Twitter photo stream

Our mashup Pictures from Twitter has been updated. Now you can also search (filter) images by the keywords. You can type search words right on the site or pass them to mashup's URL directly (in query string). It could be useful when/if you are creating links. Parameter’s name is q

For example:

Cats on Twitter

Other parameters let you restrict search to some geographical area. And you can provide geo coordinates for this area (its center):

lat - latitude
lng - longitude

Например:

Photo - London

SQL to Hadoop

"More organizations, small and large, are interested in moving their data from SQL relational databases to an Apache Hadoop back end. Although SQL is always a solid option in many cases, Hadoop has advantages in data processing that are battle-tested by several major web properties. These days it seems that Hadoop is the best game in town for "Big Data" handling. For users that want to either experiment with Hadoop or put it into production-use, there are a couple of tools available for migrating SQL data to Hadoop. They include: Cloudera's Sqoop, cascading.jdbc, and cascading-dbmigrate." - see details here

Share location

"This mobile application has one simple but effective feature, it allows you to save a location in Google Maps. So for example, when you park your car you can find your way back to it's exact location. Or, imagine you have checked into a hotel in an unfamiliar city, you can store the hotel's location and always be able to find your way back no matter where you wander." - our mashup Mobile maps on Google Maps Mania.

Twitter taglib

Web-control lets you work with Twitter right from JSP code - Twitter taglib.

Our5 own server-side Twitter mashups (e.g. Twitter 411) use this component.

Web application security hole scanner

A new open source web application security hole scanner is available from Google. The tool, named Skipfish, allows web developers to test their applications for possible vulnerabilities. Skipfish can be used to determine if code is vulnerable to common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL, and XML injection attacks. See it here.

Plumbs

Interesting jQuery plugin - lets you create plumbs in HTML (connect elements in pipes style)

Going West

Our US partner OMOLI, Inc provides a store for components in Coldtags suite here. So, if this sales channel is more convenient for you than you are welcome. We do support all customers.

Cassandra data models

Data models in Apache Cassandra. NoSQL is really hot topic. Would you like to see NoSQL components in our Coldtags suite?

Custom search on Twitter

What and where: flu on Twitter

Where is my car?

Mobile service 'Car parking place' via our mashup Mobile map. This service lets you save your parking place right on the map and find it later easily. Screenshots, step by step:

1. Open the web page in your HTML5 mobile browser (iPhone, Android, Bada). The draggable red marker shows your current location:



2. Set the place (location) you need and hit on the marker. You will see an information window lets you create a new map with the saved location. Link email lets you send that new map by email (you can send to your own address too by the way), sms link lets you share your map via SMS (of course, if your phone does support it, like S60 platform for example) and link will simply open a new map in your mobile browser (it is the most convenient way for this task - just save the map in your bookmarks).



3. After that, any time later when that page is opened you will see two markers on it - saved location and your current location.



4. You can even click on the marker for saved location and draw a route to it (for walk or drive):



and



You can load this web application via the following short URL: http://bit.ly/7zu3iY

or scan it via the following QR-code:

Mobilize your content

Yet another way for setting RSS on mobile - mobilerss.

P.S. Our own mobilizers currently use transcoding from Google. See for example Mobile pages and QR-code maker.

Eurovision

Custom search in Twitter - Eurovision

Tables 2.0

jQuery plugins lets you add a lot of features to old HTML tables.

MyMaps for mobile

MyMaps for mobile mashup: http://mymap.linkstore.ru (it is a mobile link). Lets you create maps right on the mobile (iPhone, Android, S60). No registration required. Just set a location, get unique link to your map and bookmark it in your browser. Also you can share created maps with friends/partners (email, SMS, Facebook, Google Buzz).
For example, the simplest use case: bookmark your car parking location and find your car easily.
You can load this application right to your phone with QR code above or use this short link: http://bit.ly/by2VKt

Directory of mashups

Our directory of mashups has been updated. Check out for example a new MyMap mashup - mobile (iPhone, Android, S60) maps mashup lets you create and share maps right from mobile.

JavaScript geo coding

Pure JavaScript geo-coding - YQL

Geo-coding component

Geo-coding services from Google have been updated. 2500 requests per day, XML and JSON. And no more developers keys by the way.

And here you can see custom JSP taglib for geocoding. And it is not only for Google. See more here. For example, our mashup Geo Trace uses them.

