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AP Takes A Stake In Bambuser, The Real-Time Mobile Video Service That Helps Eyewitnesses Tell T(...): Bambuser, the upstart mobile video service that has carved out a name for itself as a crucial tool for eyewitnesses to record and transmit footage

Zuckerberg Replies To His Facebook Commenters' Questions On Immigration: If its just about tech wanting to hire more people, not as impressive commented one of Mark Zuckerbergs 18 million Facebook followers.

Live From Facebook's ‘New Product' Mystery Announcement: Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox.A small

Rad, A Parisian Hipster Fashion Portal, Gets $3.3M Led By Index To Go International: Because fashion never goes out of style, fashion portals continue to bring in the money not just from consumers looking for the next big thing

LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking: LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to a DNS issue.

Rocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The “Amazon Of Southeast Asia”: Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the Amazon of Southeast Asia, announced today that it has landed

30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seastea(...): As has been written ad nauseam, weve seen a lot of activity in the wild and whacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to

Mashable

9 Neat Ways to Make Coffee on the Go: A decent cup of coffee is undoubtedly one of lifes simple pleasures. We have found nine nifty gadgets that will make sure you get your caffeine

10 Google Earth Tips for Power Users: Google Earth is a free program that lets you explore the globe (and a few other parts of the galaxy) via satellite imagery. Street maps, terrain,

Cultivate Your Creativity With These 4 Fair Use Libraries: Looking for creative content that is also free can be taxing. And when overused, Creative Commons becomes a bore of stock photos and MIDI jingles. Especially

Vine Videos Give Sneak Peek at New Features: One day before rival Facebook is rumored to announce a Vine competitor, employees of Twitters video-sharing service teased several of its new features. Co-founders Dom Hofmann

Watch Right Now: Andrew W.K. Playing Drums for 24 Hours Straight: Andrew W.K., the man known for his music but also for his crazy affinity for partying, is playing drums right now. Hes been doing it for

LinkedIn Recovering From Outage Due to Possible DNS Hijack: LinkedIn is recovering from a DNS issue that sent visitors to a different web site for an hour Wednesday nightThe issue, which is now resolved for

1,556 Instagrams Make 1 Incredible Stop-Motion Video: Rumors are floating around that Instagram intends to jump into the world of video-sharing, but the creative duo FriendsInFaux have made their own video from Instagram

'Chime' Instrument Turns City Sounds Into Musical Compositions: Horns honking, engines running and construction clanging — the urban jungles daily noises can be hard on the ears, and easy to ignoreBut Marc De Pape,

Multitalented Teen Is Ultimate Ladies' Man: There are two ways most teenage fellas try to attract the ladies: play sports or play music. If you play one, youre probably doing alright. If

Join Us Live From Facebook's Mysterious 'New Product' Event: A small group of Facebook employees have been working on “something big,” which the social network is set to unveil on Thursday.The press event for Facebooks

'Man of Steel' Reviews: This Looks Like a Job for … Twitter!: With Man of Steel in theaters and doing monumental box office numbers, the film has quickly become the hottest commodity of the summer.Reviews for the film

Jimmy Kimmel Will Channing All Over Your Tatum: Channing Tatums noodle, an explosive science fair project and Miley Cyrus under a vending machine — all that weirdness and more pops up in Jimmy Kimmels

Lolo Jones Vine Provokes Bobsledder Backlash: Hurdler Lolo Jones athletic talent, good looks and sassy social-media posts catapulted her to Internet fame before and during the 2012 Summer OlympicsBut Jones landed in

TWA Flight 800 Spawned the Internet's First Conspiracy Theories: On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 crashed just south of Long Island, claiming all 230 lives aboard the Boeing 747. A four-year National Transportation Safety

'The Sopranos' Star James Gandolfini Dead at 51: Report: Actor James Gandolfini, best known for his portrayl of mob boss Tony Soprano in The Sopranos has died. He was 51.HBO confirmed to Mashable on Wednesday

NBA Player Sells Bulldog on Twitter: Say youre a successful NBA player. Your massive Twitter following comes with many advantages: increased marketing appeal, the ability to interact with fans and a platform

