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Live Blog: Live From The Reveal Of Microsoft's Next-Generation Xbox: It’s Xbox day! Almost exactly 8 years after the announcement of the Xbox 360, Microsoft is back with another one. We’re live on the ground

Hoping To Ride The Crowdfunding Wave, Celery Lets Sellers Accept Pre-Orders, Charge When Produc(...): Airbrite, a Y Combinator-backed e-commerce startup, is debuting its first product today called Celery (its name a play on the world “sell”). Celery is designed to

With $15M From Omidyar And 35M+ Users, Change.org Wants To Prove Socially-Minded Business Can A(...): Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling

Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless (...): Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers

Brow.si Is An Add-On And Platform That Wants To Put The Engagement Fight Back Into The Mobile Web: Today Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a host of

TeamSnap Online Sports Management Platform Acquires Weplay For An Undisclosed Amount: TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents

Swipely Raises $12M To Plug Marketing Tools Into Retail Payment Systems: Payment marketing startup Swipely is announcing that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding.Although founder and CEO Angus Davis (who founded TellMe,

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Vine: 12 Ways to Make Your Videos Stand Out: Youve had some fun with Vine, but now you want to get serious. Here are 12 tips to turn you into a Vine pro.With Vine, you

How Microsoft Can Take Over the Living Room: As all eyes look toward Microsofts announcement of the next generation Xbox and its bid to take on the PlayStation 4 in the gaming space, the

Devastating Photos of the Oklahoma Tornado Aftermath: A massive mile-wide tornado struck the town of Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying homes, schools, businesses and vehicles, among other things.Reports say that

Why Social Media Is the Front Line of Disaster Response: Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6

How Marissa Mayer Will Use Tumblr: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who announced on Monday that the company acquired popular social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, said she will use the site

Brilliant Rainbow Appears After Oklahoma Tornado: A category 4 tornado swept through Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday, overflowing social media accounts with images and videos of the overwhelming destructionBut University of

How to Watch the New Xbox Announcement: Microsoft is set to reveal the newest iteration of its Xbox gaming console on Tuesday. With expectations running high for the event, Microsoft has made the

Fred Wilson: Yahoo Will Put Tumblr on Same Level as Facebook, Twitter: One of Tumblrs earliest investors, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, says the Yahoo deal will lead to an influx of advertising on the platform and bring it

Xbox Announcement, Pre and Post Show Will Air on Spike TV: The Xbox: A New Generation Revealed event — where Microsoft will show off an upgraded Xbox console, games and other gems, will be aired live May

How to Help Victims of the Oklahoma Tornados: One of the most devastating tornados in U.S. history tore through Oklahoma City Monday, wreaking considerable damage to the suburb of Moore.The Oklahoma City medical examiners

Yahoo's Flickr Overhaul and Other News You Need to Know: Welcome to this mornings edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital world.Today,

Apple Paid No Taxes on $74 Billion in Income, Senate Panel Says: Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to testify before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday to refute charges the company paid no taxes on tens of billions of

Watch Obama Deliver Statement on Deadly Oklahoma Tornadoes: President Barack Obama is set to make a statement at 10 a.m. ET on the deadly tornadoes that struck Moore, Okla., Monday. Early reports Tuesday indicate

Woman Finds Missing Dog in Oklahoma Tornado Rubble: Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., found her dog alive under the rubble during an interview with CBS News.Before

'Always On' Could Change Your Gaming Habits Forever: It’s all but set in stone that Microsoft’s sleek, new next-gen iteration of the Xbox — whether it’s called the “Xbox 720” or simply “Xbox” —

Ultimate Ears Boom: The Speaker Jambox Wants to Be: Forget Jambox. Its officially been replaced, at least in my mind, by the Ultimate Ears Boom: A portable wireless speaker that sounds almost as good as

MoviePass Removes Wait List for Unlimited Theater Tickets: Going to the movies is an expensive pastime, especially if youre a frequent visitorMoviePass, a service that launched late last year, is trying to ease the

YouTube: The Newest Dog Toy: Did you hear that YouTube has hit the impressive milestone of one billion visitors a month? What the video-sharing site didnt reveal, however, is how many

Google to Retire Checkout in November 2013: Google will retire its payment processing service, Google Checkout, on November 20, 2013, as part of a transition to its multi-platform payment system — Google WalletCheckout

