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GC20.ca Sites Back Online

The gc20.ca services, including Mobile GEDS, the mobile.gc20.ca portal and and the i.gc20.ca URL Shortener are back online. are back online.  Sorry for the disruption today.

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Mobile GEDS Usage Graphs (November 2009 – August 2010)

Mobile GEDS has been running for a while now, so I thought I’d take a look at its usage stats. The first query was just to see what language the site was being queried in. More interesting is the usage by device/browser.  For the sake of this graph, I grouped all the Blackberry models together, [...]

Mobile GEDS has a new home

The Mobile GEDS application now has a new home.  Point your favourite mobile device to: http://geds.gc20.ca/ Enjoy!

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Mobile GEDS Improved Search

Happy St. Patrick’s Day Everyone! As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a mobile-friendly version of the Government Electronic Directory Service (GEDS) as a little side project. This application parses the results of the Government of Canada’s online phone book into a format that is easier to use on mobile devices like [...]

My Thoughts on Foursquare

Introduction Last month, I decided to give the social media service Foursquare a trial run, using the Blackberry edition of their application.  My first introduction to Foursquare was via people I followed on Twitter announcing that: They had checked-in at a certain location – a feature which I didn’t think required to be pushed out [...]