Apple Scores $30M iPad Deal With L.A. Schools: Apple announced Wednesday that it has landed a major deal to sell iPad tablets to the second-largest public school district in the United States.The Los Angeles

Verizon: We’re Not Slowing Down Your Netflix: It’s a rainy day; you’re busy power loading Dr. Who on Netflix when it happensNetflix lapses into endlessly “Loading” your next episode, without actually ever playing

The Dumbest Things Redditors Have Done for Love: Love can make you do crazy things, like hoisting a boombox over your head to serenade your dream girl, sprinting to the love of your life

A 1.3 Billion-Pixel View of Mars: NASA released a 360-degree interactive panorama of Mars from Curiosity rovers point of viewThe image is actually a compilation of 900 photos — all of which

Read/WriteWeb

Xbox One Eighty: Why Microsoft Still Needs Gamers To Sell Gaming Consoles: Apparently, Microsoft has just remembered that it needs gamers to sell a gaming console. In a complete and humiliating reversal, Microsofts next-gen console just dropped some of the contentious bits that had formerly loyal gamers shouldering pitchforks and heading to

Microsoft Nearly Bought Nokia - WSJ: Technology pundits have long speculated that, one day, Microsoft would buy its way into manufacturing of its own mobile phones. Apparently that day came a lot closer to fruition than people had thought.According

Qvivo Might Just Be The Cloud Media Service You've Been Waiting For: Editors note: This post was originally published by our partners at Gear Patrol.The early years of the digital media revolution promised an unprecedented era of media freedom. Consumers had the power to play

Ouya Is A Tiny Box Open To Many Game Possibilities: A few weeks before our Ouya arrived in the mail, my husband was having second thoughts. Like 63,416 others, he’d eagerly parted with his cash (in his case, a cool $225 for the limited edition color and name plate etching),

5 Games That Make Sony And Microsoft's Console War Meaningless: After last weeks Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.Which one should you buy?

AMD Stiff-ARMs Intel By Offering ARM Server Chips: AMD is pushing its chips in on its commitment to ARM-based server technology, announcing the new Seattle ARM processor for launch in the second half of 2014.The release of an ARM-based processor built specifically for servers, instead of the smartphones

Instagram Videos Could Spell A Billion Dollars Worth Of Magic For Facebook: Facebook is widely expected to announce Thursday a video feature for Instagram, the photo-sharing service it bought for $1 billion last year.Some are speculating that this is a competitive response to Vine, Twitters clever short-video app. But what if Facebook

An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?: Given the inanity that is our current patent system, its not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of General

A Handy Guide To Google's Project Loon: No one can accuse Google of not thinking big. Project Loon, Googles audacious moonshot vision to bring mobile Internet connectivity to the billions without - via balloons - is one of the companys biggest ideas ever. Its madness, but it just

Google Cites First Amendment In Challenge To FISA Secrecy Order: Google, eager to salvage its security-related reputation in the wake of disclosures about the NSAs PRISM surveillance program, has asked a secretive intelligence court to let it disclose more details regarding government requests for information

Google's Next Nexus Is Nowhere In Sight: If you are waiting to get your hands on the latest and greatest of Google’s Nexus Android smartphones and tablets, the last month or so has been both exciting and disappointing.

The Disappointing Tale Of Pinterest's Long-Awaited API: The developer community has a message for Pinterest: what’s taking so long?Ever since March 2012, the image-sharing network has promised developers an API. And its in demand - according to ProgrammableWeb, the Pinterest API profile is the most frequently viewed

Microsoft's Most Wanted: A Convicted Child Molester Worked At Yammer: A few years ago, a fast-growing startup, adding staff at a breakneck pace, hired a facilities manager as a contractor without asking too many questions.That startup was Yammer, now part of Microsoft. And that contractor - Marcus Tillman - is

Chromebook Sales Expanding Despite Tablet-Leaning Market: Finding a Chromebook from Google has never been particularly hard to do, since theyve been available at Best Buy and Amazon for quite a while. But now Acers $199 model Chromebooks have gotten even more prolific, now available on the

