So you decided to work with geo data within your rails application? To do so, some additional gems are required and over here you will find a simple example using rails with an underlying postgres database to store your geo data.
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Neo4j is a graph database, a fully transactional database that stores data structured as graphs. A graph is a flexible data structure that allows for a more agile and rapid style of development.
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TheFind, a leading shopping search engine and provider of the best in-store price comparison app, today reported that for the holiday weekend (through noon on Sunday EST) mobile shopping trips increased by 4.6x over the year prior. TheFind, which sees roughly 1 million shopping visits per day, also reported that mobile traffic accounted for roughly 25 percent of all shopping visits over the holiday weekend as compared to only 15 percent of all shopping visits for the Thanksgiving weekend in 2009.
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Likify is a simple service that allows registered users to create QR-codes. When the QR-code is scanned the user gets pointed to a mobile landingspage, which contains the official Facebook Like button.
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We’re all familiar with regular metrics updates from the mobile technology world – especially mobile advertising. Less common are reports on the mobile barcode industry. But American barcoding firm Scanbuy has released its inaugural Mobile Barcode Trend Report, showing a dramatic increase in the number of scans on its platform this year.
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