#edent

Using the WordPress mShots Screenshot API – new blog post from me. https://t.co/Ruus33AQSY

I don't understand the blockchain hype. A startup has certified my artwork & placed their verification on the bitcoin blockchain. Now art dealers & auctioneers can feel secure that I am the original artist. One small problem… I am not Leonardo da Vinci!https://t.co/9219OcPsVW pic.twitter.com/MsJQMctt0y

As I predicted in 2013 (https://t.co/lwNYsNmMzf) Wikipedia now accepts 3D models - https://t.co/ogD8ud8gzy

Embedding Mobile YouTube in Dabr via @edent

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Fan of Dabr, mobile web tinkerer and all round nice guy @edent, hosts is own version of Dabr on his own server... ...and, thanks to this Open Source awesomenessm he's able to play with the code without affecting the main user base.

Above are screens from his experiments with embedding YouTube thumbnails into his Dabr stream.

Not bad at all :)

If you're a budding Dabr coder, or you host your own version of Dabr on your servers, why not click through and find out exactly how @edent did it?

David is taking a look right now... ;)

  UPDATE: It's already in... Nice work

dabr.co.uk now has YouTube thumbnails thanks to @edent :) e.g. http://youtube.com/watch?v=XHtg479Ub7g

People have been very excited to see some new functionality in Dabr – the mobile Twitter client I develop for. But what is it and how does it work?

@@ and geotag

Reply to All

The @@ symbol allows you to reply to all the people mentioned within the tweet. It only shows up on tweets which mention other users – so you should only ever see it when it can be used.

Hitting @@ on the above tweet will pre-populate the text box with “@topgold @whatleydude @dabr”.

It should remove any duplicates and should also remove your username.

Geotagging

Twitter recently allowed the geotagging of tweets. This allows you to set the longitude and latitude of where you are when you wrote your message. Clicking on the green globe (it just looks like a dot at that size!) takes you to a mobile mapping service.

Google Maps Mobile

It only shows up on tweets which are geotagged – so you should only ever see it when it can be used.

How Does It Work?

You can see all the code in the SVN, but here’s a quick rundown.

Geotagging is very simple.  Statuses now have a <geo> field.  If this is populated, it will contain a longitude and latitude.

We can take those values and pass them to Google Maps Mobile (or your favourite mobile mapping service). if ($geo !== null) {    $latlong = $geo->coordinates;    $lat = $latlong[0];    $long = $latlong[1];    $actions[] = theme('action_icon', "http://maps.google.co.uk/m?q={$lat},{$long}", 'images/map.png', 'MAP'); }

Reply to all is a little more involved. Twitter provide an excellent set of Text Libraries. These provide officially sanctioned regular expressions to help your project find URLs, hashtags and usernames.

Using the Twitter Text Extractor class we can determine how many usernames are mentioned in a tweet. Any duplicates are removed – as is the user’s username.

Any questions – just ask!

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This update comes from one of @Dabr's more prolific coders, Sir Terence of Eden - aka @edent..

Terence runs his own version of Dabr using the open-source code and has been playing and updating now for some time. With permission, David went through the main service and applied the awesome changes you can see above...

What do you think? Do you - like @topgold - like these new features?

Makerhood - Brixton

OpenStreetMap - internationally

LBS is all about you

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Makerhood - Brixton

Kristina Glushkova

Makerhood is a project to promote local makers and create a website enabling people to buy things made in their neighbourhoods. We are currently working on a Drupal-based pilot in Brixton, funded by a grant from Unltd. We are taking an open approach to building the platform and working with the local community throughout, from the idea to implementation. The talk will go through the idea, the approach we have taken and the role of community engagement. It will reflect on the opportunities and trade-offs in balancing the community and trading aspects on an online marketplace that is grounded in physical local interactions. http://www.makerhood.com

OpenStreetMap - internationally

Harry Wood

OpenStreetMap.org is the wikipedia of maps, a project to create free and open maps of the world. This is is not a corporate endeavour. It's a somewhat disorganised rabble of thousands of volunteers collaborating to build something great and give it away to the world for free. The project started here in London and is still largely being served from cupboard in UCL. With a shoestring budget OpenStreetMap is turning the traditional geodata industry on its head, but open data is mainly about empowering a new wave of web developers and hackers. It's time to get behind OpenStreetMap and be proud of it. This talk will run through some of the open data motivations but with a map licensing slant. It will cover the comparative offerings of google maps and ordnance survey. You'll see how the editing software works, and how people like you can easily edit the map. We'll take a quick look at some technical details of map tile rendering stacks, the main OpenStreetMap API, and other services which developers can make use of in and around OpenStreetMap. http://openstreetmap.org

LBS is all about you (or where you are)

Steve Kennedy