eSpace has had NeverBlock enabled on its own Ruby applications for quite some time now and with a great degree of success. But NeverBlock has so much more to offer to the development community; eSpace is now providing a service in which you can get NeverBlock enabled in your very own application.
Luxembourg is rarely heard of in the news, but just last week it made itself worthy of the headlines. The quaint, yet gorgeous, country sandwiched between France, Germany and Belgium, was the chosen spot by the European Commission to host a networking event as part of the FP7 proposal call 5.
As previously posted, eSpace has participated in the annual Investing in Technology Forum that will come to close today. Over three hectic days of networking, showcasing, discussing and anlayzing, the result is an achievement; eSpace has been chosen as one of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation's 10 Startups Ready for Investment.
While working on a project, I needed to to have a feature like facebook’s “Post a link”. The user enters a URL, clicks on preview, and he gets a preview of how that page will be posted on his profile. Facebook does a few tricks:
- It fetches the URL’s title and description (a small paragraph about that page’s content).
- It provides the user with a list of images from that page so that he pick one of them.
- It also provides the user with the ability to edit the title and description if he doesn’t like what Facebook suggested.
A user then posts that URL. That’s when things start to get even more interesting
- if the link was for a video from a service like youtube or vimeo, it’ll show the youtube or vimeo player (embedded object).
- if it’s a flickr photo page, it’ll show the image.
- if it’s not any of the websites that are handled specially, the title, description and image are shown.
I needed to have the same behavior.
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