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Small Business Web Directory Launches at SXSW
Launched at last year's SXSW, the small business web is a group of software as a service companies that have joined forces to offer cheaper services to clients. Companies like Batch Blue Software , Freshbooks , Mailchimp , Shoeboxed and Outright have been integrating APIs in order to help businesses flourish. Upon first glance we were skeptical. Generally when someone says they're launching a business directory it's an SEO play with little value to users.
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
Over the course of the day, you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford, Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus.
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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An Ecosystem Is Born: Animoto Opens Up API
What makes the videos cool is the company’s technology that renders the pictures so they’re in-step with the music you’ve chosen, adding nice transition effects. This morning, Animoto is opening up its API, allowing partners to now incorporate Animoto’s compelling technologies into independent sites The first API that being rolled out for the Animoto Partner Platform We’re big fans of Animoto, a website that lets you easily create photo and video slideshows matched to music. The site is constantly innovating its nifty product, most recently
TechCrunch - 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. Third, and perhaps most importantly, it is very easy for people to join, and to self-organize around topics, companies, individuals, and events. There are many tools that can help you track how people are talking about your 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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  • Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps
    Companies that take those bits of wisdom to heart find ways to engage developer communities to extend their products--and the result can be creative, surprising new applications that would never have been developed from within. 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. 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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  • 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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  • Wine.com Uncorks Its API
    Wine.com, a popular wine retailer with a fantastic domain name, is releasing its API for third-party developers to create and enhance wine applications connecting to the site’s e-commerce and wine database platform. The API will offer access to Wine.com’s “Wine Basics” content, which includes information about the world’s major wine growing regions and grape varietals. Wine.com’s database has detailed information on over 40,000 wines, including labels, wine maker notes, professional ratings, customer reviews, geographical information, flavor profiles and more.
    TechCrunch - Saturday, September 26, 2009
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  • Burning Man Gets an API (and a Whole Lot More)
    An API! However, since it is only around for a week each year (and is always in a new location) there is not time (or profit) for commercial companies to map it. 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. SMS! Foursquare!
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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  • Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms
    Much has been written lately about the rise of the API . Offering Offering a programming interface to an online service is now standard practice amongst this generation of web companies. Through APIs, we get to enjoy a range of innovative Twitter clients, wide availability on major platforms should be as much of a availability of maps and location information, custom search engines, and more. However, delivering superior user experience
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, December 29, 2008
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  • The Online Payment Wars Continue: PayPal Officially Announces Flexible API
    While Ebay’s Q2 earnings yesterday showed that its marketplace business was slow, the company’s revenue was boosted by continued growth in its online payments business, including PayPal and BillMeLater. On the heels of this good news, today PayPal is officially announcing the launch of its flexible payments API, called Adaptive Payments (which we scooped a few weeks ago here) . Both businesses saw 11 % growth in revenue in the quarter, compared to a year ago, and saw a 20% increase in registered accounts from last year, with 75.4 million accounts.
    TechCrunch - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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  • Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API
    Social micro-payments enabler Tipjoy is releasing an API today that allows charities but also companies and individuals to handle relatively small payments from within their applications and spread the word through Twitter . With the Twitter Payments API, developers now have an easy way to integrate payment handling into third-party Twitter applications and potentially benefit from the network effect for all the people who use their service. This opens up a lot of opportunities for application developers who might benefit from small transactions, from e-commerce services selling content, subscriptions, etc.
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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  • The Unofficial Google Text-To-Speech API
    There’s no official API for the text-to-speech service. Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors ...Tags: Tags: Company & Product Profiles googl Last month Google unveiled enhancements to Google Translate. Among the new features was a simple text-to-speech function.
    TechCrunch - Monday, December 14, 2009
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