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CrunchWeek: Yahoo's $1.1B Tumblr Purchase, Lyft's Big Raise, And Microsoft's Xbox One: It’s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past

Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of Summer Launch: Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to

Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom: Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One,

What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft's Spruce Goose: Microsofts Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living

Gillmor Gang: Parlor Games & Metaphones: The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segued into

Reminder: Google Buzz Is Still Dead, Your Data Will Be Moved To Drive, And They Thank You For U(...): Google Buzz, the social service that Google launched way back in 2010 and then killed in 2011, reminded former users that their data still lives

The New "Handmade" (Part Two): Although 3D printing technology has existed for some time, its only now beginning to cross over into mainstream awareness, thanks to increasingly affordable

Mashable

The Epic Journey Through Dieting: To say that dieting is tough is quite the understatement. In fact, sometimes we go to great measures to overcome the temptation of deliciously unhealthy foods.SEE

Top 10 Tech This Week: As we enjoy Memorial Weekend, we look back to another great week in the world of technology. And if youre wondering what happened in the last

How Hackers Stole $45 Million in Two Days: It was a bank heist for the digital era: No masks, no weapons, no standoffs with police — just a few keyboards and an elaborate hacking

How the Facebook Developer Platform Has Changed How We Use the Web: To say the Facebook Developer Platform changed the web as we know it would be a dramatic understatement. Originally launching in 2007 as a tool for

Google Buzz Is About to Finally Buzz Off: More than 18 months after announcing that it was shutting down Google Buzz, Google is taking the final steps in snuffing out the platform.According to an

12 Cicadas Totally Trapped in 1996: The East Coast cicadas, currently emerging by the billions, have spent the last 17 years underground, making todays world a bit of a shock for themIn

15 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed: Memorial Day weekend has arrived in a hurry, spreading some unseasonably cold weather across the country. If youve been busy prepping for your weekend getaway plans

10 Apps for Enjoying the Great Outdoors: When you think about enjoying the great outdoors, embracing the natural world and soaking up all of the suns vitamin D, technology doesnt really enter the

Are Today's App Companies Amusing Us to Death or Building the Future?: The national conversation of late has revolved around a trio of Washington scandals, a weather disaster, and the seesaw views in financial markets about whether crisis

Gmail Overhaul Might Be On the Way: Despite rolling out a major overhaul a little over a year ago, Google could be preparing to redesign the Gmail experience on iOS, Android and the

Hacker Turns Westboro Baptist Church Hate Page Into Donation Site: The Westboro Baptist Church can add another group to its hate list: hackers.The Christian fundamentalist group, notorious for its God Hates Fags protests, launched a website

GIF vs. JIF: Does It Even Matter?: At the Webby Awards this week, Steve Wilhite, father of the Graphics Interchange Format, used his five-word acceptance speech to end a popular debate: Its pronounced

25 Ways to Celebrate Geek Pride Day: Youre surrounded by geeks every day. Your commute is filled with people playing Dots. Your best friend spends her Saturday nights creating Everquest fan art. And

Hiring Interns: Do's and Don'ts: Hiring interns for your company means more than just finding a pair of hands to get you coffee or feet to run your clothes to the

FOMO the Movie: The Terrifying Social Truth: For all the amazing ways social media has changed our lives, its come with some downsides, as well. Chief among those is FOMO — that is,

Elon Musk Wants to Build an Electric Pickup Truck: How did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the

Askem Gets You the Answers You Need, Fast: The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have

Video Captures Scary Washington Bridge Collapse: More proof that the cameras are everywhere. The frightening collapse of a bridge in Washington State on the busy Interstate 5 was actually caught by a

Myspace's New Architects Reveal How to Rebuild a Brand: Theres perhaps nothing harder than changing the public perception of a brand once its been imprinted in popular cultures psyche. Especially when its left a bad

Alfonso Ribeiro, Will and Jaden Smith Do the Carlton Dance: Gather round nerds, 90s kids and fans of Carlton BanksWill Smith and son Jaden recently made an appearance on the BBCs Graham Norton Show. In the

Read/WriteWeb

Marissa Mayer Has Already Made One Big Mistake With Tumblr: Yahoos $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr is already being hailed as a brilliant move, securing a younger Internet demographic and a fertile field for native advertising, an innovative business model where content from brands lives side