CUMP

What is going after LAMP :-)

P.S.

LAMP, an acronym for Linux Apache MySQL PHP, happens to be most common server side solution stack.
CUMP i is an acronym for Cherokee Ubuntu MariaDB PHP. It seems to be a very promising contender in becoming the popular solution stack of the future.

to NoSQL

Interesting read: mapping SQL operators to MongoDB

Coldtags suite ver. 3.90

Coldtags suite reaches ver. 3.90. This suite provides 390+ custom taglibs for JSP (and/or Coldfusion) developers.
Among the others updates check out updated Ajax components. For example a new JSONP component.

Tlink: Strip clutter & view only links on any Twitter stream

"There are a lot of interesting links shared in Twitter accounts that you miss out on because of all the clutter, especially if you are following a lot of people. Going through all the tweets to find those links can be tedious. Links in Twitter is a Twitter mashup that allows you to view the links that have been posted on a specific user’s account plus his friends’ account. With this app you can browse recent links posted in Twitter’s timeline." - our mashup Links in Twitter on MakeUseOf site.

Record audio files in browser

Sweet HTML5 future: record audio files right in browser. Flash caput?

How to share your location

Our GeoPost mashup has been updated. Idea is very simple. Many modern blog platforms (most of them actually) let you publish data by email. You can just send email to some service address and platform transforms it into a new post. For example, in Posterous you can send data to post@your_blog.posterours.com, in Friendfeed it is share@friendfeed.com, in Blogger you can set address in Settings->Email&Mobile tab etc.

And our mashup Geo posts lets you create a personalized mobile web application for posting geo related data to your blog. Just set a service email address in the form below and get a link to mobile web application for iPhone, Android or S60 platform. This web application lets you email new postings right from the map - just click on the draggable marker that presents your location. And application automatically adds to email a link to the location. So your posts will have a direct link to some map. It is probably the easiest way for sharing locations, write about some check-ins, lets your readers to see the place you are writing about etc.

Also you can create with this mashup your own emergency communication tool. You can predefine not only email address for sending your location but a phone number for SMS too. So you will be able to share your location via email/sms just in one click.

Mashup creates a personal link for your geo-sharing application as well as QR code for loading this link right into your mobile.

For gmail users mashup supports Google Buzz posting too.

Wire framing

"A wireframe in essence, is a visual representation, guide, and basic element structure of a websites interface design. Wireframes are usually the product of an idea that’s later reproduced on paper (or screen) so that they can preserve and maintain the consistency of visual similarities throughout a websites design. Not only that, but wireframing allows us to save valuable time and money. Deciding to create a website without planning, many times results in a very poorly functional interface. This will ultimately drive users away from your website, and tarnish the quality of your brand." - a very useful collection of prototyping services.

Link to remote

Ajax control for JSP (and/or Coldfusion) in Ruby_on_Rails style: Link to remote.

Getting Real about NoSQL

"The ACID RDBMS isn’t appropriate for every need, nor is the NoSQL solution.
A social media site is not an inventory system. A banking account management system is not a social news aggregator." - from here. More than reasonable remarks about NoSQL buzz.

Mobilize your content

Our mashup QR code maker has been updated. Just type (and/or copy/paste) any text, maybe with some links inside, and get two things:

a) mobile web page for this content
b) QR code for loading this page right into your phone (mobile browser)

What is else? You can share this mobile page with your friend right from the mobile (email, sms). You can add files to your page, so they will become downloadable right from that page. Actually you can even use this tool just for sharing your files.

During the mobile page generation mashup automatically proceeds links in the text. You can even add mobile transcoding to the links make content available via mobiles.

Another interesting option is one time readable pages. You can create a page (or downloadable content) that will be destroyed after the first reading. So this option could be used for premium content for example.

Job trends

IT in job trends. JSP is still alive, JSF is still dead.

P.S. have you seen the latest version of Coldtags suite?

How to server static content

From a performance perspective, the trouble with cookies is that once the server sets a cookie for a particular domain, all subsequent HTTP requests for that domain must include the cookie. Even if the server has no use for the cookie, as is usually the case with static components, the cookie is sent over the wire anyway, bloating our request headers with useless code.

So serving static content (e.g. images, css etc.) from a cookieless domain is a standard performance best practice. See more details here.

And JSOS provides several components lets you share your content across several servers. See for example: Load balance and Moved permanently servlets.

