We are migrating away from a more primitive chat client to Google Hangouts for Business -
The only trouble is - that there are no contacts in the hangouts list, by default - and while it is fairly straightforward to add someone from our domain, it would be a huge pain to tell everyone to manually add everyone else in the domain (especially since that would require a hell of a lot of clicking, etc)
Reviewing the Hangouts API - everything there seems to pertain only to a specific hangout - (and namely group video hangouts, at that)
So, the next best thing would perhaps be to go the route of using the Google+ API and using the API to add everyone to everyone else's circles -
But, there are two problems with that, which I am open to any suggestions on solving:
1). Not all the users have G+ accounts set up on their company/domain account
2). Future users would be left out of this, unless the script were run repeatedly - which, is honestly acceptable...
But, I'm hoping some one can tell me how to make it a default - where everyone has everyone else added to their hangouts contact list, automatically....
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
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I hope you can help me with a problem:
I want to create a web application that requests user data from a Google Home device. I then want to create an interface that summarizes all this data and shows convenient data analytics to the user. For example: How many times I switched a light on during a week, or what music I'm listening to, or which light are on or off at a certain moment.
The problem is that I have no idea where to begin, I've been searching through Google and stackoverflow without avail. I came across a site called home-assistant.io, but that seems to be a program that consists of different modules and has the Google assistant "on the side" instead of using the Google assistant to gather the data.
So I guess it boils down to is it possible to use the Google Home to gather usage statistics, or isn't that possible (yet)?
In short - it isn't.
Users can see what they've done using their Google account, including through the Assistant, using https://myactivity.google.com.
However, third-party developers have no access to on-device activity, no access to the content at myactivity.google.com, and no way to intercept or view what a user is doing using the Assistant. In short - no way to gather statistics outside of their own, specific, Action.
There are lots of reasons this isn't allowed, but probably the biggest is security and privacy. Google gets a lot of criticism for collecting this information, and would probably get even more if it was possible for those outside Google to get it as well. (Google also has a business reason for limiting outside access to this information, admittedly.)
I want to build simple web based app, where users, for example, could push the spacebar button, and then do something further, like answer a question, and while other users at the same time only sees that this question is not available any more for answer. When user submits answer, everyone see it.
All right, here is an example. I have seen TV shows, where four players have one button, if one or two of them know answer, they hit a button, and one lamp turns on and the first is allowed to answer, while other keeps their mouths shut. I want to build the same idea, but in the web.
But problem is that, I don't know where to start, what keywords I should search for help on google and so on. I see, that it might work on HTML5, maybe JavaScript and so on.
I have idea using Ajax, but request it every second to get latest actions made seems rubbish. Also I found one service called Pusher, but it has limited users in one time, which doesn't fit my needs.
I need just ideas. Thanks.
Before you read the rest, a disclaimer: I work for Realtime.co but I do believe I can help here so I'm not trying to "pitch a sale".
You can check out Realtime (www.realtime.co). It's basically a set of tools for developers to use real time technologies on their projects. It uses websockets but does fallback to whatever the user's browser supports (such as long polling, for example).
Behind Realtime you have a one-to-one/one-to-many/many-to-many messaging system that will transport your messages to and from your users.
There's also a plus which is the fact that the Realtime framework is actually cross-platform. This means that you can even have your web users communicate with iPhone users, Android, users, Windows Phone, desktop applications, server applications, etc..
You can learn about the JavaScript API here: http://docs.xrtml.org/getting_started/hello_message.html#javascript.
You only need to register at Realtime.co as a developer and start using the free license.
I really hope that helps.
Okey, I think I will go with node.js.
Writing all this previous post, made me think in right way :)
I have been playing around with the currency converter web service offered by http://webservicex.net as a way of learning how to interact with a web service from an iPhone application and I have managed to get the currency converter working perfectly.
I have since expanded my application to include other features to make it something a little 'different' from what is currently available on the App Store.