Google Planning Wireless Networks To Connect The Next 1B People - WSJ: If Google had its way, everyone in the world would be on the Internet, using Google services. To bring that goal to fruition, Google is reportedly working to build cellular networks in Africa and Southeast Asia

Microsoft And Google Declare A Truce In Their YouTube Fight: Google and Microsoft are finally shaking hands and agreeing to work together over Microsofts controversial YouTube app for Windows Phone devices.Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to

iOS 7 Rumor Watch: 'Black, White and Flat All Over': Its widely rumored that Apples new iOS 7, to be unveiled at WWDC next month, will ditch the companys ill-fated love affair with heavy textures, also known as skeuomorphic design, for a more flattened take on

Google Has A Trojan Horse To Disrupt TV: Really, Really Big Data: Its a huge year for TVs future. Yet for all the excitement about Web-first soap operas, data-driven programming and the disruption of broadcast, the Internet TV inflection point that 2013 has become is just the beginning.

3 Reasons Why Digital Detox Is So Enticing: Guest author Sam Hailes is a freelance journalist from the UK.What does this button do? That was the cryptic yet clever final tweet from John Mayer in 2010 when he abandoned his 3.7 million followers.5% off

Geek Film Review: Iron Man 3 Reveals It's A Tech World After All: Iron Man 3 is a great - nearly classic - summer blockbuster, filled with awesome special effects, stellar performances, fewer plot holes than explosions and a heartfelt geek message at its core: technology drives and inspires

Hulu On The Auction Block: Four companies are reportedly making bids for online video service Hulu, which has apparently put on the auction block after a disagreement between owners News Corporation and Walt Disney Company on how to operate the TV steaming

Making Android Pay: 5 Tips To Topping The Charts On Google Play: This post is the third in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, focusing on the opportunities and challenges that mobile developers face trying to make money from Android Apps.In the waning hours of the Google I/O developers conference

A Modest Proposal To Stop The iPhone Crime Wave: If you havent heard, were in the midst of a rampant and sometimes violent iPhone crime wave. In San Francisco, smartphone theft accounts for nearly half of all robberies in the city. Most of these are iPhones. In New York City, there

Hadoop 2.0 & YARN: Get Ready For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough: Lately, it seems like Hadoop, the open source data platform seemingly so integral to the rise of Big Data, cant catch a break. Instead of relying on Hadoop as a key Big Data storage and analysis

Waze Mapped As The Billion-Dollar Treasure: Reports are coming out today that Israeli mapping company Waze is now being eyed as an acquisition target by Google, for the tune of $1 billion. This, just days after similar reports that Facebook was looking

Nintendo's Epic Fail — Grabbing Copyright From Its YouTube Fans: You might think that Nintendo, beleaguered by falling revenues, minuscule profit and the almost-but-not-quite-failed launch of the Wii U, already has enough problems to worry about.And you would be wrong, as Nintendo itself set out to

Geek Pride Day Is May 25: Here's How To Celebrate: Ready to embrace another arbitrary holiday - or just looking for an excuse to slack off and eat cake? Who isn’t?This Saturday, May 25, is internationally known as Geek Pride Day. “But, Pi Day and Star

News Flash! Tablets Are Not Smartphones: You probably already knew this, but a new report from Forrester wants to emphasize this seemingly obvious point: Tablets are not simply larger touchscreen smartphones. There are significant difference in where people use them, how they use

Shazam's New iPad App Is Designed For Watching TV With A Tablet, Too: Shazam, an app best known for identifying songs playing around you, is making a big move into identifying all kinds of media playing around you.That promises to move Shazam from our pockets, where its smartphone apps

Google App Engine Cuts Prices By One-Quarter: Google is reducing Datastore prices by up to 25%, according to an announcement on their Cloud Platform Blog. This price change impacts both App Engines HRD and the new Cloud Datastore introduced last week at I/O.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Saves Companies Money - But Could Cost Users Big: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with. But according to a new study from Cisco,

Android Dramatically Extends Lead With Open Source Developers: Despite Google Androids long market-share rise against Apple iOS, developers continued to stick with iOS as their first deployment target. While Android offered superior volume, that volume was fragmented between different versions of the OS and

Square Storms Japan: Square, the mobile payment service that has been making strong inroads within the North American retail sector, has announced the availability of its service in Japan. The company is already processing $15 billion in annualized payments,

GigaOM

More sources say Intel Atom to power Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3: Sources at VentureBeat have confirmed that Samsung has chosen Intels Atom to power at least one Samsung Galaxy Tab device, giving the chip-maker a desperately needed design win in the Android tablet market.

