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Weather Forecast on Geo Domains Well, we are now in a position to provide weather forecast to every city, town, village or anyplace in the USA. Very soon in Canada, UK and every city/town in the world. Take a look at our sample page here at www.new-york-city.wx.tel (fcst updates every 30 mins) We will be filling up the wx.tel with dynamic Weather Forecasts for 2999 US cities/towns soon. They all will be updated every 30 mins, displayed on .tel page when refreshed. This is only an example of how dynamic content can be displayed on a tel page. And is NOT limited to just weather forecasts. We can display live auctions, stock market updates etc. We can even make you play Bingo on .tel What else do you need?? The .tel is much more this.... ++++ We appreciate your feedback on this. Thanks. |
this is really nicely done telCP. but the click is opening new windows with every click. this makes no sense |
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Great work TELcp. Looks good on iPhone too. Dynamic content is vital if we are to stand out from traditional directories and compete with apps. |
More Dynamic Content @Telcp: nice graphics. Here some other examples of dynamic content. http://october-14-scrambled-words.playtowin.tel/ Word game http://october-13-poker.playtowin.tel/ Poker game Was a work in progress only limited by time and lack of proper linking, ie opening in same browser window. Working on other projects but will get back to this one when time permits and Telnic updates the proxy. You need to refresh your page to see updated graphic. Mark |
@telcp - very professional feel to it - well done! we've been playing around with dynamic content via images for a while too. including geo aware searching, etc. |
Many Thanks to all feedback here and via twitter. Well, what we have provided is only a 3 day forecast. The extended forecast for 7 days, Weather Alert Updates etc can be provided if more .TIA are made available. This is the reason we have been asking to increase the number image ads per page. Hopefully, people with active geo domains will soon have something to talk about. Cheers! |
How about a Weather Carousel ! How about a Weather Carousel ! Telnic will only need to host the DNS pointers to multiple images (images will be hosted elsewhere). No additional strain on servers with regular call to update content. A carousel will be a better idea. With that we can stick to what Aled said in reply to our request for additional .TIA images. Whatever, you can Telnic, please consider these requests for the benefit of all parties concerned. Thank you in advance. ++++ |
you can effectively do that now in two ways: 1. animated gif of course constructed on the fly with dynamic content 2. load in multiple records via the soap api and rely on the randomness to show the different images |
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Not practical due to many reasons, but mainly: a) Resource management (on both Telnic's and service providers). b) Considering the throttling on .tel (by Telnic) c) Instant updates are not effective due to network delays (Multiple networks are involved when updating records). ++++[/size] |
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Yes, tel has to be dynamic to face any competition. But we don't see any competition for tel's original unique concept, now or in the future. Major obstacle right now is lack of enough promotion and the new found anti tel propaganda within and outside the tel. But its just a passing cloud. ++++[/size] |
@TELCP Don't see why you have a throttling issue. There are different ways to do dynamic content. 1. PHP generation of image, done at your server, no throttling issues with Telnic, single update to domain 2. SOAP call upon PHP image load to rebuild domain, valid for next visitor only If you rely on #2, then do your own throttling by only refreshing content once per hour or day as needed. Mark |
@Mark My reply was to indicate throttling comes in to force when update to the records are involved. There is nothing, nothing whatsoever, on what we have done and do now with .TIA images. As it is right now only need to update the DNS once and close your eyes. :cool: |
item 'c)' on post #10 Its a waste of time when trying to update the DNS and then display dynamic content from a remote server. What we have done is much faster within the available options of the present tel framework. That is what I wanted to point out. ++++ BTW, throttling is not from our side. But in force from Telnc's side. Timing (the duration between updates as far as the weather fcsts are concerned, can be adjusted every 3/6/12 etc). But every 30 mins is good to monitor during bad weather period. For that we need to display alerts. Space is the problem. |
Personally I dont think .Tel is suited to weather feeds, as all you are doing is mirroring data already available elsewhere via better mobile apps and sites. It looks nice but what is the value? Unique dynamic content should be provided for helping market the TLD, geoawareness applications etc. Not sure what the benefit is for a weather feed. Mark |
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If we put the information without link to some where else will be fine, I will be watching this close due that I am the owner of the eltiempo and clima both means weather in Spanish, when I want to know about the weather I see only the temperature and if is going to rain, nothing else, good job. Regards http://ideal.tel[/size] |
1) Why do people need a .tel domain when there is already YP with a very well organized directory structure for contact information in one place? 2) Why do people need a .tel domain when there are free websites available on the net? We have our own answers and reasons. And we know you have yours too. ++++ |
Tel is suited to searchable content esp at the subdomain level. For a weather tel to be effective, without marketing, you'd need a good set of content with each subdomain. However, you could of course provide geo-aware weather at the root level, but then you'd be doing it without content, hence marketing or viral awareness. Dynamic content is always valuable to the right markets. Mark |
@TELCP/Mark: I have "Weather.tel" in Chinese. Telcp let me know how you and I can connect and complete the Site so each Large Chinese city has a weather forecast. Mark, I do agree on some points- don't you think some awareness will still come from people using weather.tel in China? |
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Sure, that's my point. Unless you get awareness for your .tel, no one will be using it so why duplicate content? If TEL is popular then finding it via search won't matter, it will be useful. Mark[/size] |
