Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Wi-Fi beacons and data

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

UK foresight

Monday, November 26, 2012

Places from Facebook


You are welcome to check out a new version of our mashup Places from Facebook.

Mashup lets you search for places, show them on the map, copy locations to mobile, see friends activity, check-in anywhere as well as prepare mobile web pages for customized check-ins. By default mashup shows places for the local area. But it could be used for any geographical area.

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

lat - latitude
lng - longitude
q - query for search
lang - language code for the map (E.g.: lang=en or lang=de etc.

For example, Facebook in London

For customized check-in place owner (or advertising/marketing agency, for example) can define all the aspects of check-in - data to be posted on user's wall, data to be returned as a confirmation, Google Analytics code for stats monitoring etc. This version provides own analytics for check-ins too. And of course you can still use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

Instead of customized check-ins you can create customized Like buttons for your pages

In other words – any small business can create public (or private) "Foursquare-like" system for own visitors. Using all the power of Facebook’s user base.

Also this version supports the newest API from Facebook - geo-coded postings. Now you can write reviews for Places.

P.S. And here you can see a mobile version for this mashup.

P.P.S. See also QRpon – customized check-ins for Facebook

P.P.P.S. and here you can see Places from Google for the same area.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Popularity versus Similarity in Growing Networks

"Preferential attachment is a powerful mechanism explaining the emergence of scaling in growing networks. If new connections are established preferentially to more popular nodes in a network, then the network is scale-free. Here we show that not only popularity but also similarity is a strong force shaping the network structure and dynamics. We develop a framework where new connections, instead of preferring popular nodes, optimize certain trade-offs between popularity and similarity." - an interesting article about social networks

Friday, November 23, 2012

Forum Oxford


We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is ForumOxford Conference, Oxford 2012



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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Useful bookmarklets

"Bookmarklets are special links that users can add to their browser’s favorites. These special links include code (i.e. not just a target URL), and they trigger various kinds of useful functionality, allowing you to modify and extend any web page." - it is what they typically do.

Check out our updated directory of bookmarklets. The latest version includes building Custom Like pages for any opened URL, for example.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

See, who is coming

"Cisco on Thursday announced new location-based analytics technology intended to help retailers better understand consumer behavior and deliver more compelling experiences, including personalized advertising. The new offering is also designed to help businesses and institutions capitalize on existing infrastructure by transforming the Wi-Fi networks they already maintain into revenue-generating vehicles." - from here. Here is a link to Cisco blog.

So, we were right with our SpotEx approach.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Likenomics

Sure, you’ve seen advertising campaigns asked you to Like some resource (e.g. Facebook Page) in exchange for some benefits.

Now you can do it yourself. Our mashup Like Me has been updated. It lets you define your own reactions for Like buttons. More precisely, this mashup creates mobile web page that shows your own content to the visitors liked some predefined resource.

The usage model is obvious: ask visitors to like your resource and show something interesting after that (e.g. coupon, discount info) or let him download some file (report) or simply redirect user to any web resource by your choose.

Mashup lets you customize all the aspects for such usage: what should be on the original site, what resource (URL) should be liked as well as define your "after like" actions.

Mashup creates mobile web page (could be opened in any HTML5 mobile web browser). You can use link to that page in your own mobile sites (portals) or present it directly to your mobile visitors (e.g., via QR-code). You can track the perfomance for this page with Google Analytics.

Like button on the generated pages shows also the list of friends liked the selected resource. So, this system works automatically as a simple recommendation system too.

Here is an example of custom page created with this mobile web sites generation tool: 2 for 1 tasting coupon. You can check it out right from your mobile:
QR code

P.S. from the similar projects:

how to customize check-ins
how to customize data sharing in Facebook
Like for real objects

AllFacebook Marketing Conrefence


We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is AllFacebook Marketing Conference, London 2012



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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Asterisk Web Gate

Our Asterisk stuff has been updated. See here a new approach for telecom services development in Asterisk. Code (LGPL) is hosted on Google projects.

Asterisk web gate lets you turn telecom services development into an ordinary web development. Any telecom service there is just a CGI script.

See also the previous posting about new approach for telecom services development

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Open Government


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



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Attract more likes

Sure, you’ve seen advertising campaigns asked you to Like some resource (e.g. Facebook Page) in exchange for some benefits.

Now you can do it yourself. Our mashup Like Me has been updated. It lets you define your own reactions for Like buttons. More precisely, this mashup creates mobile web page that shows your own content to the visitors liked some predefined resource.

The usage model is obvious: ask visitors to like your resource and show something interesting after that (e.g. coupon, discount info) or let him download some file (report) or simply redirect user to any web resource by your choose.

Mashup lets you customize all the aspects for such usage: what should be on the original site, what resource (URL) should be liked as well as define your "after like" actions.

Mashup creates mobile web page (could be opened in any HTML5 mobile web browser). You can use link to that page in your own mobile sites (portals) or present it directly to your mobile visitors (e.g., via QR-code).

Like button on the generated pages shows also the list of friends liked the selected resource. So, this system works automatically as a simple recommendation system too.

Here is an example of custom page created with this mobile web sites generation tool: 2 for 1 tasting coupon. You can check it out right from your mobile:
QR code

P.S. from the similar projects:

how to customize check-ins
how to customize data sharing in Facebook
Like for real objects

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Open Mobile Summit


We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Open Mobile Summit, San Francisco 2012



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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

NOAH Conference


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



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P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   NOAH Conference