Who needs investors! Why many startups should bootstrap instead: Many of todays startups are obsessed with figuring out the best way to score investors. But for many companies bootstrapping it might result in a better product and a healthier business in the long run.

It’s a trap! Publishers crave an alternative to Google’s adtech “Death Star”: Adtech has made great strides but is in a period of transition. The most pressing concern for publishers? The need for a soup-to-nuts provider that isnt also a competitor like Google.

How to create your own audiobooks: For authors who want to use their own home equipment to narrate an audio version of their own books, or if you want to record your kids reading their favorite stories for posterity, you can do it with a microphone,

Vine, hip-hop and the future of video sharing: Is there a reason Vine videos are exactly six seconds long? Yes, and it has a lot to do with high profile court cases that almost destroyed hip hop music.

Android this week: Nexus 7 cloned for $149; Google Edition HTC One; Chrome beta updated: If the $199 Nexus 7 is out of your budget range, a new $149 Hisense clone may be worth a look. HTC may announce a Google Edition HTC smartphone and Chrome beta users gain some useful new features.

7 stories to read this weekend: The long weekend is here and that means a lot to read: or at least I like to do that. Here are some amazing stories about San Francisco, Rajat Gupta, Argentina in the 1970s, Buffalo, razors, Philip Dick, Facebook, Brooklyn

TNW

The truth about being acquired: Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vooza, “the world’s most unbelievable tech startup.” Been following the Tumblr/Yahoo deal? Notice how every company that gets acquired says the same things... Keep reading →

eBay asks users to petition US House of Representatives over “unfair” Internet sales tax le(...): eBay has begun reaching out to its users to petition the US House of Representatives over what it calls ”unfair Internet sales tax legislation.” This campaign is, of course, in regards to... Keep reading →

Simplify your responsive design workflow with Screensiz.es, a database of mobile and desktop�(...): Type/Code, the interaction design studio behind Google’s Currents app, has launched Screensiz.es, a deceptively simple database of (…you guessed it!) screen sizes. This free service lets you view

11 tips for developing a mobile app that users will love: Entrepreneurs are now going well beyond building mobile-friendly versions of their websites to create apps that actually add to their bottom line —

UK TV legend Maggie Philbin on why we should all do more to tempt teens into a career in tech: Maggie Philbin introduced a whole generation to the wonders of technology as a presenter

European startups: Here are some practical tips for raising capital in the US: Editor’s note: Brendan Gill is the co-founder and CEO of OpenSignal, a startup that crowdsources data on mobile networks from

More than a year after its shutdown, Google to move all Buzz posts to its Drive service on July 17: Google is taking the “last step” in its shutdown

37signals

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

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

O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 24 May 2013: Ubiquity — Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers.Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging (EFF) — it

Burning the silos: If I’ve seen any theme come up repeatedly over the past year, it’s getting product cycle times down. It’s not the sexiest or most interesting theme, but it’s everywhere: if it’s not on the front burner, it’s always simmering in

Four short links: 23 May 2013: Kindle Worlds Fine Print — Amazon’s fanfic publishing system has a few flaws: no pr0n, no slash (crossovers), and Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright. I can’t

Talking about in-memory: I flew to the west coast this week to attend Maker Faire with my computer-programming, ham-radio-building, hardware-curious teenage cousin. I’ve attended twice in New York but this was my first trip to the mothership. Wow. So much cool stuff to

Four short links: 22 May 2013: XBox One Kinect Controller (Guardian) — the new Kinect controller can detect gaze, heartbeat, and the buttons on your shirt.Surveillance and the Internet of Things (Bruce Schneier) — Lots has been written about the “Internet of Things” and how it

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

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

6 APIs Used in 7 Days: Foursquare, Echo Nest and PriceSpin: This past week 6 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 6 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include PriceSpin and Primal. The

Today In APIs: Lambda Labs Glass API, Pinterest API and 9 New APIs: Lambda Labs to debut Facial Recognition API for Google Glass. Will we finally see the release of the Pinterest API? Plus: National Crime Victimization Survey Data is now available in open data format

Best New Mashups: Pinterest Mashups: The ever elusive Pinterest API made news once again this week when its documentation briefly appeared on the Pinterest developer site. Here at ProgrammableWeb, the Pinterest API profile is our most viewed page showing that

TippingCircle Launches New API Allowing Developers to Integrate Social Payments Into Apps: TippingCircle, a social payments platform, has announced the launch of a brand new hybrid API that allows developers to integrate the TippingCircle platform into web, mobile and desktop applications.