'Wired' Completely Overhauls Print Magazine: Wired is debuting a new look for its June issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The magazine has been completely made over by Scott Dadich, who before

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New Opera For Android Makes Switch From Presto To WebKit: Browser maker Opera just released a new version for Android with a slew of new features, an upgraded design and better performance. And, for the first time for Opera, it is not running on its own

Dell Kills Its Public Cloud, Continues To Flail In Post-PC Era: Dell is a computer company desperately in search of a new market as the desktop and laptop PCs dwindles. But the Austin-based company is finding that that an elusive target.Public Cloud? Thats So 2011Yesterday the company

Congress Wants To Take A Tax Bite Out Of Apple: Tim Cook is going to have an interesting day today. The CEO of Apple will be testifying before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which would love to know how Apple has managed to avoid paying

One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy: Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com, which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com, a cloud-based backup company.At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources - lack of funds, lack

Silicon Valley's Perverse Disincentives To Make Money: $1.1 billion. Thats how much your company is worth if its long on users and short on paying customers. Just ask Tumblr. Or Instagram. Each yanked down billion-dollar acquisitions despite making virtually no revenue. Is this a

Google Admits Defeat In Its 7 Year Battle With Amazon And PayPal: Google just announced that is it is shutting down Google Checkout, a Web-based payments system it launched to great expectations seven years ago.It will continue to offer Google Wallet and handle transactions for apps, games, music,

Congress Whacks Apple With The Tax Avoider Stick: An 18-month congressional investigation turned up evidence that Apple is a major-league tax avoider, the New York Times reports — one that allegedly sheltered billions of dollars from taxation by moving the money through a web of

Flickr Gets A Makeover — It's Been Supersized And Instagrammed: It wasn’t that long ago that Yahoo stood accused of letting Flickr decay beyond repair. Today, under the guidance of new CEO Marissa Mayer, the company has given the oft maligned image-sharing community a major facelift. Yahoo’s announcement promises a Flickr

Who Hates The Yahoo-Tumblr Deal? Tumblrers, That's Who: The Tumblr acquisition may give Yahoo the young, hip audience it’s always wanted — assuming it can keep them. Because Tumblr users aren’t happy, and they’re letting it all out. “Yahoo is buying Tumblr guys THIS IS

Chinese Army Cyberunit Apparently Attacking U.S. Targets Again: Getting called out by the Obama administration wasnt enough of a deterrent for Unit 61398, the cyberattack unit of the Peoples Liberation Army of China, because apparently theyre at it again, working to pilfer information from

GrubHub, Seamless Merger Brings Bigger Online Food Delivery: If you like using online tools to hunt and gather your food, take note: Seamless and GrubHub, two of the better-known players in the mobile food-delivery business, announced today that they will be merging their services.GrubHub,

Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid: In the Gold Rush to accumulate and put to use Big Data, we may actually be making it harder to actually glean insights from that data. Yet the prospect of data solving all of our problems

6 First-Hand Tips On How Startups Can Cope With Success: Startups are fast-paced, sometimes hectic places to work. In the early days, everyone wears multiple hats and is expected to lend a hand where needed, leading to close bonds between team members.But when a startup stars

Yahoo, Tumblr Match Official: Now What?: Yahoo has officially announced the all-cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr, picking up the six-year-old company for a cool $1.1 billion.The move, which was telegraphed by the major tech sources over the weekend, comes as no

Here Comes Jolla, Yet Another Deviant Linux Smartphone: Meet Jolla, the smartphone that almost never came to be.When Nokia decided to jump off its burning platform a few years ago and go with Windows Phone, there were no people more disappointed with the decision

How Amazon's Rising Headwaters Could Threaten Google: Guest author Derek Brown is a technology executive and analyst who blogs at One Blind Squirrel.Jeff Jordan, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz with the Midas touch, recently opined that Amazon’s e-commerce capabilities and successes represent a

Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. Amazon vs. Skydrive: Which One Is Fastest?: As cloud computing services become ever more popular, you might begin to wonder how much you can really trust them to perform when you need them? I decided to find out - by testing the top

