Social links

Our mashup Social links has been updated.

Lets you search for the links (recommendations) in the social networks.

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

news.ycombinator.com - links to Y-combinator

Map with recommendations

Our geo-browsing mashup ForumSquare has been updated. It is some kind of city-forums. Tips from Foursquare mashed up with cloud forums (from Disqus):

You can move map (walk in) from one tip to another, ask questions, see discussions, respond etc.

Right from the map you can see venue page in Foursquare as well search related data in Google blogs and Twitter (via search mashup Got)

In the latest version you can also copy any location you are interested in right to your mobile phone (via QR-code). Just click on the phone-icon near the POI name. QR-code lets you load a mobile map (from Geo Messages project) right to your mobile browser. You can simply bookmark it there for example.

You can use mashup on your own sites (portals). The basic URL accepts the following parameters:

lat - latitude
lng - longitude
hl - language for the Map (e.g. hl=en )

E.g. recommendations in Palo Alto

P.S. See also our previous posts about ForumSquare.

Mobile web pairing

Web pairing for mobile phones. A basic service. It lets you connect two smart phones so you will be able to transfer data from one to another. More precisely – it links two browsers. Actually, you cal link mobile to desktop, desktop to desktop, mobile to smart TV, etc. The key idea is that internet connection should be enough for passing data from one browser to another (from any screen to another screen). There is no need to download applications. Everything should work in the browser.

How does it work? Point two browsers (two phones, for example) to the same URL: http://pair.linkstore.ru

You can use the following QR-code:

 

You can see the following:

The picture will be the same in the second browser. Just a code should be different:

This random code will be used for pairing two devices. It is the schema similar to Bluetooth pairing. On the screen (phone) that should display the data (be linked to another phone/screen in slave mode) type the code presented on the second phone. You do not need to type anything on the second (master) phone.

Now our slave screen is ready to accept data:

As soon as the code in entered, the second screen (master) will be updated automatically:

Type any text and press Push button on the master screen. You (your pal) will see data on the slave screen:

It is a basic example that transfers text data. Technically it is possible to pass any data available in the browser. Subscribe to updates :-)

What are the prototypes? There are two componets in Coldtags suite. Both controls are pre-ajax and use frames but they work. They are Cobrowse and Slide.

Mobile Media Strategies

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Mobile Media Strategies, London 2012



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   MMS 2012

Directory of mashups

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

The latest release includes for example our new web mashup Twicus and TV communication tool based on discussions in Twitter.

SeedCamp

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Seed Camp, London 2012



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   Seed Camp

About TV communication tools

As Google explained, TV no longer commands our undivided attention, with 77% of viewers watching TV with another device in hand. In many cases people search on their devices, inspired by what they see on TV. So, TV applications are opening up a new business frontier for the mobile industry.

For example, TV related Communications tools give users a way to engage with others in social networking conversations or activities related to a program while it is airing on the TV screen, are the most common types of companion products and the easiest to implement. The device and app complement the TV but do not interact with it.

Here is a model example for TV related Communication tool: Second Screen TV. It is a mobile web application that let organize discussions about TV programs. What is inside it? Discussion here is a collection of tweets around some selected hash-tag. Everything starts with TV Guide labeled with hash-tags:

As soon as some program is selected, we can see program related page:

It is a place for program related content, advertising, etc. And this page contains Discuss button. But how our potential user can remember our hash-tag? Here we can use an idea described in the model example for Twitter discussions. He does not need to remember has-tag. During the first visit to that page hash-tag could be printed right in his own timeline. Together with the explanation what is it and what this tag devoted for. It is an analogue of check-in. And for the each subsequent call our application will directly move user to the twitter search for an appropriate hash-tag.

Because tag’s description was published in user’s timeline he will be able find it and return back to that discussion any time later even without visiting our TV guide again.

It is a very simple and easy reproducible way to maintain discussions about TV content, sports events etc.

You can copy sample link to your mobile with the following QR-code:

Big data center

an interesting article: How Disney built a big data platform on a startup budget. The Disney platform has a foundation of Hadoop, Cassandra and MongoDB complemented by a suite of other tools for particular use cases.

Probability and Statistics

A good reference - Probability and Statistics Cookbook

Hadoop on practice

A good collection - Sentiments Analysis with Hadoop

Context-aware applications

A good comparison for context-ware app development on iPhone vs. Android. Simply: there are many things that not available for developers on iPhone. That is, for example, why our SpotEx is Android based.

Ask friends: socialize your mobile search

Our mobile web mashup - Ask friends has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application presents a wrapper for Google (Bing or Yandex) search and lets you share your search query with your friends in Facebook. Mashup simply posts your query on Facebook's wall and redirects you to the search engine. Who will help you the most - search engine (SERP) or your social graph from Facebook?



Mobile site: http://askfriends.linkstore.ru

You can use also the following QR-code:



You can use mashup for creating links in your mobile web pages and directly provide your own query:

http://askfriends.linkstore.ru?q=your_query

Data widgets on Twitter

A couple of examples for data informers based on Twitter: Eurovision and H1N1 (swine flu)

Your own LinkedIn

Our social directory mashup has been updated. Find the right people in your social graph: http://servletsuite.com/fbdir/ See your connections to companies, schools, cities via your friends.

TC Disrupt

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Techcruch Disrupt, SF 2012



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   TC DIscrupt
P.P.S. trends for hackaton: food and photo. Check out our Food from Twitter for example.

Machine Learning in JavaScript

Impressive - Machine Learning algorithms in JavaScript

Photo puzzle for Facebook

Our mashup Puzzle for Facebook has been updated. Lets you create a puzzle with photo from profile.

For example, Mark Zuckerberg

Btw, you can copy puzzle to your mobile phone (via QR-code) and play it there (it is HTML5 and works in mobile browsers)

Social Graph Directory for Facebook

Our mashup Social Graph Directory has been updated. It lets you present your Social Graph data (friend’s data) in the simple tabular form. Answers to the following typical questions: do you have contacts in a particular company, city etc.? Also it lets you see additional info about your friends (like WHOIS for Facebook).

The latest version lets you find classmates and common interests too.

Directory of mashups

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

The latest release includes for example our new web mashup Twicus. It lets you organize discussions in Twitter.