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Testing Twitters Location API

Dec 14

Posted by fmapap in Twitter, Web Development | No Comments

While Twitter has released it’s location API it has not fully integrated it into it’s site just yet. So as a developer if you are annotating tweets from your app with locations it may not be easy to tell if its working. The simple solution is to look at the RSS feed, for example: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/thesuggestr_bot.rss

In the resulting XML if you see (with different values of course) <georss:point>32.898393216 -97.044557447</georss:point> – then you have successfully posted a location.

Remember that the user must opt-in to having the location of his/her tweets shared.

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Major theSUGGESTR.com Update

Dec 1

Posted by fmapap in theSUGGESTR | No Comments

We’ve just announced a new version of theSUGGESTR.com. If you found your way to this site then you’ll probably want to try out our new release of theSUGGESTR.com.

You can learn more about our new release by clicking here.

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BBTrackr Replaced by BB on Fire

Sep 19

Posted by fmapap in Uncategorized | No Comments

For a variety of reasons we’ve discontinued updates to BBTrackr and have put out a new BB updater for FireEagle called BB on Fire. It’s be managed by our theSUGGESTR site as it will soon be the foundation for our custom BB app.

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Blackberry Networking Helper Class

Sep 16

Posted by fmapap in Blackberry, Java | No Comments

I came across this “life-saver” helper class, it helps auto detect the appropriate connection type to use when making connections using the blackberry networking classes. I’ve spent a ton of time debugging issues in applications and this class really has helped. I didn’t write it, but I want to point other BB developers towards it.

http://www.versatilemonkey.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/24/networking-helper-class/

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ETF Data Update

Sep 16

Posted by fmapap in ETF | No Comments

Sorry, we hadn’t updated the ETF data for ETF Finder tool in a while. We just updated it today and now have it set to update on a recurring basis.

For those who haven’t tried it this simple tool allows you to find ETF based on a stock symbol. This allows you to find ETFs with major holdings in a given stock.

Give it a shot.

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Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web

Jan 22

Posted by fmapap in Web 3.0 | No Comments

I’m in the process of doing a lot of research on Web 3.0 and at the same time doing some research on different marketing tools and techniques.Â With both in mind I created a Ning site on the topic of web3.0.Â I’ll be working on it sporadically and using it to document what I learn and experiment with as I dive into the Semantic Web.Â If you happen to arrived here and are interested in the Semantic Web – please join me.

If I create any useful tools or code I’ll be sure to post it here.

Microformats Ning Semantic Web Web 3.0

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Tags: Microformats, Ning, Semantic Web, Web 3.0

theSUGGESTR.com blog

Jan 16

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We are separating out our posts related to our website theSUGGESTR.com.Â The new blog we’ll be hosted on theSUGGESTR.com domain and will focus on updates and annoucnments pertaining to theSUGGESTR.com.Â This blog will continue to look at a variety of technology and internet related topics and will host any spin-off applications (like BBTrackr).

TheSUGGESTR.com BlogÂ

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Screencast.com vs. YouTube

Jan 13

Posted by fmapap in theSUGGESTR | No Comments

After the past few days putting together our first screencast for theSUGGESTR.com (you can find it here).Â I was really disappointed when I uploaded it to YouTube and found my video was quite blurry.Â After doing some research and re-rendering the video with a ton of different settings I gave in a tried a different hosting service, Screencast.com.Â Without any extra work my video showed up in perfect clarity.

For a screencast clarity and crispness is extremely important and Screencast.com made that obtainable with a lot less fuss than YouTube.

screencast theSUGGESTR

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