Yahoo Reports Its Data Request Numbers: Yahoo has joined the ranks of Internet technology companies demonstrating their commitment to openness - and trying to rebuild trust with their users - with its own revelation of data requests received from law enforcement agencies.Yahoo announced the numbers in

Radical iOS 7 Design Is Threat To Some Existing Apps: iOS 7 is a truly audacious re-design of Apples chief operating system. I have been using the beta version since last week and its abundantly clear that Apple is determinedly focused on ensuring

Death By Lawsuit: SCO Resurrects And Insanity Is Restored: If ever we needed confirmation that markets, not courtrooms, should decide the technologies we use, witness SCO Groups reborn dream to sue all of UNIX-dom into its wallet. It was a specious lawsuit

Enabling The Mobile-First Enterprise: Guest author Jesus Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of KidoZen.It has taken more than five years, but the first phase of integrating mobile into enterprises is almost over. Enterprise mobility is evolving. The first generation of enterprise mobile solutions focused

Google Is Starting War On Child Pornography, Not Ending: Google is creating a global database of child abuse images that the company hopes, when shared with other search engines, will help eradicate child pornography from the Internet. While this is certainly a goal worth fighting for, sadly it is

Apple Denies PRISM Knowledge, Explains Releases Of Customer Data: Apple today released a statement revealing that it, too, has received requests for consumer data from Federal, state and local authorities in the United States, even as it denied participation in the alleged PRISM program conducted by the NSA.Apple joins

GigaOM

Verizon: That peering flap (about Netflix) is Cogent’s fault: The peering flap between Verizon and Cogent is shaping up to be a classic he said, she said. Cogent pointed the finger at Verizon and now Verizon is doing the same. And we are not done just yet.

German researchers make progress on a long-lasting battery for electric cars: A German research center claims to have produced a high-power battery for electric cars with an unprecedented 27-year lifetime.

Caregivers love the web but developers could do more to engage them: Data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that caregivers in the U.S. are the most connected healthcare consumers, but the industry could still do a lot more to reach them.

Picking the cloud’s winners and losers: From SaaS to SDN: At Structure, a panel of IT execs and investors discussed the enterprise IT winners and losers of the past few years. Heres what they had to say.

Open Compute is bringing the maker movement to the enterprise: Building boards and designing circuits are all the rage in the consumer gadget world, but Facebook and the Open Compute Project are trying to bring that spirit to the enterprise.

How streaming can fit into the big data toolbox: While Hadoop and relational databases have their purposes, SQLstream thinks companies can also benefit from analyzing data as it comes in.

Vogels: Everyone wants Amazon cloud everywhere: More gated Amazon Web Services mini-clouds could pop up outside the U.S. going forward.

TNW

India’s new surveillance program tracks phone calls and texts, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn(...): Despite the ongoing furore surrounding the various data gathering programs employed by the National Security Agency (NSA) in America, the

India to become the next destination for Google’s Android Nation brick-and-mortar stores: In a push to spread its mobile operating system throughout Asia, Google will open a set of brick-and-mortar

France orders Google to amend policy on Internet users’ data in 3 months or face fines: Google has been ordered by France to make changes to its policy regarding Internet users’ data within

Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer is now available to download in beta: The developers behind the popular Adblock Plus browser extension that blocks online advertisements has just released the first version compatible with Internet

AP buys minority stake in Bambuser, the ‘citizen journalist’ video service it partnered wit(...): The Associated Press (AP) is furthering its relationship with Bambuser, the mobile-based service that helps mobilize citizen journalists,

Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer is now available to download in beta: The developers behind the popular Adblock Plus browser extension that blocks online advertisements has just released the first version compatible with Internet

Soundwave is a new take on sharing your music taste on the go, and lets you discover what other(...): Last.fm has fallen from favor in recent years. That’s a

37signals

Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless: The New York Times has a fascinating interview about using Big Data to guide hiring and management techniques with Google’s VP of people operations, Lazlo Bock. Two things in particular stood out.First, “On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers

The Starter League launches Starter School: About two years ago, The Starter League set out to teach absolute beginners how to code. Since then, they’ve expanded their offerings to include HTML, CSS, and design.To date they’ve graduated over 600 students from all over the world. A

Building Know Your Company: Today our first five customers started using Know Your Company, our newest product. We’re hoping to roll out around five new customers every Monday for the foreseeable future.I thought this was a great time to talk a bit about how

VIDEO: Steve Jobs: The Most Important Thing (via…: Steve Jobs: The Most Important Thing (via Farnam Street). A simple reminder that each of us has the ability to shape life into whatever we can dream up.

INSIGHT: The first exception should be the hardest…: The first exception should be the hardest one to make. Once you’ve made one, each additional exception gets exponentially easier. Beware that first exception.

Apple: The organizational Rorschach: As we watched Apple unveil iOS7, the 37signals Campfire room quickly turned to awe of what they had achieved. A redesign so shocking and deep bestowed upon a product so popular left many mouths agape. Whether you happened to like

Beyond the default Rails environments: Rails ships with a default configuration for the three most common environments that all applications need: test, development, and production. That’s a great start, and for smaller apps, probably enough too. But for Basecamp, we have another three:Beta: For testing

Two i's: For a long time I’ve felt like the only thing worth working on is the next most important thing. Why spend time working on something that’s less important if there’s something more important that needs work?I’ve changed my mind on

Hi, I'm Dan.: Hi everyone—my name is Dan Kim, and I’m incredibly honored to introduce myself as the 37th signal! I joined the team on June 3, and I’ll be helping to build a brand new product, Know Your Company.Ever since I started

Intention revealing methods: The latest Basecamp for iPhone release involved an immense amount of refactoring with how HTTP requests and HTML pages were rendered. In a previous release, my coworker Sam wrote several methods that didn’t serve to reduce duplication, but instead their

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

The Switch Workshop: June 21, in Chicago: Customers don’t just buy a product — they switch from something else. And customers don’t just leave a product — they switch to something else.The last workshop sold out in just a few days, so if you‘d like to attend,

Bad Rap: I’m tired of hearing “Android seems cool, but the apps just don’t have that same polish as iOS ones.” Yes, there are duds on Google Play (their App Store). But there are duds in Apple’s App Store too. Here are

PHOTO: Illustrations for REMOTE: Office Not Required…: Illustrations for REMOTE: Office Not Required are being done by the fantastic Mike Rohde again. This one is for the essay “Stop Commuting Your Life Away”. The book is due out in October of

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

O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 20 June 2013: Wormhole — Facebook’s pub/sub system. Wormhole propagates changes issued in one system to all systems that need to reflect those changes – within and across data centers.Nanocubes — Fast Visualization of Large Spatiotemporal Datasets.Sean Gourley on Relevance (YouTube) — Is

Four short links: 19 June 2013: Multithreading is Hard — The compiler and the processor both conspire to defeat your threads by moving your code around! Be warned and wary! You will have to do battle with both. Sample code and explanation of WTF the eieio

Four short links: 18 June 2013: Our Backbone Stack (Pamela Fox) — fascinating glimpse into the tech used and why.Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python — My vision for an automated version of the game was simple. Players sit across a table on which the

Why We Started the Velocity Conference: Back in 2006, Debra Chrapaty, then VP of Operations for Windows Live (later CIO at Zynga, and now CEO of Nirvanix) made a prescient comment to me: “In the future, being a developer on someone’s platform will mean being hosted

Four short links: 17 June 2013: Weekend Reads on Deep Learning (Alex Dong) — an article and two videos unpacking “deep learning” such as multilayer neural networks.The Internet of Actual Things — “I have 10 reliable activations remaining,” your bulb will report via some ridiculous light-bulbs

Networked Things?: Well over a decade ago, Bill Joy was mocked for talking about a future that included network-enabled refrigerators. That was both unfair and unproductive, and since then, I’ve been interested in a related game: take the most unlikely household product

