WebIt Congress

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Webit Congress, Istanbul 2012



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   WebIt Congress

Context-aware data discovery

Our presentation for ICIN-2012. It is devoted to SpotEx and related products

Discussions in Twitter

You are welcome to check out an updated version for our Twicus - discussions in Twitter mashup.

Discussion here is a flow of messages (statuses) with some hash tag. Mashup lets users add a special status for the own timeline during the first visit. It is like check-in. This check-in record contains hash tag for the discussion. So, user can switch to search right with one click right from your new post. Additionally, user's timeline will keep check-in record (read - description to hashtag), so it is easy to return back to that discussion. For subsequent visits mashup simply redirects user to Twitter search page for the given hash tag.

You can set your own parameters for the discussion. Basic URL proceeds the following parameters:

tag - tag for discussion
title - explanation for your discussion
checkin - check-in message to be published in user's timeline
via - Optional. Twitter's account to follow for the check-in message

For example: http://twicus.linkstore.ru?tag=mytag

Such way you can add links to your site/blog: 'Discuss in Twitter'

How it could be used? For example, second screen application for social TV.

Video Sharing

A collection of Video sharing (streaming video) apps for mobile.

We are collecting references for our Mobile web pairing project.

Mobile & retail

An interesting presentation from Deloitte:

Screen Sharing

Mersive - lets you share smartphones screens. We do that much simpler via мobile web pairing.

Geo Discussions

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

Any discussion could be copied right to your mobile phone as HTML5 mobile web application via QR-codes.

Just for example – forum for Golden Apple bar in Moscow

Initially mashup ( http://geotalk.linkstore.ru ) is trying to detect your location (as per W3C spec). If you know that forums should be created in some particular area just set additional parameters for the above-mentioned URL:

lat - a latitude
lng – a longitude
zml – an initial zoom level

E.g. create forums in London

P.S. check out also similar mashups: City forums and Mobile forum

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.

Discussions in Twitter

You are welcome to check out our new mashup Twicus - discussions in Twitter

Discussion here is a flow of messages (statuses) with some hash tag. Mashup lets users add a special status for the own timeline during the first visit. It is like check-in. This check-in record contains hash tag for the discussion. So, user can switch to search right with one click right from your new post. Additionally, user's timeline will keep check-in record (read - description to hashtag), so it is easy to return back to that discussion. For subsequent visits mashup simply redirects user to Twitter search page for the given hash tag.

You can set your own parameters for the discussion. Basic URL proceeds the following parameters:

tag - tag for discussion
title - explanation for your discussion
checkin - check-in message to be published in user's timeline

For example: http://twicus.linkstore.ru?tag=mytag

Such way you can add links to your site/blog: 'Discuss in Twitter'

How it could be used? For example, second screen application for social TV. Follow to our announces.

A new approach for sharing location info

Our presentation from ruSmart-2012:

A new approach for sharing location info from Coldbeans Software

WATN in press

A new paper Where Are They Now – Safe Location Sharing devoted to our service WATN

Second screen applications

Connected TV. A good example of second screen application.

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)

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 Geo Message application and mobile web mashup Local tube

Local tube

You are welcome to checkout a new mobile web mashup - Local tube. Lets you see local videos from YouTube.


You can copy URL to your phone with QR-code above. Or use the following short URL: http://bit.ly/QOPROA

It is possible also to directly set locations. Here are the parameters for the basic URL:

lat - latitude for place
lng - longitude for place

For example: London

P.S. And here you can create own mobile web site from YouTube's video: Mobile video.

Predictive analysis for City data

An interesting article: Predictive data analytics is saving lives and taxpayer dollars in New York City

Bookmarks for locations. QR codes practice.

Our mashup Location bookmark has been updated. It is a practical use case for QR codes. Mashup lets you create two things:

1) QR code for mobile map associated with the given address
2) HTML for putting that QR code on your site

So with this tool you can place on your own site (blog etc.) – e.g. somewhere in Contacts or About page QR code for any given address (e.g. address of your company, office etc.). And any visitor of your site will be able simply to scan this code and load that map right into own phone. So they (visitors) do not need to write/print/remember your address/driving directions etc. Just load an appropriate mobile map right from your site. Loaded map could be simply bookmarked on the phone (loaded map is just URL).
And driving directions as well as many other interesting things will come automatically with the mobile map (we use Geo Messages here).

Of course, QR code created with this mashup could be placed anywhere. E.g. add it to some article in your blog, print and place it on the wall etc.

P.S. similar projects:

QR map - lets you create QR code right from the map. Also can create a link to mobile friendly map (iPhone, Android, Bada – any phone with HTML5 browser).
Mecard - lets you create QR code for loading address data (contact info) right from your site
QR-code FAQ - QR codes use cases and how-to.

