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The Meaning & Future of Blippy, the Credit Card Data Social Network
That might sound frighteningly irresponsible, but serial entrepreneur Phil Kaplan says his new social network Blippy does that and represents the way of the future. Here are seven things you probably don't know about Blippy, a very far-out social network.
It's hard to believe but he says he'll leave that kind of thing up to third parties using the Blippy API if they want to. Would you broadcast information about your credit card transactions publicly on the Internet? I thought he was crazy - until I sat down and talked with him today at SXSW.
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, March 15, 2010
Ev Williams: Twitter’s First Principle, “Be A Force For Good”
UH: So it’s a platform to juice up site’s networks and virility. We think of it as an information network — different from a social network. 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
Five Ways For Twitter's Advertising to Not Suck
Here's our guess, before the news presumably hits this afternoon, on how Twitter Ads should work. Twitter Ads Must Not Intrude One of the joys of using Twitter compared to other social networking/life-casting services (and here I'm really imagining the ocular-assault of a typical MySpace page) is its absolute simplicity. We can guess that Twitter's ad plans are centered on its website, but in order to reach the maximum audience (and hence make more money from advertising partners) it would be smart if the ad system was connected to Twitter's API so that third party developers could
Fast Company
- Monday, March 15, 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.
In this sense it is an incredibly "democratic" medium — with all the control at the ends of the network. Our Diamond Fellow David Reed wrote in the Harvard Business Review many years ago about the power of self-forming networks 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
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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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects
The adoption of Amazon's Web services is currently driving more network activity than everything Amazon does through their traditional Web sites. era: that the ultimate end-game generally boils down whoever has the deepest and most potent network effect , which are more pronounced when you're data and software is being used from many other Web apps, instead of just your own. The graph below clearly shows that Amazon has the hockey stick growth that generally signifies a powerful, deep seated uptake by 3rd party platform users. A few days ago Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr released a graph ( Figure 1 below ) showing the growth of the bandwidth used by their global Web sites versus the bandwidth being consumed by their Web services.
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Google's Sneaky Launch of Latitude's Location-Sharing API
The other updates your GTalk status for sharing your location to your IM network. 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= 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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Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API
It looks like PayPal is rolling out a more flexible payments API called Adaptive Payments. Basically the 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.
Very similar to Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service (FPS), the Adaptive Payments API handles payments between a sender of a payment and one or more receivers of the payment. We’ve obtained a confidential document, which is embedded below, explaining the details of the new system.
TechCrunch
- Monday, July 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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10 Twitter Lists You Should Follow
Let's operate under the assumption that Twitter's own implementation of lists will be overshadowed by more useful implementations of the lists API. Tags: Social Network Twitter Lists have rolled out to a majority of users on the site now and the uptake has been remarkable. Things will get truly interesting when lists can by turned into columns in 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic (one small client says it's shipped list support already and Tweetdeck says it's coming soon ), when you can share items with particular lists exclusively (like you can on Facebook) and when
ReadWriteWeb
- Friday, October 30, 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. But the payback for all this free content is that while apps developers can use the platform for “commercial” use, they are still going to end up building an ad network for The Guardian based on the API. Crunch Network : CrunchBase 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.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects
The adoption of Amazon's Web services is currently driving more network activity than everything Amazon does through their traditional Web sites. era: that the ultimate end-game generally boils down whoever has the deepest and most potent network effect , which are more pronounced when you're data and software is being used from many other Web apps, instead of just your own. The graph below clearly shows that Amazon has the hockey stick growth that generally signifies a powerful, deep seated uptake by 3rd party platform users. A few days ago Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr released a graph ( Figure 1 below ) showing the growth of the bandwidth used by their global Web sites versus the bandwidth being consumed by their Web services.
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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
This ranges from appreciating why plain old HTTP is so good at underpinning the Web to more sophisticated topics like modern application architecture, the latest in online user experiences, next generation computing models (grid/cloud/utility/SaaS/PaaS), cost-effective scalability , user identity, network effects , Jakob's Law , analytics, operations, user community, as well as the many compelling new distribution models that are nearly mandatory in the first release of most products. This extensive set of competencies is what's required nowadays to deliver a credible online product
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