http://upingme.com/wordpress Behind the curtain at Upingme Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:06:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [...] Still have the habit of searching through Classifieds section of the newspaper when you’re in need of a product/service? Well; it’s obsolete now, to say the least. The service has gone mobile and trust me; this could get really big. Now you can post/get classified ads through text messages right ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=20 The Frenzy extension to the API is now live. You can build applications around it and add Frenzy to your existing offerings by using this RESTful URI: http://www.upingme.com/api/frenzy/00444123456789 and the server will return the user's Frenzy code, their Frenzy balance and their currency like this: <upingme_package> <upingme_package mode="frenzy"> <frenzy_code>lmw94</frenzy_code> <frenzy_balance>0</frenzy_balance> <currency>£</currency> </upingme_package> http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=18 Whilst demoing Uät today, I described the service in a way that needs to be blogged. Uät is a location service, it is not a surveillance service. The Uät user has complete control over the voluntary disclosure of his location, unlike services that work by triangulation, where users are under surveillance ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=17 We have some new API features online that were rolled out today. You can now retrieve the location of any number with a RESTful call to our API interface; you point your client to it like this: http://www.upingme.com/api/location/00121234567891 where '00121234567891' is a user's number. The system returns your client an XML package ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=16 Our new service 'Uät' is now online; take it for a spin and let us know what you think. Uät lets you see the exact location of your friends both online and with a mobile phone, wherever they are in the world. When you set your location with a text, we ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=15 Service was down today for several hours; the cause was the air conditioning at our co-lo, which broke down resulting in all the servers in the farm overheating and shutting down. Everything is back up and running normally. We are busy working on a new Upingme service which will dovetail nicely with ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=14 Service was interrupted this afternoon; incoming messages were not reaching the system. We traced the problem and it is was not related to our software, but was an upstream network problem. Everything appears to be flowing normally at the time of this post, 5:07PM. http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=13 We have just rolled out QR-Codes on the reply boxes. QR-Codes are a useful way of initiating an SMS message, saving the user some thumb strokes. The obvious next step is to allow access to our Upingme QR-Code engine via the API; the images would be available for print and the ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=12 Upingme Grüps is now online and testing. Technically it is a 'private message reflector' which takes an incoming message and then distributes it to a members list. In its current incarnation, you can send a single message and reflect it to an unlimited number of recipients. This could be used for ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=10 Here is an interesting article about the widespread use of mobile phones and texting in the UK. Texting is huge in Europe, just how big it is is not well understood 'across the pond'; this article gives you just a glimpse of how important and deeply ingrained SMS really is ... http://upingme.com/wordpress/?p=9