign in to the respective service with a preferred username. WiFi Chat connects you to the developer’s website where you can create new forums and share the topics of your liking with other people across the globe (just like in case of real time web-based forums). - /via AddictiveTips.
It is about our Wi-Fi chat mashup.

Tracking everything

Placeme for iOS and Android may be both the scariest and amazingly futuristic smartphone app I’ve seen yet. The free software uses every sensor in your handset to track your activities, location and environment - via gigaom.

I have no idea what is so dramatic and scary for article's author. What is a problem in anonymous tracking records? Btw, mobile operator can do almost the same having all your identity in the same time.

About M2M standards

Our presentation for BCFIC-2012

About M2M standards and their possible extensions

View more presentations from Coldbeans Software.

A new chip for indoor positioning

Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and out.

The unprecedented accuracy of the Broadcom 4752 chip results from the sheer breadth of sensors from which it can process information. It can receive signals from global navigation satellites, cell-phone towers, and Wi-Fi hot spots, and also input from gyroscopes, accelerometers, step counters, and altimeters. - via MIT Technology Review

Proximity as a service

Our presentation for BCFIC-2012

Proximity as a service

View more PowerPoint from Coldbeans Software

Never Eat Alone

It is a popular rule for the networking - never eat alone. And here is an updated version of mobile service for support: Never Eat Alone - 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:

You can use this mashup in your own mobile sites (portals, services). Just set a link to NEA service in your area. The basic URL accepts the following optional parameters:

lat - latitude for search
lng - longitude for search

For example: NEA in Palo Alto

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

Coldbeans on SlideShare

Hi coldbeans, Congrats! Your documents on SlideShare have had 10,000 views. Wow! You must be doing something great. Only a very few SlideShare users achieve this milestone.

Coldbeans on SlideShare

Mining Approach for Discovering Similar Mobile Users

"Discovering similar users with respect to their habits plays an important role in a wide range of applications, such as collaborative filtering for recommendation, user segmentation for market analysis, etc. Recently, the progressing ability to sense user contexts of smart mobile devices makes it possible to discover mobile users with similar habits by mining their habits from their mobile devices. However, though ome researchers have proposed effective methods for mining user habits such as behavior pattern mining, how to leverage the mined results for discovering similar users remains less explored. To this end, we propose a novel approach for conquering the sparseness of behavior pattern space and thus make it possible to discover similar mobile users with respect to their habits by leveraging behavior pattern mining." - an interesting article from WWW-2012

Btw, we do the similar things with our SpotEx approach

On the ideas of Spotex

"Location services company Navizon has a new system, called Navizon I.T.S., that could allow tracking of visitors in malls, museums, offices, factories, secured areas and just about any other indoor space. It could be used to examine patterns of foot traffic in retail spaces, assure that a museum is empty of visitors at closing time, or even to pinpoint the location of any individual registered with the system. But let's set all that aside for a minute while we freak out about the privacy implications." - from here

Actually it tracks the open Wi-Fi on mobile phones. Our Spotex solves the reverse task - scans Wi-Fi access nodes from the mobile.

See also discussion on YCombinator

Geo Mail

Our mashup Geo Mail has been updated. It is a mobile web application (HTML5), lets you add a digital signature (link) with your location info to email messages on your mobile platform. It works on any mobile platform with HTML5 support: iPhone, Android, Samsung etc.

You can load and bookmark mobile URL with the following short link: http://bit.ly/a52Ta1 or with the QR-code below:


You can use this mashup in your web applications via adding links for Geo Mail to your web pages. The basic URL accepts the following optional parameters:

to - email (list of emails) for sending
сс - СС header
bcc - BCC header
subject - subject for your letter. By default it is: I am here
body - an initial text for sending
lat - a latitude for sharing
lng - a longitude for sharing

For example: Mail to developers

P.S. btw, there is a useful trick with mobile email. You can send email message not only to some person, but to service too. For example, Facebook lets you update status info by email (see https://m.facebook.com/upload.php regarding service email for your account). If you send status mail via Geo Mail mashup than you can share your location info with your Facebook social graph. Yet another implementation for Places.

/via Geo Messages service

Never eat alone

It is a popular rule for the networking - never eat alone. And here is an updated version of mobile service for support: Never Eat Alone - 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, Frontplace, City Chat, City Forum, Geo chat и food from Twitter.

Share location info in Twitter

Our mashup Twitter location has been updated. It lets you publish geo-related information to Twitter. It is not about geo tagging in Twitter. Actually users do not need to geo-enable their accounts. Twitter location is just a way for publish messages (statuses) with some geo-related data. Click on the map and mashup will prepare for you a link to appropriate Google Map.
The goal is very clean – simplify Twitter publishing for messages (statuses) where location info (place) is important.
Mashup does not request any authorization, the actual publishing will be performed via the standard Twitter client.

