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8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things
It is "a platform-agnostic system which can connect almost any networked object to the wider world." More recently, Google launched an API for PowerMeter , which allows device manufacturers to create PowerMeter-compatible devices. The world's second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 - which gave us an idea.
ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Notifo Is A Simple Mobile Notifications Platform For Anything
While it’s currently only available as an iPhone app, the plan is to eventually roll out to all the major mobile platforms, starting with Android and BlackBerry soon. And while the current app may seem pretty barebones, the power resides underneath; it’s a platform. Notifo’s API makes it very, very simple for any site to insert a few lines of code in their site and offer Push Notifications I’m hopelessly addicted to Push Notifications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the system is flawed , in that the more notifications you get, the worse the experience
TechCrunch - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Motally Nabs Nielsen Exec John Forese To Lead Mobile Analytics Startup
The startup just launched an analytics platform for mobile game developers, rolled out an extension of their mobile analytics to include content developed on Apple’s iPad and released a flexible API. Currently, Motally supports analytics for applications on the iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry platforms as well as the mobile web. Mobile analytics startup Motally is bringing in a seasoned analytics executive, John Forese, as the startup’s new CEO. Forese was previously Nielsen Mobile’s Senior Vice President of Product Management.
TechCrunch - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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  • Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
    With MySpace I'm able to use my account to sign into other sites via OpenID, share my activity using Activity Streams, build applications using OpenSocial, interact with their APIs using OAuth and access APIs that not only allow the creation of new content within MySpace's garden but also extract data from it. Instead, like Microsoft they have willfully ignored many industry efforts in favor of their own proprietary development platforms. A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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  • Twitter: A Marketer's Duct Tape
    Twitter's design is simple, modular, scalable and cross-platform. 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. It is only a matter of time before Google or Microsoft buys Twitter and integrates the functionality into their platform, and tweeting becomes part of how every company communicates and markets. Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible , easily available, and cheap. Twitter shares all
    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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  • 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 The Data Store is a collection of high quality data sets which are curated by the Guardian and hosted on Google Docs. Sponsor
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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  • Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps
    are "A platform beats an application every time" and "All the smart people don't work for you." 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 Companies that take those bits of wisdom to heart find ways to
    OReilly Radar - Monday, December 14, 2009
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  • Facebook as a Learning Platform
    He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and respectable way to feel connected to friends, get updated on existing friends, find new people, build relationships and express identities." When you look at the core functions of Facebook - it fits pretty well as the basis for a learning platform. Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook,
    eLearning Technology - Monday, October 15, 2007
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  • PhoneGap, the Mobile Platform Democratizer
    Phonegap is an opensource development framework for mobile platforms. Though the apps are created with web technologies PhoneGap provides access to the phone's client APIs and run in Objective-C . Developers will be able to upload their HTML and JavaScript and get back a URL for a tested, compiled app for each platform. It allows developers to build native apps in HTML and JavaScript. Currently PhoneGap works for the iPhone and Android, but Blackberry and other OSs are on the way.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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  • Google's Sneaky Launch of Latitude's Location-Sharing API
    These have generated a lot of press, but I haven't seen much discussion about the first sighting of the Latitude API. On These are just the first signs of Google's Latitude API. This is not going to be the end all be all of the Latitude API. I theorize that we will 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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  • Calling All Socially-Minded Techies; Kiva Launches API Platform
    Kiva.org , the non-profit people-to-people microlending organization, is rolling out an open-source API platform for techies interested in building tools and new applications for the microfinance/microlending community. Here’s a list of the current APIs . Some examples of data developers can access through the API include: Kiva wants ‘ build.kiva.org’ to become a hub for socially-minded developers who want a make a difference in the world (and create cool applications). Kiva advises that they are going to add more.
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • Wolfram|Alpha API to be released later today
    We've just been told that the public API for Wolfram Alpha will be made available later today. The API documentation will be available at [link] . It's hard to write much about an API that hasn't appeared yet, but let me tell you why I think it's important. An API minimizes the impedance mismatch: you As of noon, PDT, that page only redirects to the Alpha home page, but they've promised it will be available sometime this afternoon. It's Lots of writers have compared Alpha to Google, but I think that's a mistake.
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, October 15, 2009
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