Can Enterprise Tech Avoid The Fate Of The Automobile Industry?: “Only the paranoid survive” – Former Intel CEO Andy GroveThings seem so good in the enterprise technology universe right now it is a little scary. The IT transition to cloud/mobile/social has entrepreneurs and investors salivating, with

Buying Tumblr Will Leave Yahoo With The Same Old Identity Crisis: Yahoo is expected to announce the acquisition of blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Monday, with both companies boards having agreed to the deal, according to reports in AllThingsD, which first broke the news of sale

Please Don't 'Like' This Post (And I Really Mean It This Time): Editors Note: This is the last installment of a 3-part series covering Len Kendall’s abstinence from the “Like” button for a month.If you havent been following along, in April I decided to commit myself to a

GigaOM

Brrr: The chilly conditions that quantum computers need to run: Quantum computers, which have recently been bought by Google and Lockheed Martin, arent just sophisticated computers, they need to operate at near absolute zero temperatures to deliver their quantum effects, and thats a tricky problem.

Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps: The platform could give publishers a new tool in their quest to monetize online content. Not only does it let mobile websites issue push notifications, but it also introduces new real estate for ads.

Powermat marries PowerKiss, vows to use same wireless charging standard: By the wireless power invested in me, I now pronounce you a couple. Two wireless charging companies combine and agree on a single power standard. Thats great but theres still much work to be done in this industry.

The future of propaganda: A Q&A with Sean Gourley about big data and the “war of ideas”: During the Iraq war, the U.S. military used open-source data, from news reports to Facebook photos, to help detect patterns in the violence. But thats just the beginning. In future conflicts, big data will be a key part of the

Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA: The six finalists of the Publishing Hackathon held over the weekend in New York focus on discovering books in new ways -- whether its by browsing book jackets or getting recommendations based on your web browser history.

Why one startup thinks laying a few bets could help companies convince employees to slim down: A new startup is using financial incentives and penalties to help employers encourage their employees to lose weight and lower their risk for chronic disease.

Knewton teams up with Macmillan to bring adaptive learning beyond K-12 and higher ed: Knewton, a New York-based adaptive learning startup, has partnered with education publisher Macmillan.

TNW

Handling 5M actions, EasilyDo brings its smart assistant app to Android with a widget and event list: Smart assistant service EasilyDo today released an Android version of its app, making it accessible to more

Polar extends its voting service to the Web, allowing users to find polls across devices: Polling startup Polar has launched topic pages that are accessible from the browser. The launch of this feature now

Twitter uses first version of its Innovator’s Patent Agreement to protect ‘user interface m(...): Twitter launched the first version of its Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA) today and applied

Following acquisition by Jive, Producteev’s task management service drops its price and goes free: Producteev, a social task management service, is opening itself up to anyone who wants to use the service — for

Swipely raises $12m to roll-out its mobile payments platform across the US: Swipely, a point-of-sale payments platform that gives businesses the ability to accept

Last.fm joins forces with MUZU.TV to bring 90,000+ music videos to its Internet radio service: Last.fm has teamed up with MUZU.TV today to bring over 90,000 music videos to the Web version of its

Amazon Cloud Drive finally lands in Canada, offering 5GB of storage for free or 20GB for $10 a year: Amazon.ca has announced the launch of its Cloud Drive service in Canada, letting local Web users upload and store their digital files on Amazon’s giant hard-drive in the sky, and... Keep reading →

37signals

LINK: Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio: Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done RadioI talked about software design and seeing through the customer’s eyes for 30 minutes on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio. In my favorite part we thoroughly debunked personas and talked about how situations, not attributes drive behavior. Hosts Bob and

Don’t have the right gear? Make it.: I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the

Don't have the right gear? Make it.: I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the

LINK: The 37signals Report Card: The 37signals Report CardWe’ve long believed in the value of transparency at 37signals. It’s why we write about how we work and why we provide real-time information about our customer happiness and uptime. We like being held to a high

VIDEO: “If you wanna meet with me… come…: “If you wanna meet with me… come to the garden… with your shovel… so we can plant some shit.” -Ron Finley

Wanted: 25 special customers.: We’re working on a entirely new product, and I’m looking to meet some potential customers. We can meet in person, over the phone, or via Skype, etc.The tool is for the small business owner who runs a company of between

LINK: The importance of quick and dirty: The importance of quick and dirtyQuick and dirty is a skill. Use it or lose it. My latest article for Inc. Magazine.