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.

About the good scientific papers

The classic mistake that engineers make is to talk about features, not benefits. Engineers will talk about the technology and assume that people will know why it's important and believe that it works. But it doesn't work that way. ... It's not very difficult -- it's trivial compared to the technology stuff. But inventors need to have absolute clarity about what their message is: what's the benefit, what's the reason to believe, what's the dramatic difference.

Doug Hall, Inventor IEEE Spectrum, August 2006, p. 46

Trajectory-Aware Mobile Search

An interesting article about mobile search: "Most location-aware mobile applications only make use of the user’s current location, but there is an opportunity for them to infer the user’s future locations. We present Trajectory-Aware Search (TAS), a mobile local search application that predicts the user’s destination in real-time based on location data from the current trip and shows search results near the predicted location. TAS demonstrates the feasibility of destination prediction in an interactive mobile application. Our user study of TAS shows using predicted destinations to help select search results positively augments the local search experience" - from here

Outsourcing for logins

An interesting (but probably dangerous) idea - outsourced accounting system for web sites.

New UI

An interesting blog about new user interfaces

Local photos on your mobile phone

Mobile version for our Images search for Twitter mashup has been updated:

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

Lets you see the recently published photos nearby. So, you can see local photos as well as search them by the keywords. It is mobile web application that works on HTML5 browsers (Android, iPhone, Samsung etc.)

This latest version supports the following features:

1) you can pass geo-points as parameters for the above mentioned URL (parameters are lat - latitude and lng - longitude) and create a mobile link for photos. For example, live photos from London:

http://bit.ly/b58X2X

2) you can directly set search string. Parameter's name is q. For example:

http://localphoto.linkstore.ru?q=sport

btw, you can use here some name from Twitter, hashtag etc.



You can copy mashup right to your phone with the QR code above. Or use the following short URL http://bit.ly/cX2cCd

M2M Challenge

Challenge for M2M applications

Address info collector

JavaScript code lets you extract address info from web pages

We will add something similar to our Location bookmark

Math blog

An interesting blog devoted to math (e.g. machine learning)

Mobile video sites

Our mashup Mobile video has been updated. It is a tool for creating mobile video sites. Lets you collect on the single mobile web page all the video from Youtube you are interested in. Just copy/paste some URLs from YouTube and get mobile web page for using directly or as a part of your own mobile site/portal. Mashup presents also QR-code for loading that page directly into your mobile browser.

Here is an example: puppy channel



P.S. For other mobile development tools check put also mashups Mobile pages and QR code maker

Wi-Fi proximity as a Service - best paper award

The First International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies - SMART 2012, May 27 - June 1, 2012 - Stuttgart, Germany.

Our paper Wi-Fi proximity as a Service has been awarded.

Phones as sensors

Smartphone Sensing Group at Dartmouth

Social TV Apps

An interesting site: "Appmarket.tv is the Internet’s first portal dedicated to the convergence of players expected to meet in this convergence of media - the web developers, the broadcasters, the consumer electronic manufacturers, the Pay TV crowd, the content creators, Mobile community, VC's, startups, designers, creatives, agencies, and eventually, even consumers will find our site useful."

Best paper awards. Computer Science.

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (since 1996)

Food from Twitter

One of the most delicious from our mashups has been updated. Get an idea about your next breakfast, lunch or dinner right from Twitter. Mashup Food from Twitter shows you the live stream of food pictures just published in Twitter. See what other people are eating right now.

New version supports Instagram and own image hosting from Twitter. Speed for search has been optimized.

You can also pass the following parameters to the original URL:

lat - latitude for search
lng - longitude for search

and perform local search. For example:

Food in London
Food in Palo Alto

Data mining projects

An interesting list of projects in Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Computer Science.

Photo map

Our mashup Photo map has been updated. It lets you see real time photos from Twitter on Google map. Now it supports Instagram and image hosting from Twitter too. The speed has been improved.

You can directly describe an area for photos. Base URL accepts the following parameters:

lat - latitude
lng - longitude
zml - zoom level
mrk - (1/0) - show or not a marker at the center of map
lang - a language for map. E.g.: lang=de

For example: live photos from London

About context-aware browsing

Our new article Context-Aware Browsing for Hyper-Local News Data

This paper describes a new model for delivering hyper-local data to mobile subscribers. Our model uses any exiting or especially created Wi-Fi hot spot as presence sensor that can open access for some user-generated content.