QR code taglib

QR code taglib has been updated. For example, add bookmarks QR code etc. See more details here.

P.S. and do not forget to check out our QR code maker.

How to mobilize your site

Yet another collection of web tools let you create mobile sites (in the most cases - mobile versions for the existing sites).

P.S. and our 2c:

QR code maker - mobile landing pages for any content
Mobile pages - create mobile services
Mobile video - create mobile video-sites

JSOS ver. 6.70

Coldbeans Software announced the next milestone in JSOS (servlets office suite) development. JSOS reaches the version 6.70. This largest collection of Java servlets and filters provides 140+ "out of the box" components ready for building web-pages. See it here

Photo map

Nice tool lets you publish big photos on the map. The Google Map Image Cutter is an application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map. Using this tool, large images can be published on the web in a format that allows the user to pan and zoom using the standard Google Maps interface.

Geo mail

Geo Mail provides an email form where you type your message title and body and choose whether you want to include a link to either a scrollable or static Google map or just your latitude and longitude. When you hit the "Send" button GeoMail opens your device's default Email app with the message and location information pre-populated, all you have to do is specify the recipient and send the email. Our Geo mail mashup on Wap Review site.

Weather from Google

A new component in our Coldtags suite: Google weather taglib. Lets you obtain weather info (current data and forecast) right from Google.

HTTP proxy 2.0

Our HTTP proxy servlet - probably one of the most used Java proxy solutions has been updated.

Check out for example an initial parameter headers. Now you can transparently get the headers (e.g. cookies) from the requested party.

Lists in Twitter

Our Twitter lists mashup has been updated. Lets you extract top links from twitter's lists.

In-place edit

In-place edit area in your JSP (and/or Coldfusion) pages - Editable Div taglib

Default parameters

Java servlets filter lets you add default parameters to the requests. E.g. a wrapping (facade) for the existing application that expects to get some predefined set of parameters etc. And now you can even set dynamic values for default parameters. See details here.

Post your geo data

Many modern blog platforms (most of them actually) let you publish data by email. You can just send email to some service address and platform transforms it into a new post. For example, in Posterous you can send data to post@your_blog.posterours.com, in Friendfeed it is share@friendfeed.com, in Blogger you can set address in Settings->Email&Mobile tab etc.

A new mashup Geo posts lets you create a personalized mobile web application for posting geo related data to your blog. Just set a service email address in the form below and get a link to mobile web application for iPhone, Android or S60 platform. This web application lets you email new postings right from the map - just click on the draggable marker presents the location. And application automatically adds to email a link to the location. So your posts will have a direct link to some map. It is probably the easiest way for sharing locations, write about some check-ins, lets your readers to see the place you are writing about etc.

Also you can create with this mashup your own emergency communication tool. You can predefine not only email address for sending your location but a phone number for SMS too. So you will be able to share your location via email/sms just in one click.

Mashup creates a personal link for your geo-sharing application as well as QR code for loading this link right into your mobile.

For gmail users mashup supports Google Buzz posting too.

Big mobile map

Mobile mashup Big map has been updated. Mashup implements a new way for sharing location info to mobile users. This web application offers a full screen map with some marker pointing to the current position. Initially marker will be placed automatically but you can of course drag it to the new position. And as soon as you click on it, you will be able to send a link to the map via email and SMS. No registration, no passwords etc. Just send (share) a map. And do it via the standard messaging. Also gmail.com users can Buzz own locations right from the map.



Also you can bookmark locations in your mobile browser. Just hit a link within the info window. And bookmark the opened page.

Link to mobile web application is:

http://mbigmap.linkstore.ru (it is mobile site).



You can copy this link right to your mobile from QR code on the left. Also you can use this short URL http://bit.ly/7zu3iY.

It works on iPhone, Android and S60 phones.

P.S. and static maps for mobile users could be created with the following mashups: Mobile maps and QR map

How to buzz

How to post Google buzz by email. From here.

Buzz your geo data

Google Buzz on the map. Mark your geo points right from the map.

MWC 2010 Barselona

Live in Twitter:

Google buzz bookmarklets

Our bookmarklets suite has been updated. In particularly, Google Buzz support has been included.

Chat engine

Chat engine – servlet that implements a base (central hub) for web chats. JSON based API lets you create rooms, users, create and request public and private messages. We choose JSON as a basic API, so your web chat could be implemented on mobile web too.
A full source code example for the basic web chat is included. See it here.

