Archive for the 'Hacks' Category

Improvements to eBay Google Mashup

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I just made some improvements to the eBay Google Mashup. When changing the country in the form it will reset categories and postal codes. This is done to prevent the eBay API from complaining about unvalid postal codes and categories.
I have also made hyperlinks for the cities. The links lead to local searches around […]

New York Times Sunday Book Review - Amazon Mash up

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I just finished a new mash up. It does not look very spectacular but it is pretty cool. I download the latest New York Times Sunday Book Review and lookup the Asin-codes on Amazon. I cache the result in order not to violate Amazon Api rules.

New York Times Sunday Book Review - Amazon Mash up

eBay MSN Virtual Earth app up and running

Monday, December 5th, 2005

My contribution to the “World best app” is online now at http://www.worldsbestapp.com/ViewApps.aspx. Choose, non-games. I am still undecided if it people will find the app useful. It is somewhat crippled compared to my other mashups as MSN does not allow for use of Ajax.

MSN Messenger app ready

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

I have completed my MSN Messenger app for the World’s Best App contest. It is a pretty weird app, it lets two people use my eBay MSN Virtual Earth mashup at the same time, synchronized.
I am not sure if people will find this useful. It should be online soon at the The Worlds best […]

Improved Ajax categories

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

I’ve just uploaded a new version of the Ajax eBay categories on all the different search pages: Google Maps, Virtual earth and HTML.
The new version will find all parent categories and display them when you click on a category in the category column.

eBay search without maps

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I added a regular eBay search on the site today. One unique thing is that it displays the location in a better way than eBay does, I do a reverse look up of the zip code. It is easy to switch back and forth between Google Maps Search and regular search. The regular search has […]

Bug fixed in Ip lookup

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Hostip.info changed their url for ip geo look ups which resulted in no data being returned my site. This bug has been fixed.
I have also been working some of the more advanced features with Google Analytics. I have setup Goals, people going from the eBay mashups to eBay. I can now see patterns of […]

Google Maps controls for MSN Virtual Earth

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

I could not resist to create pan and zoom controls for my MSN Virtal Earth Mashup. They are almost identical to the Google’s GSmallMapControl().

Google Maps Controls for MSN Virtual Earth