Yousef Daradkeh, Dmitry Namiot, and Manfred Schneps-Schneppe. Context-Aware Browsing for Hyper-Local News Data, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), Vol 6, No 3 (2012) pp.13-17

Day in photos from Twitter

A picture is worth a thousand words. Our mashup Twitter's day in photos has been updated. At the first hand, the speed has been optimized.

It presents for you trends in Twitter, illustrated by the photos from Twitter (all stores for images, including Instagram and Twitter's own image hosting for example)

Optional parameters for the basic URL are:

lat - latitude for images search
lng - longitude for images search
q - query string
WOEID - geo index for searching trends

WOEID is so called Where on Earth ID. Here you can find WOEID for your own place. For example:

Day in San-Francisco
Day in London

By default mashup shows the global trends (WOEID=1).

Technically it is based on our images search for Twitter

Search images from Twitter

Our mashup Photos from Twitter has been updated. Lets you search photos from Twitter timeline. The newest version includes improved search algorithm (e.g. supports Instagram and new image hosting from Twitter) and fixed sharing functionality. Also the speed has been improved.

Also you can set also initial parameters for your search. For example the above-mentioned script lets you pass the following parameters:

lat - latitude for search area
lng - longitude for search area
q - query string

E.g.:

Photos from London

Cats

Soup

P.S. You can also see pictures right on the map with the following mashup: Photo-map

Phone as a sensor

Yet another article about using phones as sensors.

By the way, our own SpotEx project is about using sensors from phone exactly.

For Google Scholar

Yousef Daradkeh, Dmitry Namiot, and Manfred Sneps-Sneppe Spot Expert as Context-Aware Browsing, Journal of Wireless Networking and Communications p-ISSN: 2167-7328, e-ISSN: 2167-7336, 2012; vol.2, N.3 pp. 23-28 doi: 10.5923/j.jwnc.20120203.03

Real world analytics

Yet another system for real places analytics. Euclid system simply measures Wi-Fi pings emitted from smartphones and other devices.

P.S. the similar service see here.

Voice MT

An interesting service - VoiceBunny. It is a mechanical turk for voice-related tasks. E.g., you give them your text and get back audio file.

Spot Expert as Context-Aware Browsing

A new article has been published: Spot Expert as Context-Aware Browsing. Here is a PDF file

DSL for ML

Interesting approach: ScalOps - Domain Specific Language for Machine Learning

Ask friends: socialize your mobile search

Our mobile web mashup - Ask friends has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application presents a wrapper for Google 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 Google SERP. Who will help you the most - Google 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

Geo bookmarks

You are welcome to checkout a new mobile web-mashup - Geo bookmarks. It is HTML5 web application lets you create and use your own list of places right on the mobile phone. For example, save the place for your car parking and find the direction to it later, etc.

You can load application with this QR-code too:
 

Mashup does not require authorization, bookmarks (places) will be saved right on your phone (in your mobile browser, actually).

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 Geo Message application and mobile web mashup Geo bookmarks

Markov models for call-centers

B.V. Gnedenko anniversary

View more presentations from Coldbeans Software.

Mobile map

Our mashup Mobile maps has been updated. Full screen map for mobiles (iPhone, Android - any HTML5 browser) lets you share location info as a signature for the standard messages.

You can load it right to your mobile browser with this QR code too:



You can use this mashup as is or embed it into your own applications. It helps you show some information for mobile users. This mashup accepts the following optional parameters for the basic URL:

t - text for POI
lat - POI's latitude
lng - POI's longitude
lat0 - own location (latitude)
lng0 - own location (longitude)
email - default email address
phone - default phone for SMS
lang - language for the map

dt - timestamp (milliseconds)
d - duration (min). For example, if your POI presents some event

instead of (lat, lng) pair you can use another parameter

a - address for your POI

For example, UK Prime Minister

We are using this tool in many our mobile LBS applications.

P.S. it is HTML5 web application, so the same will work in your desktop browser too, except SMS sharing of course.

/via Geo Messages

Food from Twitter

One of the most delicious from our mashups has been updated. Get an idea about your next breakfast, lunch or dinner right from Twitter. Mashup Food from Twitter shows you the live stream of food pictures just published in Twitter. See what other people are eating right now.

New version supports Instagram and own image hosting from Twitter.

You can also pass the following parameters to the original URL:

lat - latitude for search
lng - longitude for search

and perform local search. For example:

Food in London
Food in Palo Alto

City Chat

Our mobile mashup City chat has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application lets you talk with other visitors for the same place (café, office etc.). Lets you add on-demand chat service for any particular place. No registration required. Check it out from your iPhone, Android, etc.

http://citychat.linkstore.ru

(it is a mobile site).

