Just read a fantastic hypothetical article over at techcrunch. It’s a futuristic look at how various mobile web technologies could potentially integrate with each other to provide a seamless user experience on the mobile web via smartphone enabled devices.
I particularly like the notion of Geofences. These are effectively imaginary borders that are created with Geolocation data points. For example, you could be in one particular area such as the city that has a Geofence around it. Inside this Geofence, certain rules apply to your mobile profile. I could have programmed my mobile to provide me directions to the closest Chinese restaurants when I am in the city because that is what I like to eat when I am there. However as soon as I leave the city Geofence, and enter a different Geofence, a different set of rules apply. I could have programmed my mobile information so when I leave the city and am driving down the highway, my mobile profile will be locating McDonalds restaurants that are in my immediate vicinity on the highway.
Anyhow, for the full article, you can view it here on techcrunch
Here’s a little tip – If you’re short on time and can’t be bothered checking all of your favourite websites one by one for the latest news and information, this method will help you view a list of articles in your iGoogle page all at once. By doing this, you can find new and useful information that you like quickly and easily. When you see an article link in iGoogle, you can click the link and it takes you to the full article straight away. This is extra handy if you have setup your iGoogle account to be your browser’s default homepage like me. Read more
There has been a bit of a turf war growing recently. It all came head to head with the release of the Google Nexus One. Apple saw this as a direct threat to the iPhone and their business model. Needless to say, ties between the two companies have soured rapidly as of late.
It was interesting to see just before the release of the Apple iPad, Steve Jobs came out and denounced the use of Adobe Flash and categorically denied that Apple would ever support it. People were wondering why? It’s hard to deny there is large support and demand for Flash Content. Steve Jobs claims that the world is moving towards HTML 5. I do agree that this is the case, however, people are not ready to entirely ditch Flash. It is still a valid platform and integral to the web. Read more
Let’s get to it. To start with, I’m an iStockphoto contributor. At the moment I contribute vector illustrations, but I’m looking to get into photography at some stage too.
Today, we’re going to find out how to:
- Find your iStock recent image RSS Feed
- Use Google Feedburner to embed the iStockphoto RSS feed into your website
- See how many people are clicking on your feed links
Please note, this method I am about to describe allows you to embed up to 10 images from your iStock recent uploads into your website. Why 10 you ask? Well that’s all that comes out of the iStock feed. Also, I am using Google Feedburner as it lets you get statistical information on click throughs etc plus it automatically updates your website with your most recent images. Feedburner will provide you with a fairly basic looking feed, but you can style it more if you know some CSS coding. If you don’t know CSS maybe find someone who does and they can style it for you.
Whilst this tutorial specifically refers to embedding an iStockphoto RSS feed into your website, you can also apply some of the methods listed here to embed any other RSS feed you may have into your website.
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