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

lat - an initial latitude (where to show the map)
lng - an initial longitude
zml - an initial zoom level
t - a message that will be added to any published status

For example, suppose we are creating some information system that collects information for discounts. We can choose a hash tag #discount and use the following URL for publishing locations with discounts:

http://twitloc.linkstore.ru?t=%23discount

(%23 – is just encoded #).

Etc.

A reference to the map will be published in the mobile-friendly format. We are using Mobile map here.

Our mobile web-mashup (HTML5) Geo Twit has been updated too. It lets you publish a link to your current location in Twitter timeline right from the phone (iPhone, Android, Samsung etc). In other words, without the changing your account settings (enabling location) you can simply publish once a link to your location. Some form of mobile check-in for Twitter. Mobile site:

http://servletsuite.com/geotwit

You can use also the following short URL http://bit.ly/dCnvBj, or load it via the following QR-code:



You can use this mashup in your own mobile portals too (just place a link to Geo Twit). It accepts the following optional parameters:

t - text for your message (status)
u - Twitter user for sending message to

For example: Geo Twit

/via Geo Messages

Places

Our mobile mashup Places has been updated.

Twitter Places, Facebook Places, Google Places etc. Everybody is implementing Places service nowadays. So we simply could not be out of that movement. They left no choice for us. It is much easier to implement it rather than explain why not. So with the help of Foursquare, YQL and Geo Messages we build the following mobile mashup:


http://places.linkstore.ru (it is a mobile link).
Also you can use QR code above for loading that URL.

It works on any mobile phone with HTML5 browser (iPhone, Android, Samsung etc.). Lets you see nearby places, see info in Google, Bing or Yandex (russian search engine) as well as share your location info via Email, SMS, Twitter and Facebook. You can share your location info in the form of place, rather than latitude/longitude pair. Service does not require any authorization and does not reveal your private data. And if Foursquare's data is not enough you can switch to Facebook places right from this mashup.

FrontPlaces - all the places nearby

You are welcome to check out an updated version of our mobile web mashup - FrontPlace. Lets you see nearby places and get info about them from Facebook, Google, Bing and Yandex (russian search engine). Check out it from your HTML5 browser: iPhone, Android, Samsung Bada or Opera 10.1+

http://linkstore.ru/frontplace

(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/xbf3uc.

P.S. check out also Mobile geo chat for quick communications

P.P.S. and here you can get a desktop version of Places for Facebook mashup.

Lesser-known ways to extract insight from data

How to present the facts extracted from big data? Currently, the lion's share of the attention is focused on ways to analyze and crunch data, but very little has been done to help communicate results of big data analysis. - an interesting read about Data as seeds of content

Big Data and LBS

Hadoop, Pig and Geo data - an interesting presentation from Where 2.0 conference:

Where 2012 prototyping workshop

View more presentations from Matt Biddulph

How to share location info via Twitter

Our mashup Twitter location has been updated. It lets you publish geo-related information to Twitter. It is not about geo tagging in Twitter. Actually users do not need to geo-enable their accounts. Twitter location is just a way for publish messages (statuses) with some geo-related data. Click on the map and mashup will prepare for you a link to appropriate Google Map.
The goal is very clean – simplify Twitter publishing for messages (statuses) where location info (place) is important.
Mashup does not request any authorization, the actual publishing will be performed via the standard Twitter client.

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

lat - an initial latitude (where to show the map)
lng - an initial longitude
zml - an initial zoom level
t - a message that will be added to any published status


For example, suppose we are creating some information system that collects information for discounts. We can choose a hash tag #discount and use the following URL for publishing locations with discounts:

http://twitloc.linkstore.ru?t=%23discount

(%23 – is just encoded #).

Etc.

A reference to the map will be published in the mobile-friendly format. We are using Mobile map here.

Our mobile web-mashup (HTML5) Geo Twit has been updated too. It lets you publish a link to your current location in Twitter timeline right from the phone (iPhone, Android, Samsung etc). In other words, without the changing your account settings (enabling location) you can simply publish once a link to your location. Some form of mobile check-in for Twitter. Mobile site:

http://servletsuite.com/geotwit

You can use also the following short URL http://bit.ly/dCnvBj, or load it via the following QR-code:



/via Geo Messages

Ask friends

"AskFriends - socialize your search. AskFriends is a wrapper for Google search lets you share your search query with your friends on Facebook. The mashup posts your query on your Facebook wall and redirects you to Google's search engine results page. Who will help you the most, Google or a friend?" - our mashup Ask freinds on WapReview.

FrontPlace

"FrontPlace - geo-location enabled mashup that lets you see nearby places and get info about them from Facebook, Google and the Russian search engine Yandex. Works with browsers that support HTML5 geo-location including the iPhone, Android, Samsung Bada or Opera 10.1+" - our mashup FrontPlace on WapReview.