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Rendezvous with Foursquare API development

Jun 10th

Posted by Varun Bihani in Social Networking

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Foursquare is a location based web application that allows its members to check in at the location they are currently at, through their mobile devices like iPhone, Blackberry etc. This red hot startup has been the talk of the town lately and is becoming the next big thing after Facebook & Twitter. And now that foursquare released their API for developers, more & more application development companies have started creating third party applications on foursquare platform. You can check the list of existing and upcoming apps at Foursquare Apps store.

Our team’s innate ability to keep learning new technologies has pushed us into development with yet another application interface. One needs to be smart enough to learn fast and start developing immediately on whichever platform they have been asked to work with. And this is the reason  why our  developers stand out from other software development companies. We need 2 days at the minimal to start building anything from Zero.

And this is how we learned working with Foursquare API. Like any other ordinary day, we were working on a iPhone application for one of the customer (name not disclosed at the request of the customer). It’s a kind of big application which makes a lot of use geolocation services and geographical data to utilize user’s current position over several modules. We have been working on the app for over 3 months now. One fine day, it occurred to one of our developers that we should suggest our client to use FourSquare API for this app which would make perfect sense for this geo location application. We quickly brainstormed and put together a proposal for the client. No doubt client was impressed and immediately gave us go ahead. Cost was an issue because we had to spend time in learning FourSquare API and then implement it. But we took that cost on us because we were learning something new in the process.

And in just 2 weeks, we were able to integrate several functionalities of FourSquare app like check ins, pull user’s friendlist, nearby venue search etc into this our initial iPhone app.. The client was thrilled, and we built our first app using FourSquare. (will share this app as soon as it is approved by Apple Gods)

Now, we have got several more projects (web & mobile) that involve combination of FourSquare API, Facebook connect and Twitter API. So feel free to contact our 3rd party application development team to help you with your next big thing!
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CabCorner – share the ride, share the fare

May 7th

Posted by Varun Bihani in Blogs

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Share the ride, split the fare and save the environment – with this motto, CabCorner will become the most interactive online cab sharing platform where you can afford travelling in a cab for the cost that you pay for a public transportation. The website is set to launch on May 31, 2010 followed by an iPhone application which will make it available on the move as well.

This will be yet another proud moment for our expert web development team at Galaxy Weblinks who has worked round the clock in last 10 weeks to pull this through. CabCorner will surely be one of the best custom web application that we have built in last 10 years. We are so very thankful to the founders of this great startup, Jonathan McKinney and Jesse Sommer, to give us an opportunity to partner up with them in this venture.

CabCorner aims to cut travel cost for cab riders by helping them find other riders who are also heading to the same direction. At the same time Cabcorner will also help the cab industry grow as much more passengers will join and travel more distances. A simple 3 step process will allow riders to find their companion. You start with entering your departure and destination address and CabCorner will show you all the other rides that are departing from it’s vicinity. Not only that, it also shows you the exact fare that each rider ride has to pay. If you don’t find any other ride, you can post your own and wait till someone else finds you. You will also be able to share your ride on Twitter and Facebook so that your local friends can also join your ride . Integration with Google maps makes the applicaiton more interactive because now user can see the best route that their cab will take.

While our programmers did an excellent job in converting this idea into reality on Internet, our iPhone application developers left no stone unturned in doing a terrific job with the mobile version of this platform for iPhone users who will be able to download it from the Apple store for no fees.

We will be pleased to hear your comments & feedback about this cab sharing platform so don’t hesitate to leave a message or send us an email.

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Entering the Facebook Galaxy

Jan 29th

Posted by Arjun Sarode in News

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Continuing with the theme of our discussion on Social Networks, I am happy to inform you that we have ventured in the pastures of Facebook Application Development.

By looking at the title of this post, one would probably wonder  if its logical to compare a social network with a Galaxy, no pun intended. I think the analogy is quite logical – particularly with respect to Facebook – considering how much one can do in and with Facebook. What started as merely a web hang-out of a few intellectual ivy-league grads has now reached mammoth heights of expansion and popularity. Now, I am not going to dive deep in this black hole of Facebookism; let us get to the point.

A question that one web visionary may often think is how can facebook be used to monetize their business?

Its no secret that facebook has revolutionized the social networking scenario in the web world. Their press release claims that as of January 2009 facebook has:

  • More than 150 million active users
  • The fastest growing demographic of those 30 years and older
  • an average user having 100 friends on the site
  • More than 3 million users becoming fans of Pages each day
  • More than 800 million photos being uploaded to the site each month
  • More than 5 million videos being uploaded each month
  • More than 20 million pieces of content being shared each month
  • More than 2 million events being created each month
  • More than 20 million active user groups existing on the site
  • More than 70% of users from outside the United States
  • More than 52,000 applications currently available on its platform
  • 140 new applications added per day, on an average.
  • More than 95% members using at least one application built on Facebook Platform.
Image Courtesy - Wikipedia

Image Courtesy - Wikimedia

Lets answer the four key questions about facebook:

1. What is Facebook?
In their own words,
“Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.”
It is one the most rapidly growing portals – providing an effective and efficient platform to both people and companies to create and expand their social connections as well as increase their brand awareness as well as optimize their business potential. Facebook Members can create their public profiles, add photos and content as well as make social connections. Likewise, businesses looking to be promoted on facebook can create Facebook Pages. A facebook page is similar to a profile – except that its a profile to showcase your product or business. People can become fans of your pages. Naturally, the larger fan base you enjoy, the more popular your business gets.
2. What is a Facebook Application?
A facebook application is a development platform providing an interactive framework with core facebook features. The facebook applications may fall into any of the following categories: Alerts, Business, Chat, Events, Mobile, Money, Music, Photo, Politics, Sports, Travel and so on. Developers may create facebook applications using the facebook developer network and facebook markup language (FBML). Once the application is listed in facebook’s application directory, it becomes accesible to the 150 million plus users of facebook!
3. How can Facebook help your business?
Naturally, with such an extravagent reach over the internet audience across the world, facebook can boost your business’s awareness among its community, and if properly explored, it can also increase your revenue many folds. A Facebook presence will strengthen your CRM channels and provide a platform for getting feedback and launching products for your business.
4. How can you be up there?
As I wrote earlier, we have started development of facebook applications in our labs. We have a dedicated team of Facebook application experts. We are currently taking orders for development of customized facebook Pages, Applications, Contact Management Systems, Polls, Advertising and Facebook Connect (the integration of facebook login process with your website). Our rich experience in web development coupled with an experienced team of facebook experts makes Galaxy Web Links ltd a heady cocktail for facebook application development. So, drop in a few lines to get a quote now.

More articles relating to social networks will follow.

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