{"id":400,"date":"2008-11-04T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/~bmy1\/itpblog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-11-04T17:21:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:21:24","slug":"sms-live-a-concession-with-textmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/sms-live-a-concession-with-textmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"SMS live (a concession with TextMarks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for the SMS week in LiveWeb, we were exploring the usage of a web service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textmarks.com\">textmarks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First, Alberto, Sanjay, and I were interested in building a simple application that would allow a user to submit a location (cross-streets) and get both the nearest train station and immediate schedule. This would help commuters to avoid missing their train, and it would make late night and solo travel a bit safer. We ran into a block and consulted both Shawn, Dennis (teaching Designing Around Place), and Robert who made something similar (<a href=\"http:\/\/muniriders.net\/\">muniriders.net<\/a>) and provided a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtfs-data-exchange.com\/\">GTFS data exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I thought I would just allow a user to type a word and have an image displayed on the a web page of that word, which could be sorta cool in some specific contexts, but it wasn&#8217;t working and I wasn&#8217;t too passionate about it.<\/p>\n<p>So finally, I played with the provided <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/~sve204\/liveweb\/week8.html\">code for week 8<\/a>, and have a small application that allows a user to change the color of a web-page through SMS. <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/~bmy1\/liveweb\/text\/text.php\">See it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great example of this service blown into full utility is <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewvote.com\/\">thenewvote.com<\/a>. Nice work guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for the SMS week in LiveWeb, we were exploring the usage of a web service called textmarks.com. First, Alberto, Sanjay, and I were interested in building a simple application that would allow a user to submit a location (cross-streets) and get both the nearest train station and immediate schedule. This would help commuters to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}