Search for online courses

Our mashup based on Google Custom Search Engine - Search for Online Courses. 110 sites. And you can discuss search results right on the page via TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Search for online courses

Our mashup based on Google Custom Search Engine - Search for Online Courses. 105+ sites. And discuss your result right on the page via TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Educational courses

Search for online courses. 95+ sites. And you can discuss your results right on the site via TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Online courses

Search for online courses. 90+ sites. And you can discuss your results right on the site via TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Search for online courses

Our mashup based on Google Custom Search Engine - Search for Online Courses. And discuss your result right on the page with TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Long live WATN

Google Latitude will be retired on August 9th, 2013. Products being retired include Google Latitude in Google Maps for Android, Latitude for iPhone, the Latitude API, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude. - from here.

Long live WATN. It is a new model for location sharing.

For Google Scholar

It looks like a parser in Google Scholar has got some problems. Two missed papers:

Dmitry Namiot, Manfred Schneps-Schneppe "Smart Cities Software from the developer's point of view", International Conference on Applied Information and Communication Technologies (AICT2013), 25-26. April, 2013, Jelgava, Latvia, pp.238-245.

Alla Qoussini, Yousef Daradkeh and Dmitry Namiot "Location Sharing Without Central Server", IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 10, Issue 2, No 3, March 2013, pp. 138-144

Two years

Two years ago I've posted a bug in Android browser with parsing SMS URI. This issue is still open: "Come on guys. 10 year old phones support this but not Android?"

P.S. answering to "security reasons" questions: SMS URI does not send SMS actually. It opens SMS client only. We've used it in Geo Messages (add location link to the messages)

Asterisk Web Development

As some add-on to our previos post about telecom development with Asterisk - one old article.

Yousef Daradkeh, Andrei Ustinov, Dmitry Namiot The Asterisk as a platform for the development of telecommunication services. MSU conference, 2008

London illustrated

Our London on Twitter mashup has been updated. See the latest illustrated city news in the real time. Web mashup: Google Maps, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare

On my way

Our mashup On my way has been updated. Need to find something on your way to home, to work or to school? Mashup MyWay lets you combine the driving directions on Google Maps and local search together. So, you will see points of interest as well as driving directions on the same map.

What is new in this version:

- see Wikipedia / Panoramio data on your way
- use walking routes
- set "Via" point when you need pass through the particular address
- get any address just by the click on the map (reverse geocoding)

Local news: Geo Search

Our mashup Geo search has been updated. Lets you see local news from Google illustrated by the local photos from Twitter. 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

For example: London

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.

Street View Image API

Google provided Google Street View Image API. It is like static maps from Google – you can get a static image for Street View panorama.

Here is a simple mashup that lets you see static panoramic images from your phone: http://linkstore.ru/panorama (it is a mobile site).

You can use also the following QR-code:



Try it with your HTML5 mobile browser (iPhone, Android, Bada, etc.). Mashup lets you see panoramic images for your current place (try to compare what you can see in real with Google’s data :). Mashup displays images as indicates the compass heading of the camera.

Tweet Street View

Drive the streets and read the tweets. Our mashup for Google Street View and Twitter – Tweet Street View has been updated.

Drive or walk with Street View and see tweets nearby. You can see Street View and either an appropriate map or a list of nearby messages from Twitter. So, you can read the latest real-time news for the places you are in with Street View.

By default mashup shows some predefined sites and you can see your own location. Just pass your latitude/longitude pair to the URL. Parameters are

lat - latitude
lng - longitude

So, it looks like this:

http://tsv.linkstore.ru?lat=YOUR_LATITUDE&lng=YOUR_LONGITUDE

E.g. drive through El Camino Real

Technically it is Google Street View (via Gmaps utils) + Twitter search + several mashups from our directory.

Go Chrome

Our first dive into Chrome extensions: Local map with local data

Lets you see a snippet for local map, your position (latitude, longitude) as well as real time local news (illustrated twitter stream + local search)

Directory of mashups

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

The latest release includes our context-aware applications (WiFi Chat) and Google Plus API test (photo puzzle), for example

Google Plus photo puzzle

A puzzle from Google Plus profile's image: Restore the Google+er. Just set profile ID or any Google Plus related URL and get a puzzle created from user's profile.

By default shows a puzzle of Google's CEO. You can directly set Google+ ID (or URL) in your request. For example:

http://gpuzzle.linkstore.ru?u=106772153441863846202

Time killer for Google+ fans.

P.S. you can see the similar photo puzzle for Facebook

Peer to peer location sharing

We are not alone with our Geo Messages

"Services like Loopt and Google Latitude can broadcast a user’s location constantly, but that can eat into battery life and can also prompt privacy concerns. By pulling location rather than pushing it out, Echoecho lets people control when and how they make that information available to others. And since it can be used without both parties owning the app or joining a social network, it’s a simple way to provide location updates." - well said!

Glad to see Google Ventures agreed with our opinion about peer to peer location sharing.

You can see also the presentation from ICUMT-2010:

Geo messages approach

View more presentations from Coldbeans Software

New GAE pricing

A very good overview for new pricing model of GAE

Excessive instances cost:

sudden parallelism
idle instance setting
decrease response time
other?

And by the way, Google App Engine becomes much more complex to deal with ...

Social graph and social links for sites

Our mashup Social graph for sites has been updated.

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

You can check out Google+ profiles with this tool. For example:

+Mike Butcher

P.S. check out also:

Whois for Twitter
Whois for Facebook