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Green Goose: Save Money Using Sensors
In the future, Green Goose might also be able to pull savings data in "from open APIs like that proposed by Google Power Meter for savings earned by using less electricity." Green Goose is a new financial management service that launched today, which connects sensor activity to your savings account. At first Green Goose sounded a little gimmicky.
ReadWriteWeb - Monday, February 8, 2010
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What's Next For Geolocation? Apps, Apps, Apps
Secondly, it took the very sensible step of opening its API early on. There are hundreds of applications that run on the Twitter API now (most of which are listed at oneforty.com ). It is very likely that by the end of 2010 we will see similar numbers of applications for Foursquare, and, should Gowalla and the rest open their APIs, for those services too. Geolocation social networks are set to be in 2010 what microblogging was in 2008 - the next big thing. Currently the space is being dominated by Foursquare , with others like Gowalla , MyTown and Loopt trailing
ReadWriteWeb - Monday, February 8, 2010
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Stumbling Onto Something Useful
The application uses the Microsoft API CodePack to manipulate libraries, which I encourage you to check out if you are writing software to integrate / take advantage of new features in Windows 7. It isn’t often I find something useful [software, that is] while stumbling about with StumbleUpon . It is something I really enjoy, because I pick up lots of useful information, but seldom do I get pointed toward software, useful or otherwise.
Lockergnome Blog Network - Monday, February 8, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • WatchMouse Monitors 26 Popular APIs So You Don’t Have To
    Website monitoring startup WatchMouse is launching a new service dubbed API-status.com today, a website that displays realtime availability and performance of popular, public APIs. The lists of monitored APIs consists of 26 of the most heavily trafficked Web services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, SalesForce, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and others. API-status.com calls and checks for a valid result on each of the APIs every five minutes from 42 locations across the globe. If the system detects an anomaly or delay of more
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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  • Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground
    Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google's Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google's interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google's eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries, and Earth). The API Playground will also become Google's official way to show Javascript samples. Sponsor You can currently try out and manipulate over 170 code samples in the Playground, ranging from simple
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, January 22, 2009
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  • Google's Sneaky Launch of Latitude's Location-Sharing API
    These have generated a lot of press, but I haven't seen much discussion about the first sighting of the Latitude API. On KML -> http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user= JSON -> http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user= Google has extended their location sharing service Latitude ( Radar post ) with the first set of Latitude Apps . One of them is a blog badge for sharing your location publicly on a website.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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  • How NPR is Embracing Open Source and Open APIs
    Daniel Jacobson is in charge making that content available to developers and end users in a wide variety of formats, and has been doing so using an Open API that NPR developed specifically for that purpose. So that includes the website, podcasts, API, mobile sites, HD radios, anything that has some sort of visual component to it. Daniel Jacobson: I manage the application News providers, like most content providers, are interested in having their content seen by as many people as possible. But unlike many news organizations, whose primary concern may be monetizing their content,
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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  • Wolfram|Alpha API to be released later today
    We've just been told that the public API for Wolfram Alpha will be made available later today. The API documentation will be available at http://products.wolframalpha.com/api . It's hard to write much about an API that hasn't appeared yet, but let me tell you why I think it's important. As of noon, PDT, that page only redirects to the Alpha home page, but they've promised it will be available sometime this afternoon. It's Lots of writers have compared Alpha to Google, but I think that's a mistake.
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, October 15, 2009
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  • Burning Man Gets an API (and a Whole Lot More)
    An API! This year the Burning Man organization is assisting with the launch of an API . With the API you get access to descriptions and locations of the Streets, Art, Camps and Events. You can learn more about the API project here . Burning Man's theme this year is evolution SMS! Foursquare!
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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  • Developers Create Unofficial Find My iPhone API
    Just like Google Latitude's nascent Location API this is really just a proof of concept application for developers. Before a Mobile Me Location API will get widespread use it will need OAuth , the ability to control the accuracy of my location data, and reminders and, most significantly, it will need Apple's official sanctioning. Since The iPhone is correctly credited with bringing location services to the consumer. It started at launch with Google Maps .
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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