Current status: We have a lot of data to parse through at 37signals. Our internal stats application, Dash, does the majority of heavy data lifting for us, including reports, application health, CI builds, and much more. Our Campfire bot named Tally happily

When empathy becomes insulting: Most corporate customer service departments seem to have been reduced to call scripts of apologies with no power whatsoever to actually address the problems they encounter. That’s the conclusion I’m left with after dealing with three business bureaucracies this year:

QUOTE: By showing the shark less, the movie was…: By showing the shark less, the movie was even scarier, and as Steven Spielberg said in the documentary The Universal Story, “By the shark not working, it allowed me to be much more experimental and find a way to make

PHOTO: Recent versions of Google Chrome on OS X…: Recent versions of Google Chrome on OS X mangle native input buttons. I don’t know precisely when it started but no amount of CSS brute-force seems to correct the text alignment. Have you found

PHOTO: There’s a flash flood warning for all…: There’s a flash flood warning for all of Chicago today. Unfortunately there’s water in my basement (like other Chicago home owners)...The flood fixing company U.S. Waterproofing has a cool

LINK: Auditioning your bike bell: Auditioning your bike bellWhen you’re buying a bike bell online, you don’t know what it’s going to sound like. Is it a hearty “RING RING RING”? Or a dainty ”...tiiiiiiing…”? It’s an important consideration!I love that

You play like you practice: Back in high school my track coach would often get on me about my sloppy block practice. He’d say “You aren’t setting up in the blocks properly. You’re rushing it, just going through the motions.” I’d say “Why does it

The only camera you need is an iPhone?: My friend Nick Quaranto is in the market for a new camera. A few days ago we discussed the pros and cons of various cameras (DSLR, mirrorless, iPhone, etc) in our Campfire chatroom. He was overwhelmed by all the options.

Embracing slow time: When you work in a traditional office and have a question, instant gratification is hard to resist. It’s so easy. Just stumble over to a co-worker’s desk, make sure they stop whatever it was they were doing, blather on until

Basecamp Delivered is Headed to Atlanta: Getting support online is great, but wouldn’t it be nice if you had an expert right beside you? A few of us will be in Atlanta and would love to meet you and your team!We’ll be at Roam in Alpharetta

QUOTE: You know, one of the things that really hurt…: You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just

LINK: Shipping a real product: Shipping a real productI’m really in awe of this. There’s no “pledge $10 or more” and get a prize. There’s no stretch goals. It’s real, the entire production process is documented openly, and you can get the final product today

Million Dollar Art: I have always struggled with the dark art of pricing artwork. Weird magic is involved. I have seen an interested buyer lose interest when I quoted a price that was too low. Oops, I mean… All of a sudden the

O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 21 May 2013: Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active

Four short links: 20 May 2013: Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan

Software and the physical world: In this episode of the Radar podcast series Jon Bruner and I are joined by Mike Loukides as we muse more on software and the physical world. No coffee shop clatter in the background this time around as we were

Three organizations pressing for change in society’s approach to computing: Taking advantage of a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the privilege of visiting three non-profit organizations who are leaders in the application of computers to changing society. First, I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Computing

Four short links: 16 May 2013: Australian Filter Scope Creep — The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for

Four short links: 15 May 2013: Facial Recognition in Google Glass (Mashable) — this makes Glass umpty more attractive to me. It was created in a hackathon for doctors to use with patients, but I need it wired into my eyeballs.How to Price Your Hardware Project

Four short links: 14 May 2013: Behind the Banner — visualization of what happens in the 150ms when the cabal of data vultures decide which ad to show you. They pass around your data as enthusiastically as a pipe at a Grateful Dead concert, and you’ve

Big data, cool kids: My data’s bigger than yours!The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer

Four short links: 13 May 2013: Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly more technical, so when he

Four short links: 10 May 2013: The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2) Projects by more prominent creators are more generative.