JEE scheduler

Quartz scheduler on practice. Servlet for starting Quartz Scheduled Jobs

Google Buzz API

How to deal with Google Buzz from programmers point of view - Google Buzz API.

Google Buzz button

Let us test a button for Buzz:

Buzz it

actually - it is Google Reader button :-)

Geo mail

Geo-signature in email. Web-application for iPhone, lets you share your location via email: http://www.servletsuite.com/geomail
(it is a mobile site). Yet another way to share your location without going to some social network. Just send your data directly.

You can download application right to your phone with the QR-code above. Or use the following short URL http://bit.ly/dr5H1m

P.S. Also check out our Geo post mashup here.

Google Store view

An interesting idea from Google - Store View. Google Store Views will allow people to essentially walk into the store, off of Google Street Views. So for example you are looking at this store, and then you can click on the door to enter it, all on Google Maps. Then when you enter the store, you can wall through it.

P.S. As per Street View let us point your attention to our mashup Tweet Street View. You can see Street View and either an appropriate map or a list of Twitter messages nearby. Here is a description.

How to create a mobile site

A nice collection of online tools that will help you to create or convert websites into mobile format.

We can add two more links here:

Mobile pages - lets you create data services for your mobile and
QR code maker - create mobile site for any content just with copy/paste.

Mavenize your applications

Step by step guide: "How to mavenize a typical web application build". From here.

It is by the way what we need to do with our servlets suite.

OpenID in Java

How to: OpenID for Java web applications.
Actually, many things in Java are still does not look nice ...

Developers life

The current state for some of our projects:

Web sockets

Web chat based on HTML5 web sockets

Share and bookmark locations from your mobile

Mobile mashup Big map has been updated. Mashup implements a new way for sharing location info to mobile users. This web application offers a full screen map with some marker pointing to the current position. Initially marker will be placed automatically but you can of course drag it to the new position. And as soon as you click on it, you will be able to send a link to the map via email and SMS. No registration, no passwords etc. Just send (share) a map. And do it via the standard messaging.



Also you can bookmark locations in your mobile browser. Just hit a link within the info window. And bookmark the opened page.

Link to mobile web application is:

http://mbigmap.linkstore.ru (it is mobile site).



You can copy this link right to your mobile from QR code on the left. Also you can use this short URL http://bit.ly/7zu3iY.

It works on iPhone, Android and S60 phones.

P.S. and static maps for mobile users could be created with the following mashups: Mobile maps and QR map

Geo talk

Our mashup Geo Talk has been updated. It lets you create forums (discussions) linked to the particular place on the map.

Just mark a place, type a question (suggestion, information etc.) – in other words create an initiation for the discussion and get unique link for the map with embedded forum. After that you can share this link with your partners/colleges, print in your blog / twitter etc. – it depends on your own decision only – who you want to see among readers. And after that you can just follow to the discussion.

No registration required. Technically it is Google Maps + cloud forums from Disqus.

You can discuss some geo points, POI’s (points of interests – shops, bars etc.) or, for example, create a private forum devoted so some meeting in the selected place.

Just for example – forum for Golden Apple bar in Moscow

Count words on your web page

Text stats on Coldtags suite: Text stats taglib.
This component lets you count symbols (words) in texts. Actually we’ve used it in mobile web development for example.

Mobile development

Mobile development tutorials: iPhone, JME, Android

Download as PDF

Custom taglib lets you create links for PDF content. E.g. download current page as PDF, conver any external link to PDF etc. - PDF link

CSS buttons

Useful framework for CSS buttons

1 000 000

Over 1 000 000 visitors have been served by servletsuite

JSOS ver. 6.65

Java servlets office suite - the largest collection of Java servlets and filters reaches the version 6.65. See details here

Models for location update

"The model that is quickly emerging as the de-facto model for location updates is the so called check-in model.
Contrary to the always-on, automatically updating friend tracking model used by services like Google Latitude and Loopt, that has been prophesized and expected to take off for years, the check-in model used by services such as Gowalla, Foursquare and MyTown lets a user manually and deliberately 'check in' to an exact/discrete location and actively update friends and others about it." – from here. Actually it is a really very interesting review.

Btw, one of the early check-in services was our mashup Geo SMS. Lets you check in via plain old SMS. See also its description here.

