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Blast Mojo is Live ! Now with scaffolding!

Kyle — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:32:44 +0000

It seems I gained a lot of traffic a little while ago from a little post I made about Mojo. At that time, it seems the internets got confused and somehow a waterfall effect of misunderstandings revolving around the palm pre operating system arose. Gladly those were all cleared up.

Since then there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes by the core team trying to get Mojo open source. They came through a couple weeks ago and now Mojo is official out in the wild.

Being an advocate of open source, I used the opportunity to quickly build a scaffolding framework for Mojo called Mojo Tasks. I had talked about doing it for a while, and tested a few difference implementations before I finally settled on the current implementation which you can find on my Git Hub account.

All that said, I would like to welcome Mojo into the open source world and I am very excited to make more contributions to this amazing UI framework.

Real Estate 2.0

Kyle — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:31:08 +0000

So here is something I was reading on Tech Crunch this morning about real estate start ups on the web. Cyber Homes, a startup that I would loved to have been the founder of is a real estate mapping service that provides high level overviews and more specific statistics based information about real estate trends. Lets hope they release an API and blow MLS out of the water! From what the article says, they are using Microsoft’s Silver Light for most of their rich dashboard controls. My opinion of Silver Light sort of makes this an infrastructure that I don’t really agree with and thus sort of ruins the service for me but at very least the article is reporting that while real estate markets are on the down, the number of people researching online is very much still on the rise.

This is great news to sLajax developers because we are currently working on a product that will allow Toronto Real Estate Agents to automate the streaming of their MLS listings data directly from the TREB servers, thus enabling the client to directly update their website with their listing data by logging into TREB just as they would normally. It is still undecided as to the presentation layer that will be developed to but we have been very eager to present some sort of highly interactive mapping application similar to housing maps, as a starting point for users to then select their area and get more information on the site.

In any event, it’s super great to see that Tech Crunch is reporting a rise in online-viewer-ship because this means that great tools like Cyberhomes and the application that we are developing will bring lots of benefit to realtor’s who are looking for a way to stand out with the listings on their website.

Scene Map – alpha sneak preview

Kyle — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:07:12 +0000

scenemap.net is a new slajax project that combines the power of live maps with the data of facebook, to allow you to easily find directions to your favorite concert. Although it is only in alpha stages, it is promising to be quite a wonderfully useful mash up for scene kids around the world. Here is a little preview:

The service is planned to launch with support for end users and “fans” who are just looking for quick directions to an event, however the goal is to scale this application to support many different features. Some of these features include:

tour itinerary management for bands – bands will plot their tours and be able to interact in real time with each stop on the tour
street team management and groups – fans will be able to subscribe to their favorite touring events and interact with them. event coordinators will be able to effectively manage their street teams.
ticket purchasing – ticket sales for sponsored tours and demographic reports indicating high sale areas
media and content sharing – blogs, video, photos and tons of great stuff that can be uploaded in real time directly to the application from any medium (cellphone, blackberry) and associated to the event geographically
DIY tour suggestion solution – a solution that will suggest specific tour dates for a DIY artist based on the weight that the venue or promoter records hold for their given areas of promotion

The alpha release has been issued @ http://apps.facebook.com/scenemap/ with the core site and premium service offerings planned to launch next spring.