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OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web
Until now, anybody who wanted to implement real-time ads from OneRiot 's RiotWise network had to get these ads through OneRiot's API and create a customized user interface around these ads. Some of the services that currently use OneRiot's ads through the company's API include Digsby , ÜberTwitter and a number of real-time search engines.
While we can't verify this data, it This severely limited OneRiot's appeal for website owner who wanted to experiment with real-time ads on their sites and services but were looking for a plug and play solution. Today, OneRiot is launching
ReadWriteWeb
- Friday, March 19, 2010
OneRiot Rolls Out Realtime Ad Unit That Refreshes To Match Trending Topics
Last year, OneRiot ventured into the advertising world with RiotWise, an ad format which places content in an emphasized position in their realtime feed. The search engine also launched a pilot program of RiotWise Trending Ads, a stream of ads that correspond to trending topics as they emerge across the social web, that has since been integrated into the search engine’s API. The ability to update in realtime Today, the realtime search startup is improving upon its advertising product by offering Trending Ad unit that automatically updates in realtime corresponding to the the most popular trending topics at the time.
TechCrunch
- Friday, March 19, 2010
The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter
The researchers also used the Twitter API to gather additional information about a user's social links and tweets.
However, the most retweeted users tended to be content aggregation services like TwitterTips, TweetMeme, and, interestingly enough, they counted the tech blog Mashable as an aggregation service, too. Meanwhile, those users with the most "mentions" - not a direct retweet including the original content of someone else's tweet, but just a casual 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.
ReadWriteWeb
- Friday, March 19, 2010
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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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How NPR is Embracing Open Source and Open APIs
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, National Public Radio is interested in turning it into a resource for people to use in new and novel ways as well. Daniel Jacobson is in charge making that content available to developers and end users in a wide variety of formats, Daniel will talk about how the project is going at OSCON , the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Here's a preview of what he'll
OReilly Radar
- Thursday, July 16, 2009
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The Guardian Launches Free Content API - But You Get To Build Its Ad Network
The Guardian newspaper in the UK has today launched a free, open API which will carry all the content the newspaper produces in print and online, going back to 1999. The “Open Platform” will allow allow partners to reuse Guardian.co.uk content and data for free, in a clear move to extend the paper’s reach for its content and brand. But the payback for all this free content It helps that the paper is owned and run by a charitable trust which does not have shareholders who would normally have a heart attack at giving away the family jewels.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, March 10, 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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Newspaper as a Platform: Guardian Launches API
The Guardian just launched a new API which will allow third-party developers to access and reuse the Guardian's content database in their own applications. The new API is part of the Guardian's new Open Platform , which, as of today, consists of the API and a Data Store , but the Guardian also announced that it plans to offer more services in the near future. This move by the Guardian comes The Data Store is a collection of high quality data sets which are curated by the Guardian and hosted on Google Docs.
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ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, March 10, 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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Mashery: Untold Secrets Behind Managing an API
When publishing an API, there are two preparatory steps to take before jumping into implementation. These developers will give you the kind of feedback you need so that you can rapidly refine your API. Iterating quickly and listening to users of your API will help you build a healthy user community and create evangelists.
Editor's note: this is a "Sponsor Post" by one of our long-term sponsors. These posts are clearly labeled as such, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers.
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, February 2, 2009
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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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Google Analytics Gets an API
Google Analytics , Google's tool for generating detailed visitor stats for web sites, just launched an API, which will finally allow developers to create desktop and online tools that can use and mash up data from Google Analytics with other data on the Internet. This API will also allow developers to create mobile interfaces for Google Analytics for Android or the iPhone, for example.
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Developers who are already familiar with other Google APIs should feel right at home with the Google Analytics API , as it uses the same protocol as Google Calendar, Finance,
ReadWriteWeb
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps
The recent introduction of the new Apple iPad has stirred the discussion over the future of web content and application runtime formats, and shone light onto the political and business battles emerging between Apple , Adobe and Google . My first company (Allaire) was born during the advent of the Web, with the idea that a browser and HTML could form the basis for creating content-rich, interactive software applications, ones that didn’t require native code and could be platform and operating system independent. Editor’s note : This is a guest post written by Jeremy Allaire , founder and CEO of Brightcove .
TechCrunch
- Friday, February 5, 2010
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