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Open Data Pointers
Componentization and Open Data , Collaborative Development of Data : OKFN are figuring out packaging and structure of distributed data development. Data RSS -- proposal for an API for data feeds. But even intrinsic data can be more collaboratively maintained: take bug reports and corrections from users (there is no 800 block of Main, did you mean the 80 block of Main?). When I blogged about truly open data , readers sent me a lot of interesting links. I've collected them all below.
OReilly Radar - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible
Mashery : API management services | You don't need to be a programmer or hire one - no language to learn, no plug-ins, no API. Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery's expertise. At the "Business of APIs" conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business decision. Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too.
ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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#140tc: Essential Tools of the Twitter Connoisseur
There are even options for collaborating and a sweet iPhone app is on the way. CoTweet is a great tool for collaboration within businesses all on one place. Searchtastic is yet another search tool for Twitter, but is pretty impressive in how far back it reaches into the API for results. This is one of several posts covering TweetHouse’s 140 Twitter Conference that took place on March 8, 2010. The 140tc focused on everything from Twitter basics to advanced tools and uses for business and beyond.
Lockergnome Blog Network - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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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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  • Developers: Never Mind the APIs, Here's YQL Execute
    "I Tried YQL Execute and All I Got Was an Authenticated Javascript API Proccesing Layer in the Cloud" There's a great amount of data available on the Web in APIs or even straight HTML. But traditionally, it's the heavy lifting (the broad variety of programming languages used in APIs, the challenges presented by complicated authentications, the occasional need for massive pipes) that has made accessing and sorting data into useful applications a laborious process. It's all there for the parsing - and parsed data from social media in particular is held to be a goldmine.
    ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, May 2, 2009
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  • Devs Hack iPhone API for True Augmented Reality
    The iPhone has a private API for analysis of live-streaming video but developers' requests that it be made accessible haven't been granted by Apple. The new software opening up access to that API was made freely available to anyone this morning by the team that built it. The Visual Media Lab at Ben Gurion University in collaboration with HIT Lab NZ wrote the code in question and unveiled it along with video demonstrations An international team of computer scientists has created software that lets anyone perform on-the-fly analysis of live streaming video on the iPhone.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, October 16, 2009
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  • Aviary Releases API: Add Image Editing to Your Website
    Aviary , a sophisticated online collaborative image editing tool suite, today released a much awaited API . In addition to offering multiple tools that effectively offer a collaborative version of Photoshop, on the web, for free or with a subscription plan, the company just published a book about how to create visual effects using its software. They've opened a free API, made a blog post and will likely make a much wider impact than traditional The interface will allow any 3rd party website to add image editing tools right into its existing offerings. This
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, April 20, 2009
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  • Google Releases API for Cool Visualization of Data Mashups from Many Sources
    Google has just announced it's releasing an API for Fusion Tables . The API integrates with Google Maps, App Engine, Base Data and Visualizations APIs, as well, to allow for motion charts, timelines, graphs and maps with all the data available and running on Google's infrastructure. The API allows users to upload data from any source, from text files to full databases, and see their data merged and compared in cool visualizations. A recently released Google Labs product called Fusion Tables allowed users to grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs and other sources and create compelling, comprehensive visualizations from a merged data set.
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, December 14, 2009
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  • Google Releases Real-Time Gadget APIs
    The gadgets.realtime is a Javascript library on top of a collection of APIs based on Google Talk. University of Amsterdam student Sander Dijkhuis already built a collaborative text editing gadget using one of the APIs and we expect to see more interesting examples emerge shortly. There are lots of things that APIs like that could make possible. The Google developer conference has been chock-full of announcements, but one that we are particularly excited about is a "20% time" project from software engineer Moishe Lettvin. Right now implementation is limited
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, May 28, 2009
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  • InSTEDD: Enabling Collaboration in Third World Countries
    Eric Rasmussen spoke about how InSTEDD has a focus on collaboration, using both technical and sociological means. Another issue is that mobile phones don't necessarily support the different languages spoken by people, or different people speak different languages and so collaborating is difficult. Driving the system is a "semi-structured" API with an extensible pipeline. At ETech today members of the InSTEDD team spoke about how they have been building SMS and mapping applications, in the Mekong Delta in the jungles of South East Asia. InSTEDD (Innovative Support
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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  • Socialcast Introduces Official Developer API For Cross-Company Collaboration
    Socialcast , the realtime collaboration software platform, today announced the release of its official developer API after weeks of beta-testing. With the new Socialcast API , both internal IT folks or outside developers can extend the product with new functionality. And companies who are partners can expose their Socialcast activity streams to each other for cross-enterprise collaboration. Essentially, Socialcast lets employees in companies communicate via activity streams, create groups, and share links, file, and knowledge across the enterprise. Rather than
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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  • Four short links: 30 July 2009
    Released -- revealing glimpse into how third-party apps (such as this iPhone app, built on the Brooklyn Museum's API) reflect on the institution providing the API. What, Exactly, is Open Science? - In general, we’re moving towards an era of greater transparency in all of these topics (methodology, data, communication, and collaboration). Tags: apis iphoneapp opensource platforms scienc iPhone App v1.3 Brooklyn Museum has dealt with this sensitively and intelligently, a model to all.
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, July 30, 2009
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  • Exploring Social Collaboration and Enterprise Architecture In Oslo, Norway: A Trip Report
    Specifically I was asked to present our latest findings on social collaboration and enterprise architecture , two of my favorite topics as many of you know. We also brought our Enterprise 2.0 have had a broader impact this far north and I was gratified that I was able to get a pretty detailed picture as you'll see. The State of Social Collaboration & Enterprise 2.0 My keynote on the second day was less than an hour and I had a lot to share. I spent the early part of this week in Oslo, Norway, a guest of Bouvet and the Norwegian Computer Society, there to help them drive forward some discussions on next-generation subjects in IT and business.
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Saturday, September 26, 2009
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