Four short links: 14 June 2014: How Geeks Opened up the UK Government (Guardian) — excellent video introduction to how the UK is transforming its civil service to digital delivery. Most powerful moment for me was scrolling through various depts’ web sites and seeing consistent visual

Radar podcast: the Internet of Things, PRISM, and defense technology that goes civilian: On this week’s podcast, Jim Stogdill, Roger Magoulas and I talk about things that have been on our minds lately: the NSA’s surveillance programs, what defense contractors will do with their technology as defense budgets dry up, and a Californian who

Four short links: 13 June 2013: The Unengageables (Dan Meyer) — They signed their “didactic contract” years and years ago. They signed it. Their math teachers signed it. The agreement says that the teacher comes into class, tells them what they’re going to learn, and shows

Four short links: 12 June 2013: geogit — opengeo project exploring the use of distributed management of spatial data. core concepts to handle versioning of geospatial data. Shapefiles, PostGIS or SpatiaLite data stored in a change-tracking repository, with all the fun gut features for branching history,

Four short links: 11 June 2013: For Example — amazing discussion of 3D visualization techniques, full of examples using the D3.js library and bl.ocks.org example gist system. Gorgeous and informative.Anti-Gravity 3D Printer — uses strands to sculpt on any surface. (via Slashdot)How 3D Printing Will Rebuild

Four short links: 10 June 2013: Anatomy of Two Memes — comparing the spread of Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake. Memes are like currencies: you need to balance accessibility (or ‘money supply’) and inflation. Gangnam Style became globally accessible through top-down mainstream sources (High Popularity), but

Four short links: 7 June 2013: Accumulo — NSA’s BigTable implementation, released as an Apache project.How the Robots Lost (Business Week) — the decline of high-frequency trading profits (basically, markets worked and imbalances in speed and knowledge have been corrected). Notable for the regulators getting access

Four short links: 6 June 2013: ShareFest — peer-to-peer file sharing in the browser. Source on GitHub. (via Andy Baio)Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (Bret Victor) — “Right now, today, we can’t see the thing, at all, that’s going to be the most important 100 years

Phishing in Facebook’s Pond: A recent blog post inquired about the incidence of Facebook-based spear phishing: the author suddenly started receiving email that appeared to be from friends (though it wasn’t posted from their usual email addresses), making the usual kinds of offers and

Four short links: 5 June 2013: OATV Fund III Pitch Deck (Slideshare) — contains a list of what they were investing in, and what they want to invest in with the new round. Then: Quantified self; Internet subsystems; Smart networks of things; Manipulation and visualization of

Radar podcast: anthropology, big data, and the importance of context: .powerpress_links {display:none;} .powerpress_player {display:none;}Jim Stogdill, Roger Magoulas and I enjoyed a widely discursive discussion last week, available as a podcast above. Roger, fresh from our Fluent conference on JavaScript, opens by talking about the emergence of JS as a heavyweight

Really Understanding Computation: Understanding Computation, From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs, by Tom StuartIt’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made

Big data vs. big reality: This post originally appeared on Cumulus Partners. It’s republished with permission.Quentin Hardy’s recent post in the Bits blog of The New York Times touched on the gap between representation and reality that is a core element of practically every human

Four short links: 4 June 2013: WeevilScout — browser app that turns your browser into a worker for distributed computation tasks. See the poster (PDF). (via Ben Lorica)sregex (Github) — A non-backtracking regex engine library for large data streams. See also slide notes from a YAPC::NA

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

ProgrammableWeb

Today in APIs: API World Conference and Expo Registration, AnyPresence Meta-API and 10 New APIs: Early registration for the API World Conference and Expo is ending soon. AnyPresence has launched a platform that enables integration of mobile app building tools. Plus: Social recommendations API from Jinni and

Ringadoc Debuts ‘Anywhere, Anytime’ Doctor Answering Service API: It’s after five o’clock, and you’ve got a weird rash running up your arm. You call your doctor, but instead end up talking to an after-hours operator, who jots down notes,