Postmaster Announces Carrier Integration Partner and New Funding: We first brought news of Postmaster a few months ago. Since then, the Postmaster API has gained new customers and Postmaster has raised significant capital from eager investors. Along with its recent success, Postmaster announced

Mention API: Know Who’s Saying What About Your Brand: Whether we like it or not, social media is a powerful marketing tool, and what people are saying about a brand or business can have a noticeable effect; good or bad. What would be really

The SciBite API: Digging Up Pharma News: The SciBite API provides access to SciBites real-time drug discovery search engine that combs developments in biotech and pharma. By tracking patents and clinical trials around the globe, scientific news, biomedical reagents and even biomedical

Today in APIs: Hostelbookers’s API, Tipping Circle’s Global Social API, and 9 New APIs: Hostelbookers has a new API. TippingCircle helps developers organize group payments. Plus: Miami Beachs tourism API, Angelhack hackathon, and 9 new APIs.

Share Entire Conversations With TweetVue’s API: Some Twitter users may have, at some point, had the need to share a conversation or a string of tweets with other people, and would have been left frustrated with the discovery that there wasnt

Khronos Group to Develop Open API for Advanced Camera Control: Khronos Group, open standards consortium behind some of todays most innovative technologies, has announced a new initiative to develop an open, royalty-free API for advanced, low-level control of mobile and embedded cameras and sensors.

Twitter Extends Cut-Off for v1 to Allow for More Testing: Good news for developers who are migrating to the Twitter API version 1.1. They now have until June 11 to make the transition. After that, it’s lights out for any application still running on v1.

Tibco Gets on the Cloud Integration Bus: There’s no shortage of integration platforms in the cloud these days with Tibco Software becoming the latest vendor to join their ranks. Tibco this week unfurled Tibco Cloud Bus, a subscription

AngelHack Hackathon and Accelerator Program Offers Hackers Chance to Win Funding, Mentorship, P(...): AngelHack, a premier educational technology events company, has just announced that the biggest hackathon competition in the world AngelHack, is now accepting applications for the AngelHack Accelerator Program, Summer 2013 cycle.

Today in APIs: The Celery API Provides Pre-Commerce Options, Sprout Social adds Google Plus Pag(...): The Celery API enables Crowdfunding projects to easily pre-sell product in advance of release. Sprout Social makes Google Plus Pages management easier for users. Plus: the Truecaller API is a phone directory via

Metwit Weather API Now Features Push Weather Notifications: Last month, ProgrammableWeb reported that Metwit was releasing a free, short term trial plan of the Metwit Weather API to help developers who have created applications using Yahoo! Weather APIs and have been impacted by

Screenhero Offers Collaborative Screen Sharing via API: Screenhero exists purely to share your computer screen; with anyone, anywhere, anytime. As the Screenhero team describes on their website: its like Google Docs for any application on your computer. Additionally, Screenhero enables developers to

96 Stocks APIs: Bloomberg, NASDAQ and E*TRADE: Our API directory now includes 96 stocks APIs. The newest is the Eurex VALUES API. The most popular, in terms of directory page views, is the Bloomberg API. Below youll find some more stats from

When Text Doesn’t Quite Get The Message Across: SayRoom API: The sharing of thousands of online images is a big part of daily social media interaction. Even with the accompanying comments enhanced by expressive punctuation or clever emoticons, however, nothing beats an actual spoken response

The Truecaller API: Phone Directory via Crowd-source: The 600 million numbers that Truecaller has in its directory have been collected via crowd-sourcing. Truecaller’s users can share their contacts and in return they get access to search in the collaborative database. Thanks to

Today In APIs: Duedil API, Box HIPAA Compliance and 9 New APIs: Duedil API widens its reach with company information from 20 additional countries across Europe. Box Developers can now take advantage of its HIPAA Compliance Plus: Khronos to create Camera Control Open Standard API

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