Yet another Kickstarter: Otherlabs’ Home Milling Machine: If you have a good memory, you know that I’ve written about 3D printers. Technically, I grew up with the laser printer; my first computer industry job (part-time while getting an English PhD) was with Imagen, a startup that built

Where will software and hardware meet?: I’m a sucker for a good plant tour, and I had a really good one last week when Jim Stogdill and I visited K. Venkatesh Prasad at Ford Motor in Dearborn, Mich. I gave a seminar and we talked at

Four short links: 9 May 2013: On Google’s Ingress Game (ReadWrite Web) — By rolling out Ingress to developers at I/O, Google hopes to show how mobile, location, multi-player and augmented reality functions can be integrated into developer application offerings. In that way, Ingress becomes a

Four short links: 8 May 2013: How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little

Steering the ship that is data science: Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we’d had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed and realized we could treat software development as a prototype case.It’s

Four Short Links: 7 May 2013: Raspberry Pi Wireless Attack Toolkit — A collection of pre-configured or automatically-configured tools that automate and ease the process of creating robust Man-in-the-middle attacks. The toolkit allows your to easily select between several attack modes and is specifically designed to

Another Serving of Data Skepticism: I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement pushed me to write another

Four short links: 30 April 2013: China = 41% of World’s Internet Attack Traffic (Bloomberg) — numbers are from Akamai’s research. Verizon Communications said in a separate report that China accounted for 96 percent of all global espionage cases it investigated. One interpretation is that China

White House Science Fair praises future scientists and makers: There are few ways to better judge a nation’s character than to look at how its children are educated. What values do their parents, teachers and mentors demonstrate? What accomplishments are celebrated? In a world where championship sports teams are

Google Glass and the Future: I just read a Forbes article about Glass, talking about the split between those who are “sure that it is the future of technology, and others who think society will push back against the technology.”I don’t see this as a

Micro Persuasion

The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...: The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...: No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...: The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...: No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...: The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

Museum of Modern Betas

Reclaim.fm: Reclaim.fmTake back control of everything you create, curate and share on the internet.(↬ wirres) | | |

WIP Videos: Wip VideosA new way to share and review work-in-progress videos(↬ pandodaily) | | |

Unicode Character Table: Unicode Character Table❤ ☀ ★ ☂ ☻ ♞ ☯ ☭ ☢ € → ☎ ❄ ♫ ✂ ▶ ✇ ♎ ⇧ ☮ ♻ ⌘ ⌛ ☘ ✈ ☊ ♔ ♕ ♖ ☦ ✝ ❖ ➎ ♠ ♣

kloudless: kloudlessKloudless offers a simple, secure way to move attachments between your email inbox and other cloud storage services.(↬ techcrunch) | @kloudless | |

ShotClip: ShotClipCreate and share a cool video(↬ wwwhatsnew) | | |

BitTorrent Sync: BitTorrent Sync(in BitTorrent Labs)Automatically sync files via secure, distributed technology.(↬ gigaom) | | |

CrowdMed: CrowdMedCrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online.(↬ netzwertig) |

ProgrammableWeb

95 Sharing APIs: Box.net, Dropbox and Ipernity: Our API directory now includes 95 sharing APIs. The newest is the Screenhero API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Zillow API. We list 79 Box.net mashups. Below youll find some more

Today in APIs: Weemo Funding for US, Metwit’s API for Push Weather Notifications, and 7 New APIs: French Video Startup Weemo raises $3 million to expand to US. Metwit builds API for push weather notifications. Plus: Twitter extends API v1 life to June 11, new GEO APIs for Android,

Hoppit API: Choosing Food Based On Mood: What makes a trip to a restaurant a great experience is not just the fact that they serve delicious food and good wine, but it has a lot to do with the atmosphere and overall

Stremor Releases Liquid Helium APIs Allowing Advanced Language Heuristics Technology to be Inte(...): Stremor, a language heuristics technology startup, has announced the availability of Liquid Helium APIs to third-party developers. Liquid Helium is a proprietary language heuristics engine that analyzes and interprets written content so that it can

38 New APIs: Sunlight Foundation, WeatherSource and Hoppit: This week we had 38 new APIs added to our API directory including a weather data service, national digital library, personalized restaurant recommendations and photos, U.S. political contributions database and remote home heating control service. In

API Spotlight: Popyoular, BIPS, and They Said So APIs: Of the many APIs we published this week, ten were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll shine a

20 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Billboard and FeedBurner: This past week 6 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 20 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Baidu, dlvr.it, Google Closure

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