Coldtags suite ver. 3.85

Coldbeans has released a version 3.85 of Coldtags suite. One of the largest collections of custom JSP tags over the Net contains 385+ taglibs for common programming tasks faced by Java (and/or Coldfusion) web developers. See more here

File tree in JavaScript

FileTree component from our suite lets you obtain and process server side file info in JavaScript. It is a Java servlet lets you obtain file tree info in JSON (or JSONP). See examples here.

MapReduce and DBMS

At the end of the day: "We recently conducted a benchmark study using a popular open-source MR implementation and two parallel DBMSs. The results show that the DBMSs are substantially faster than the MR system once the data is loaded, but that loading the data takes considerably longer in the database systems." From here

Directory of mashups

Our directory of mashups has been updated.

Geo Talk

"Geo Talk lets you create a forum centred on any location in the world. The site is a mashup of Google Maps and Disqus which allows a user to create a forum simply by placing a marker on a location in Google Maps." - Google Maps Mania blog about our mashup Geo Talk

Twit vs. Twit

Hot or not, $MSFT vs. $GOOG, euro vs. USD, Chelsea vs. MU etc. - all this in our mashup Twit versus Twit.

In the latest version you can directly pass search terms to URL. Parameters are t1 and t2. E.g. $MSFT vs. $GOOG:

http://tvt.linkstore.ru?t1=$MSFT&t2=$GOOG

Twitter lists explorer

A new mashup Twitter lists explorer lets you extract top links and buzz words from lists. A quick way to get idea what is going on in any list. Here are examples for some popular sources:

@Scobleizer/tech-startups
@TechCrunch/android
@Scobleizer/geolocation

This mashup continues our line of data extracting tools for Twitter. See also Twitter links, Retweets and Twitter buzz.

Web sites testing

Free online tools for web site speed testing.

Bookmark locations on the mobile

Mobile mashup Big map has been updated. Mashup implements a new way for sharing location info to mobile users. This web application offers a full screen map with some marker pointing to the current position. Initially marker will be placed automatically but you can of course drag it to the new position. And as soon as you click on it, you will be able to send a link to the map via email and SMS. No registration, no passwords etc. Just send (share) a map. And do it via the standard messaging.



Also you can bookmark locations in your mobile browser. Just hit a link within the info window. And bookmark the opened page.

Link to mobile web application is:

http://mbigmap.linkstore.ru (it is mobile site).



You can copy this link right to your mobile from QR code on the left. Also you can use this short URL http://bit.ly/7zu3iY.

It works on iPhone, Android and S60 phones.

P.S. and static maps for mobile users could be created with the following mashups: Mobile maps and QR map

Make use of forums on the maps

"There are a number of tools that let you create shareable customized maps but very few of them allow users to carry out discussions around them. GeoTalk is a neat tool that lets you create map forums within a few seconds" - Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips from makeuseof.com about Geo Talk mashup.

Sorted options

A new version of Select taglib lets you automatically sort options. And List properties component does the same for the resources.

String conversion

Maintenance update in the Coldtags service components: UTF8 taglib, String conversion, Environment entry.

Master select

Taglib Ajax select has been updated. This component lets you present a list of options (select box) and asynchronously fill the another list box upon selecting some options. The typical case: master - slave list boxes. As soon as some master option is selected the slave list should be updated.

How they did it

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. From here.

Web trends

The 2010 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gets into full swing today and already we're seeing a big trend emerging: web applications being ported to consumer electronics, from the technology inside cars to Web-enabled TVs. From here.

It is actually what we did with our web friendly water meters.

LRU cache

A simple and useful cache for JSP (and/or Coldfusion) applications - LRU taglib. Cache supports LRU (Least Recently Used) filling scheme. So the old records will be automatically replaced with the newest on case of overloading.

More about geo-search

Our mashup Geo search in Google Maps Mania blog

Mobile maps

Mashup Mobile maps has been updated. Lets you prepare maps (as static images) for mobile devices.

Just set the marker in the place you are interested in, choose scale and map type as well as the size and click on the marker. You will get a link to the static image. Now you can just send this link to mobile user by email or SMS for example.

P.S. and you can prepare а mobile web page with this image, copy URL to mobile phone, send any link by SMS etc. with services QR code and Mobile pages. And QR map mashup lets you simply transfer a static map to your own phone.

