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Five Ways For Twitter's Advertising to Not Suck
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 work it into their apps. Twitter is apparently due to bring an end to years of speculation about its money -earning plans by announcing an advertising platform today. 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
Fast Company
- Monday, March 15, 2010
Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8
Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared with large partners and select small developers building the famous Twitter ecosystem of 3rd party applications around the web. We're hearing that there will be no launch partners in the announcement, but the imagination runs wild thinking about all the mashup possibilities. API Rate Change Could Lead Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. A Facebook representative did not offer a denial, saying
ReadWriteWeb
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
An Ecosystem Is Born: Animoto Opens Up API
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 is Animoto Quickstart. The API essentially allows any website to tap into Animoto’s video creation flow. 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 adding an iPhone app and the ability to incorporate
TechCrunch
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
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How NPR is Embracing Open Source and Open APIs
Daniel Jacobson is in charge making that content available to developers and end users in a wide variety of formats, and has been doing so using an Open API that NPR developed specifically for that purpose. So that includes the website, podcasts, API, mobile sites, HD radios, anything that has some sort of visual component to it. Daniel Jacobson: I manage the application 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,
OReilly Radar
- Thursday, July 16, 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 just about a 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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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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Former Googler Sanjeev Agrawal To Lead Just-Funded Mobile Search Startup Aloqa
million in Series A funding from multiple angel investors and VC firm Wellington Partners .
Aloqa also provides an API for easy development of location-based services, especially for proactive and community oriented applications. Tags: Company & Product Profiles aloqa wellington partner Today’s a big day for Aloqa , a fledgling mobile search and information services company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The startup will be announcing at Venturebeat’s MobileBeat 2009 conference that they have just raised $1.5
TechCrunch
- Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Mashery: APIs the Key to a Thriving Cloud
But what many observers miss is that, while cloud computing has arrived, only through APIs will its full business potential be realized.
Without APIs, There Is No Cloud Computing
In contrast, cloud computing draws its strength from its connections to the outside world, through APIs. 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
- Thursday, February 26, 2009
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PayPal Partners With FundRazr And Lottay To Test New Adaptive Payments API
Recently, PayPal announced its flexible payments API, called Adaptive Payments (which we scooped ) gives developers full access to PayPal’s features, allowing them a lot more freedom in building applications, which includes the ability to accept and distribute payments.
PayPal is timing the official availability of these APIs with its PayPal X Innovate 2009 conference in November. According to PayPal, developer attendees will receive exclusive access to the new APIs that won’t be available to non-attendees until 2010. And PayPal will be unveiling its platform
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, September 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 is that while 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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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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Payvment Enables Retail Storefronts On Facebook Via PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API
In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Flexible Payments API, PayPal recently announced its version of the API, called Adaptive Payments (which we scooped over the summer). PayPal’s API gives developers full access to PayPal’s features, allowing them a lot more freedom in building applications, which includes the ability to accept and distribute payments. Over Payvment , which powers online shopping cart technologies and uses PayPal as a payment mechanism, is launching a potentially revolutionary new Facebook app that would let anyone set up a retail storefront on Facebook.
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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