ActiveStandards API: Making Sure Your Site Measures Up: ActiveStandards, an SaaS website quality management platform, provides the ActiveStandards API, that gives developers access to the toolset, allowing them to integrate it with other websites and use the functionality wherever it is most appropriate for

Automobile: The Next Major Technology Platform – Part I – Connected Vehicle Developer Progr(...): The Car as a Platform wars have been heating up for some time now and ProgrammableWeb has published several posts on the topic, including: Car as a Platform Wars: GM Joins Ford by Adam DuVander,

53 Analysis APIs: Ferret go, HP Labs and Lytics: Our API directory now includes 53 analysis APIs. The newest is the DMV TREDS API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the HP Labs Multimedia Analytic Platform API. We

Urban Airship Powers Push Notifications for Three Massive Event Apps: Urban Airship, the most globally deployed mobile push messaging service, has announced three new world-class events will utilize its push messaging platform to keep attendees and viewers more engaged than ever before. The Bonnaroo

Today in APIs: Pinterest API, Ringadoc API and 10 New APIs: Pinterest API continues to be elusive. Ringadoc API streamlines out of office communication between doctors and patients. Plus: SlickText.com readies for an API launch next week and 10 new APIs.

Latest Hackathon Competition Advice? Book Early: Global interest in hackathons is growing fast, with many events booking out shortly after being announced. Developers keen to test out new skills in real world environments, and entrepreneurs who want to connect

Elastic Path Secures $8 Million for Digital Commerce API: One day, you might be doing your holiday shopping from your car. Elastic Path believes the future of digital commerce will follow the shopping experience, going beyond websites to a new era of smart devices,

VidyoConferencing 3.0: New Capabilities Available With API Integration: Vidyos VidyoConferencing 3.0 is a major release including a new desktop conferencing system, a sharing and collaboration system, and two new room system form factors. One of the most

Dimple: PMSI Launches Open Source D3 API: Practical Management Solutions and Insights (PMSI) has launched an open-source API project for business analytics: dimple. Dimple aims to open up the flexibility and power of d3 to analysts. With little d3 knowledge needed, the

Fighting Off The Fraudsters: Socure API: The World Wide Web can be a charlatans playground with the potential of accessing reams of personal details and passwords to exploit as they please. Of course, there are secure solutions in place and we

40 Reviews APIs: TripAdvisor, Shopzilla and US Yellow Pages: Our API directory now includes 40 reviews APIs. The newest is the Open Game API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Shopzilla API. We list 27 Shopzilla mashups. Below youll find some

Today in APIs: Elastic Path Pushes Commerce API Platform, Keek’s New API, and 15 New APIs: Elastic Path raises $8 milloon for Commerce Everywhere API platform. Keek launches API program. Plus: automating the connections between humans and machines in the API economy, Nuvo releases new API for wireless audio system, and

Framebase Offers an API for Video: At its very core, Framebase constitutes an API for video. The Framebase API enables developers to easily add video to an application without the hassles that usually accompany video. Whether an app needs to record,

RESTful APIs: White House Sets The Standard(s): The United States’ White House has developed a set of API standards they are hoping will be used across all government agencies. The standards were developed following a number of API releases, including

TWUBS Debuts Twitter API Compliant Chat Tool: Attending a Twitter Chat is akin to attending an online cocktail party. It happens when a lot of people, all using the same hashtags, Tweet on the same topic. The chats

Two Video APIs from that Giant Search Engine that Starts with G…: Quick: name that huge search engine you use a lot that starts with G but isnt...Google. (Hint: its a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony.) Right. Its Gracenote, the folks who help you identify all those

Apple iOS 7 & Gamepad: A Super Hero API or Just a Hero Complex?: Apples coming support for MFi game controllers: all set to disrupt the industry or just another iBookstore? The key may be in Apples API. Or it could be a new factor, its impact on gadgepop or gadget population, the number

Converser API: Hear It Straight From The Customer’s Mouth: For businesses and brands, the customer is king, and being able to know what makes consumers tick is a definite advantage. Converser makes this a possibility by enabling application owners to interact with their customers

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