Java by examples

A nice collection of Java source code examples

OAuth WRAP

OAuth WRAP (Web Resource Authorization Protocol) - a simplified version of OAuth. OAuth WRAP is not much different than OAuth except that a client only has to pass the Access Token in the HTTP Authorization header, so it completely eliminates the need for signatures. All server-to-server WRAP calls happen via SSL.
I think it is a future of OAuth. The current spec is not very usable, especially for the mobile services. With WRAP there is no need for the special libraries.

Geo discussions

Forums (discussions) connected to the map. A new mashup Geo Talk lets you create forums (discussions) linked to the particular place on the map.

Just mark a place, type a question (suggestion, information etc.) – in other words create an initiation for the discussion and get unique link for the map with embedded forum. After that you can share this link with your partners/colleges, print in your blog / twitter etc. – it depends on your own decision only – who you want to see among readers. And after that you can just follow to the discussion.

No registration required. Technically, it is Google Maps + cloud forums from Disqus.

You can discuss some geo points, POI’s (points of interests – shops, bars etc.) or, for example, create a private forum devoted so some meeting in the selected place.

Just for example – forum for Golden Apple bar in Moscow

JavaScript logging

JavaScript logging package – JS Log. Includes JavaScript library and server side component (servlet). Lets you asynchronously log data from JavaScript to server side and show (display) them independently from your web application. Helps you debug or simply monitor JavaScript code.

For your JavaScript application this logging is actually lust one call:

  jsLog.Info(your_variable, title_for_logging)

This call lets you save the value (for objects – all the properties will be saved) and comment (title, caption). And servlet defines a simple HTML interface for showing the saved values. Also servlet saves data in the log file.

Log servlet - who are your visitors

Collect your visitor's info with this statistical component - Log servlet. You can deploy it on mobile sites too.

P.S. And WebLog component lets you see collected log files.

Geo search

Mashup Geo search has been updated. Local news search, illustrated by the local photo - just click anywhere on the map.

Mashup supports locale parameter (language for the search). Just set a parameter hl in URL. For example:

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

Big map - small news

Our mashup Big map has been updated. Now you can see also local news, people, photo - just click on the marker.

To eat or not to eat

A New Year celebration added a lot to our delicious mashup Food on Twitter

Directory of mashups

Our mashups directory has been updated.

See you later

Happy New Year to all our readers! See you in 2010.

P.S. here is a New Year newspaper

iPhone web

Web frameworks for iPhone.

P.S. by the way, check out from your iPhone Mobile big map or create your own location sharing web application.

Atom feed for databases

Google Feed Server - Open Source project, lets you build Atom feed for databases. Technically it is Java application for Jetty or Tomcat.

P.S. here is a very interesting list of Open Source projects from Google.

Big map

Mashup Big map has been updated. Full screen google maps you can share via email, twitter or facebook.

Annotated links

Our mashup Annotated links has been updated. Lets you pack any link (group of links) and your own text comment (in post-it style) into one short URL. The final pack could be shared via email and twitter. So you can threat it as yet another way for link sharing in Twitter for example – your comment could be much more than 140 chars.

You can annotate links right on the site, via bookmarklet or via HTTP API.

Mobile network lookup

Personalization tool for your mobile web application. Custom tag MobileLookup lets you obtain info about user's home network (e.g. country, operator). Powered by API from Ericsson Labs.

From web to mobile

Let us present one tool lets you copy data right from the web pages to your mobile. It is about transferring web content to the phone. E.g. you are going to copy address info, scheduling, driving directions, prices in the shop etc. published on some page to your mobile phone. How to do that?

In general the idea is very simple. As soon as some text for saving is selected we can create on the fly a mobile page with this text. And that mobile page could be transferred right to the phone via QR code. So right on our phone we will get a mobile web page with the text selected from the web. Now we can bookmark that mobile page in our mobile browser and use it any time we need that info

Let us show it on the practice. We will use QR code maker mashup for creating a mobile page:

1. Just select any text fragment on this page

2. Click on the link below:

Copy to mobile

3. Your selected text will be passed to QR code maker mashup and just in one click you will be able to create a mobile page as well as an appropriate QR code.

4. And for the future usage you can save the link above in the bookmarks (actually, this link is a bookmarklet). So this web to mobile service will be available for any opened web page.

You can get more useful bookmarklets here

Buy and sell on Twitter

Mashup Buy-Sell supports geo search. So you can see related tweets for specified area only. Just use to parameters in the original URL:

lat – latitude
lng – longitude

For example, buying and selling in:

London
Palo-Alto