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Informal Learning Flow is a content hub started by Jay Cross that collects and organizes the best information on the web around informal learning. We hope this will help you find good stuff, learn and stay current. |
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Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature
Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the experience surrounding it.
He has been a key contributor and thought leader in key areas of interoperability and information design, including his leadership in bringing XML to the world. He mentioned his desire to take the open APIs of Android and expose some of the information in a more portable way, for example to transfer a call log from one phone to another. The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun.
ReadWriteWeb
- Friday, March 19, 2010
Crocodoc Sets Its Sights On Adobe Acrobat With New Update
Aside from the ability to save to PDF, the new version includes a freehand pen tool, a tool to convert any website to PDF (which you can then add notes to), and a new API. Damico says that in the long term, Crocodoc is hoping to “do to Acrobat what Gmail did to Outlook” by taking a widely used desktop application and bringing it online.
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...Tags: Last month we wrote about Crocodoc , a new Y Combinator-funded company that makes it very easy to upload a text document or PowerPoint deck and mark it up online to share with your colleagues.
TechCrunch
- Friday, March 19, 2010
Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley
If they want to build out an API and create mobile applications for their app, they are in the right place to do it. We have reached out for comment on this question and will update this post as more information becomes available. News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A startup Formspring.me had raised some $2.5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis.
ReadWriteWeb
- Friday, March 19, 2010
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Twitter: A Marketer's Duct Tape
As Chris pointed out on his blog , the range of applications is spectacular, from providing truly instant online commentary for any off-line event, to the visualization of Super Bowl tweets developed by the New York Times , to Pepsi's integration of Twitter with geographic information at the spectacularly popular South by Southwest festival, to Whole Foods tweeting recipes . 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.
Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible , easily available, and cheap.
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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New Technology Supporting Informal Learning
This work, in turn, is suggesting and supporting the model of learning described in the first section, that of a course network supporting and informing an ever-shifting set of course episodes. This is the basis for the models and strategies that characterize what has come to be called informal learning. (Cross, Yendluri, 2003) What developed instead were random, individualized and Abstract We often talk about games, simulations and other events in learning, but these technologies support only episodic learning. Equally important are those technologies that provide a context for
Half an Hour
- Saturday, April 25, 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.
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. 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.
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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Informal learning hot list for February 2009
It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. Hot List on Informal Learning
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Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It’s a time-saver, time is money, and most of us could use more of it.
Internet Time
- Tuesday, March 3, 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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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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Apigee is Analytics for APIs
APIs have become a critical part of the Web, especially if you're a developer. If you want to tap into some of the most useful sites out there, then an API is your best bet. But for businesses, managing a popular API can be a huge headache. For those consuming APIs, you really have very little way to monitor But what if there was a simple service to monitor API requests and serve up good analytics? That service is Apigee , a freemium tool which puts data on API usage in your hands.
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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The Online Payment Wars Continue: PayPal Officially Announces Flexible API
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) . Basically the new API is designed to give developers full access to PayPal’s features, allowing them a lot more freedom in building applications which include the ability to accept and distribute payments. Thompson says 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.
TechCrunch
- Thursday, July 23, 2009
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