The question that I have is if I release an app on the App Store and that is ad-supported am I allowed to use this web service that someone has obviously put time and effort into making? Up until a month ago I did not even know what a web service was or how it existed so I am not sure if there is any etiquette (eg, give them a mention in the About page of your app) or if these things are generally out there and free to use?
I have tried contacting Webservice X via email but every time I get a bouceback because their mailbox is full, which has helped get me closer to an answer. Has anyone else used their services or know of the standard allowed use of someone elses web service in an ad-supported application?
Thanks guys!
Using their web-service is not going to get you rejected. That being said, relying on someone else's equipment (of which you have no control and are not paying for usage) is not a good idea for a production app. I would do some research into finding a service that you feel is going to be more reliable or can pay (a minimal amount) to use.
The other piece of advice I would give is to build the application so that it gets the data from your own web-service and let all the base data come from you. In other words, get your own web-site (from as little as $7 a month from GoDaddy or other services), and do the currency lookups there. Build your server-side processes to be easy to swap from one service to another and that way if for some reason you lose access to the currency converter service you have been using, it is a quick amount of work to switch to a different one without having to release a whole new version of the application (and wait 7+ days for the app review process).
In other words, your web-service you build supplies all the data for the iOS app and you get the currency data on your web-server.
That is how I would do it to make sure it is the most reliable and easiest to change without affecting the installed iOS app.
have developed some quite good basic Facebook App development experience, can hook apps up to databases, have different info installed and displayed on different tabs no probs. However, everything Ive been doing so far to date revolves around me manually going into my developer account and setting up each apps settings individually, one at a time. Am curious to figure out how people like tabsite have created an interface that captures users input data and displays on tabs (that part i understand) but also it registers new apps each time on the fly (this part am curious about how its done), allowing them to add individual app logos, tabnames etc without the user ever having to go anywhere near the developer set up. And how are tabsite getting data back from the developer such as app_id or app_secret??
Any insight much appreciated.
Regards Tony
As I recall there isn't a way to register an app using the API. They probably just use only one app, and then check the signed_request variable to get the Facebook Page ID, which they then link together with the data in the database.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/
You're allowed 2 tabs on a single page on their free account. But you can only add an app once. This implies they've either created a number of apps that are exactly the same(11 would be my guess as that's how many tabs their best plan offers) There used to be a way to do it using one of the old SDKS but as far as I was aware it was deprecated and is no longer available.
The fact that you say you can customise the tab image though, does imply that they're creating new apps, as far as I am aware you can only customise the image within the app settings in the developer app.
After a bit of investigation, this post may have more info
http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/6264080/create-a-facebook-application-programmatically
I'm trying to figure out a solution to manage our transaction emails (such as the welcome email, you've got a bid, etc...)
We would like to be able to allow marketing to manage the content of the emails, and create split tests to test content / subject lines / etc...
Ideally we could invent our own success metrics to report back to the email management system (such as user completed registration, accepted bid, etc...).
Right now we have our emails in templates using stringtemplate. The code replaces tokens with the correct content for that email.
Strongmail is a potential solution, but it is pricey - anybody have experience with alternatives?
I'm looking for the same kind of service, and https://www.sendwithus.com/ seems to do the job.
Have you taken a look at PostageApp?
Currently, it's a layer between your web app and your SMTP server which has additional features for your transactional emails.
With PostageApp, you are able to create two different templates and have them triggered alternately with different content and subject lines. However, the metrics that you would want to use for A/B testing aren't built into the system yet, so I'm not sure if it would be a good fit for you.
Full Disclosure: I work for The Working Group, the company that created PostageApp.
But if you do have questions about what we can help you with and what we can't, definitely let me know and I can answer plenty of questions for you!
Try http://www.cakemail.com/
It is a third party, you design your workflows and give them your contacts.
I work for a 6 million a year website company and we direct all our clients to them, so far so good, everyone is happy.
You have to contact them to have a price but you can get a free account for testing