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The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter
In total, the crawler was able to scan 80 million Twitter accounts during the month of August 2009. The researchers also used the Twitter API to gather additional information about a user's social links and tweets. A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the Twitter accounts of over 54 million active users, out of some 80 million accounts crawled by their servers.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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NorthScale’s Data Management Technology Attracts Zynga And Others
value database which builds on the NorthScale Memcached Server foundation and is directly compatible with memcached APIs and client libraries. Founded in 2009, the startup has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. CrunchBase Information NorthScale Information provided by CrunchBase ...Tags: Under the radar startup NorthScale is publicly launching today with a new data management technology to help web-based companies, particularly startups that deal with large amounts of transactional data.
TechCrunch - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference and TechNow. Glue focuses on the APIs and protocols (Twitter, Facebook, Websockets, PubSubHubBub, XMPP), formats and standards (RDF/Linked Data, JSON, Microformats, HTML5), platforms and providers (Amazon, Rackspace, Google App Engine, Salesforce.com, Eucalyptus), Identity Protocols (OAuth/WRAP, SAML, OpenID, SPML) emerging NoSQL data models (Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, HBase), and other mechanisms that
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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  • Twitter: A Marketer's Duct Tape
    The interfaces to the capability are simple and well defined in their Applications Programming Interface (API), which makes it easy to plug into their messaging capability. Tags: Communication Marketing Social media AP Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible , easily available, and cheap. Twitter shares all these attributes.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, April 9, 2009
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  • Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009
    2009 has seen a lot of Semantic Web and structured data activity. This is the third in our series of top products of 2009: Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2009 Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2009 Zemanta's API is also being used by startups. Much of it has been driven by Linked Data , a W3C project which gained momentum this year. According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, Linked Data is a sea change akin to the invention of the WWW itself.
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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  • Google Launches Maps Data API
    was expecting an API announcement and Google delivered one. Lior Ron and Steve Lee announced their Maps Data API , a service for hosting geodata. The Google Maps Data API allows client applications to view, store and update map data in the form of Google Data API feeds using a data model of features (placemarks, lines and shapes) and maps (collections of features). The crowd at Where 2.0 As they describe it on the site:
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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  • Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies of 2009
    As part of our annual Best of Series, below are our picks for the most important RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2009. This is the fifth in our series on top products of 2009: Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2009 Top 10 Consumer Web Apps The web isn't about pages any more. Now it's about streams, feeds and syndication.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, December 4, 2009
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  • Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps
    Online payment giant PayPal recently announced the PayPal X APIs, a new group of developer APIs designed to enable new applications that can more tightly integrate with PayPal services. To encourage developers to create some awesome applications with the APIs, PayPal is offering prizes $100,000 and $50,000 (in cash plus waived transaction fees) for the best new applications. Two enduring tenets of Web 2.0 are "A platform beats an application every time" and "All the smart people don't work for you."
    OReilly Radar - Monday, December 14, 2009
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  • Top 10 Web Platforms of 2009
    2009 has been a big year for mobile and real-time technologies, which is reflected in our selection of the top 10 Web platforms of the year. It's the final instalment of our series of top products of 2009 . As we noted in last year's round-up , a web platform can be as simple as an API (like Twitter's) that allow external developers to tap into a company's data. It can also be software and services, like Amazon's Web Services. Or it can be a fully fledged development platform, such as iPhone SDK and Adobe AIR.
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, December 14, 2009
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  • Top 10 Real-Time Technologies of 2009
    ReadWriteWeb's Best Products of 2009: He created the first popular blogging software (Radio Userland), was the first to enable podcast delivery in an RSS feed visa-vi the now standard method of enclosures, he built the web's leading blog ping server (weblogs.com), he ushered RSS into the mainstream, he created the format for sharing bundles of RSS feeds and other outlines (OPML), he wrote the XML-RPC framework (predecessor of SOAP) and the MetaWeblog API for remote blog management. Facebook, for all its shortcomings, The real-time web was hot this year and it's likely to become a standard expectation on sites all around the world next year.
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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  • Sensors, Smart Content, and the Future of News
    He also asked the question: why doesn't my couch have an API? Tags: ETech 200 Nick Bilton from The New York Times R&D Labs was at ETech today, talking about how NYT is preparing for the future of news delivery. His presentation explored how "sensors in every part of our lives [are] helping us aggregate smart content that is relevant to the device we are using". Bilton
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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  • Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data
    This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009. However the way 2009 has panned out so far, it's become clear that this trend is much more than the Semantic Web. Sponsor Editor's note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we'll re-publish some of our best posts of 2009. We'll be posting one trend analysis per day. Then at the end of the week we'll publish a major update to our standard presentation about web technology trends.
    ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, December 26, 2009
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  • Top 10 International Web Products of 2009
    Check out our picks for the top 10 international web products of 2009 and let us know your favorite international apps in the comments. This is the fourth in our series of top products of 2009: Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2009 Much of this blog's coverage centers on technology and companies based in the U.S, particularly in Silicon Valley.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, December 4, 2009
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