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MySpace Employees Speak Their Mind. Lots Of Yelling Going On, Apparently.
You see a lot of people going into empty conference room and talking on their cell phones or people “going to grab coffee” by themselves and chatting on the phone walking down the street. the whole company was segmented into horizontal layers so there was an operations group, a database group, an api group, a front-end group, a search group, a datawarehouse group, etc. We’ve had lots of emails from MySpace employees with their response to our most recent post about the crumbling mid level management structure . “If you’re a MySpace employee and feel differently, please contact us anonymously,” we said.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Ev Williams: Twitter’s First Principle, “Be A Force For Good”
Interestingly enough, Twitter saw its first burst of popularity three years ago at this very conference.
Having an open API makes it easier to make apps that will spam users. We’re here at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas where Twitter co-founder Evan Williams doing a keynote Q&A with Umair Haque. Williams may use the time to talk a bit about Twitter’s upcoming ad platform .
TechCrunch
- Monday, March 15, 2010
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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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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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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
Federated applications, atomized content and functionality, 3rd party product ecosystems through open APIs, and much more are required to establish a strong and resilient network effect which fends off competitors that are themselves bringing these potent new competencies to bear. In fact, one of the things we emphasize over and over again in our conference workshops and in Web 2.0 A quick search of the job aggregator SimplyHired tells the tale: Nearly a thousand Web designer positions are available while only 36 OpenSocial and 40 open API positions are open, for example.
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NYTimes Exposes 2.8 Million Articles in New API
The New York Times did just that this afternoon when it announced that it has released a new Application Programming Interface (API) offering every article the paper has written since 1981, 2.8 The API includes 28 searchable fields and updated content every hour.
A quality API could throw the doors wide open to a future where "newspapers" are important again.
What do you do when your industry is shifting under your feet? Taking the lead with radical steps is one strategy.
ReadWriteWeb
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Personal Democracy Forum conference: initial themes
"So what's this conference you're going to?" some know what an API was and a few even understood the concept of
mash-ups, thousand people signed up for the conference (leading, of course, to
more As a conference with a contemporary, tech-oriented bent, PDF ripples
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braced braced for an explanation that usually took me more than ten minutes.
Ultimately,
OReilly Radar
- Monday, June 29, 2009
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Google Sites Get Liberated By New API
Today that changes, as Google introduces its new Sites API.
The new API is part of Google’s recently launched Data Liberation Front , which consists of a team at Google with the “singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products”. But there’s plenty you can do with the new API beyond just data export.
For the last 18 months Google Sites has given businesses a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making for an easy way to help coordinate efforts internally and to also build consumer facing sites.
TechCrunch
- Thursday, September 24, 2009
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PayPal X: A Complete List Of Adaptive Payments APIs
We’re at PayPal’s much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company’s first dedicated developer conference. PayPal, which reported strong earnings recently, is hoping to engage developers in producing applications on top of PayPal’s newly released API. Here’s a comprehensive list of the Adaptive Payments APIs that PayPal is releasing today. eBay’s CEO John Donahoe said this morning that PayPal is set to be bigger than eBay in the near future, forecasting the payment company’s continued growth and dominance in the space. We
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Google Analytics API Now In Public Beta, Desktop Reporting Takes Stats Offline
Moments ago, Google released the public beta version of the Google Analytics API after running a private beta program with hundreds of developers for about a year.
When Google announced a great deal of updates to Google Analytics last October, the company already said the API was ‘coming soon’, but obviously it took them another 6 months to effectively start rolling out.
With the Google By combining a wide variety of metrics and dimensions, an API-based client application can deliver custom reports, more refined data or new visualizations that in turn provide new ways to analyze the performance of websites and web applications.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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Web 2.0 Software Models Evolve as the Conference Season Begins in Earnest
I'm here in New York City this morning at the start of the AjaxWorld Conference and Expo which I'm the technical chair for this year. I'll be blogging as much as I can about what's happening here -- and indeed on what seems to be a nonstop series of conferences coming up -- on this blog, on the Web 2.0 Even more intriguing, we are seeing the emergence of genuine open Web component models such as what NetVibes We expect it will be a exciting event that will bring the very latest developments in Rich User Experiences. Journal , as well as on ZDNet .
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Gowalla Rolls Out API
Foursquare released its API in November . And now Gowalla will has released its API today.
In a blog post announcing the API, Gowalla encourages developers to build out features that incolve location and the community, highlighting the recent addition of user-curated trips. Gowalla also suggested several uses of the API including an Indiana Jones Map (convert your road trip into an animated, epic adventure); As location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms. Like Twitter,
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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