You can copy link right to your mobile browser with the QR-code above. Or use the following short URL: http://bit.ly/a7aOKv

You can include chat into your own mobile site. The basic URL accepts the following optional parameters:

lat - latitude for place
lng - longitude for place

For example: City chat, Palo Alto.

Techically it is a mobile web mashup that uses Foursquare and chat engine from Coldbeans.

As a similar "city" application see also City forums and geo-chat

Angelhack

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is AngelHack, SAN FRANCISCO • SEATTLE • BOSTON • NEW YORK 2012



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   AngelHack

Hyper-local chat and forum

Our mobile web application WiFi chat has been updated again. What kind of object (real or virtual) can we use for joining together mobile users? We are not talking here about members of social networks. We are looking a way for creating group chat. Here, for example, is a short list for several our applications:

City forum - discussions (forums) linked to places (POI - point of interest)
Geo forum - the similar to above (also mobile forums) but linked to location
Mobile forum - lets you add discussions to any physical object.
City chat - web chat linked to any POI (point of interest)
Geo chat - web chat linked to some location

And here is our new idea - Wi-Fi Chat. Forum and chat linked to some Wi-Fi network. Communication tools based on ideas of network proximity. It is a mobile application that lets you see available (visible) Wi-Fi networks and link (attach) discussions and chats to them. We are not talking about connecting to Wi-Fi networks. We are using any Wi-Fi network just as a sensor. If you can see it from your mobile, you are somewhere near. We can call it Wi-Fi proximity. That is an idea. All people seeing the same network are in the some proximity. So, they could have some common points for the discussions.

Just one interesting remark – Wi-Fi access point could be opened right on the mobile phone. And with WiFi chat application this phone will play a role of presence sensor uniting (combining together) local people for the communications.

Technically this application uses cloud forums from Disqus and web chat from Coldbeans.

You can load .apk right from Android Market:

com.wifichat

Also you can download .apk file right from our server: http://servletsuite.com/WiFiChat.apk. Here is an appropriate QR-code:



WiFi chat, actually, is a side project for our new development - SpotEx. This application uses ideas of proximity as a service and lets you attach (link) your own data to Wi-Fi access points. We will describe it separately.

About big data

And once again - Big data is not about BIG Data. Well said.

SoLoMo Manifesto

Just About Everything Marketers Need to Know About the Convergence of Social, Local, and Mobile (SoLoMo)

HTML5 framework and tools

Yet another collection of HTML5 frameworks

Custom JSP tags

Coldtags suite - the largest collection of JSP custom taglibs. Now includes 420+ custom JSP tags.

Places, reviews and custom check-ins for Facebook

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

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.

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 still can use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

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 - geocoded 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.

Places for Facebook

Our mashup Places for Facebook on Google Maps Mania blog.

But actually this article describes only a small part of features. E.g. custmozed checkins are missed. See here more details about Places from Facebook.

Just a script

Machine Learning as a script for PIG

Data science

Data science degrees

QR-code art

A list of great examples artworks for QR-codes

/via QR-code FAQ

Social Sensors

An interesting projects under FP7: Social sensors. Search and aggregation for user generated content.

Wi-Fi proximity as a service

Wi-Fi proiximity as a service

View more presentations from Coldbeans Software.

Our presentation from SMART-2012. Stuttgart, Germany. May 27, 2012 - June 1, 2012

For Google Scholar again

Yousef Daradkeh, Dmitry Namiot, Manfred Sneps-Sneppe Telecom Mashups: a Practical Example International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 2,Mar-Apr 2012, pp.710-714

Smartphones detection

Cool technology. Wi-Fi card in active mode can scan devices with Wi-Fi switched on.

Your own bot for Twitter

"...try Twitter 411, a service that lets you create your own custom Twitter bot. The Twitter 411 site contains a directory of public apps that users have already created to handle tasks ranging from checking out the day's weather in London, to getting a quick map to a friend's house, to doing some quick calculations via Twitter. Since all of these apps are available for public use, you can even use a little ingenuity to tie them together to do almost anything through Twitter." - PC World about out 411 for Twitter service.

Yellow pages for Facebook

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

Lets you search for places, show them on the map, see additional info in Google and Bing, copy locations to mobile, see friends activity, check-in anywhere as well as prepare mobile web pages for customized check-ins.

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

lat - latitude
lng - longitude
q - query for search

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 still can use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

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 - geocoded postings. Now you can write reviews for Places.

P.S. And here you can 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.

Mobile Geo Chat

Our mobile mashup Geo chat has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application lets you chat with people nearby. Anonymously, you do not need any special account. Just a text chat with people nearby (e.g., in the same café, in traffic jam etc.) Check out it from iPhone, Android, Samsung or Opera 10.1 mobile browser.

http://geochat.linkstore.ru

(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/gCbzm3.

You can use this chat in your own mobile web applications. The basic URL accepts the following optional parameters: lat - latitude for place
lng - longitude for place

for example: Palo Alto, University Avenue, Starbucks

There is the similar mobile mashup City chat - the dialogues there are connected to some place from Foursquare. Geo chat is almost the same but implemented for any geo place without the connection to some predefined place

Technically it is a web mashup that uses chat engine from Coldbeans.

As per similar "city-level" applications check out also City forums

P.S. as per hyper-local chat see also WiFi chat application

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 our new Geo Message application and LBS application City Guide

Geo Messages for Facebook

Geo Messages approach based on the peer to peer location sharing. We do not need authorization here and we do not need third party servers with location data. Location info could be shared as signature to the standard messages (email, SMS). This approach has got various implementations: Geo Mail, Geo SMS, Geo Twit, etc.

And here is a new implementation: Geo Messages for Facebook

It is a web mashup that lets you share location info via messages in Facebook. Mashup uses Send Dialog from Facebook API. E.g. invite your friends join you at café, event, etc.

Also you can use mashup in your own web applications. Base URL supports the following parameters:

lat - latitude for place
lng - longitude for place
place - Facebook ID for place

in other words you can directly set location info (latitude, longitude) or provide a place from Facebook (for places see, for example, Places for Facebook)

Additional parameters:

to - target address
picture - URL for picture added to your message
name - title for geo-link. By default it is: Location info
text - text for geo-link. By default it is: I am here
redirect - URL for site (web page) for redirection after sending. By default it is the same mashup

For Google scholar

Yousef Daradkeh, Dmitry Namiot, Manfred Sneps-Sneppe Telecom Mashups: a Practical Example International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 2,Mar-Apr 2012, pp.710-714

Geo-location in Twitter

Our mashup Twitter location has been updated again. 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 and customized check-ins for Facebook

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

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.

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

lat - latitude
lng - longitude
q - query for search

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 still can use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

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 - geocoded 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.

Coldbeans 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), see local photos from Twitter 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.

City Guide - 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) as well as the nearby photos. 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.

Where are you now?

Our mobile web mashup Where Are You Now has been updated.

The query 'Where are you now?' is the most commonly sent SMS message, texted over 600 billion times per year in the US. For servicing such kind of queries we suggest Geo Messages approach. It lets you easily share location on peer to peer basic in messages. This approach, actually, could be used in different applications. We are presenting here a new use case.

Our mobile web application Geo Mail lets you send email from mobile with your own coordinates. Application sends location info as a signature to email. It is mobile web, you do not need to download and install code, it is completely enough to know service’s URL (or keep it in the bookmarks, for example). Any your friend can send you his/her own location (and do it right peer to peer, without any third-party server keeping location data). But what if this URL is unknown for your friend, but you still need his location? Just a simple solution – let us send him a link to this application. In other word we will send him email with link to the geo-located reply. It solves also the privacy problem – it is up to the target party to decide share or not his location. It is what our mashup Where are you now does. All in all, mashup automates the asking and answering of "Where Are you now" question.

It is mobile HTML5 web application, lets you send request for geo-located reply. Short URL for locading:

http://bit.ly/cy6ndx

You can use also the following QR-code:



You can use mashup in your own mobile web applications/portals. Basic URL accepts the following optional parameters:

to - email address for sending
subject - subject for the letter (by default: Where are you?)
reply - predefined address for the reply

For example: Where are you

Check it out from your mobile HTML5 browser (iPhone, Android, Samsung Bada)

Old story

One of the earliest articles: Yousef Daradkeh, Dmitry Namiot and Manfred Sneps-Sneppe Telecom Mashups: a Practical Example

And we told you before

About the idea to share search query in your social network. Now Bing does the same

Local photos on your mobile

Mobile version for our Images search for Twitter mashup has been updated:

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

Lets you see the recently published photos nearby. So, you can see local photos as well as search them by the keywords. Mobile web application that works on HTML5 browsers (Android, iPhone, Samsung etc.)

This latest version supports the following features:

1) you can pass geo-points as parameters for the above mentioned URL (parameters are lat - latitude and lng - longitude) and create a mobile link for photos. For example, live photos from London:

http://bit.ly/b58X2X

2) you can directly set search string. Parameter's name is q. For example:

http://localphoto.linkstore.ru?q=sport

btw, you can use here some name from Twitter, hashtag etc.



You can copy mashup right to your phone with the QR code above. Or use the following short URL http://bit.ly/cX2cCd

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