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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Boulder, Part 2
Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and fueled by leaders and social hubs such as Micah Baldwin , Tech Stars mentor, #followfriday creator and now chief community caretaker at Graphic.ly of Digital X, and Robert Reich, the founder of Boulder/Denver Tech Meet-up, Boulder's startup community is pumping, even in the midst of recession. Boulder is the home of Blue Mountain cards , one of the first successful online greeting cards websites. Eric Marcoullier , co-founder of Gnip , launched two years ago with the unique idea of providing data collection and analysis of
ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8
The huge social network was once private by default, then made controversial changes in December that pushed hundreds of millions of users toward publishing their information in public and now appears aimed to complete the about-face at its F8 developer conference by offering up public user data in a huge river that outside parties can consume, analyze and build on top of. was all about creating new technologies that made it easy for everyday people to publish their thoughts, social connections and activities, then the next stage of innovation online may be services like recommendations,
ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Mashery : API management services | You don't need to be a programmer or hire one - no language to learn, no plug-ins, no API. Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery's expertise. At the "Business of APIs" conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business decision. Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too.
ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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  • Twitter: A Marketer's Duct Tape
    As social animals, we humans are addicted to communication and understanding how our social group is acting and thinking. In business this is very practical — and in social settings, it is very entertaining. Second, 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. Twitter shares all these attributes.
    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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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
    "Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social media. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 27, 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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  • Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
    quot; And as we'll see, the Web is driving the evolution of a major new generation of online distribution models. Why Adopting New Distribution Models Is Crucial As an example of this, I've been tracking some of the latest discussions around the hot topic du jour in the Web world: Social networking applications. Specifically, it's been interesting to watch the surprisingly low level of industry attention around the titanic competition brewing between social networking application formats from Web giants Facebook and Google. The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure.
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Sunday, August 24, 2008
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  • Kiva: A Cautionary Tale for Social Entrepreneurs?
    For the past few years, Kiva, the person-to-person microlending site , has been held up as something of a poster child for social entrepreneurship. Kiva has built API s so that anyone can create a mashup with its data. And in just the past few weeks, the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship blogosphere has lit up with debate over what some have called Kiva's misleading marketing. The site lets users choose an entrepreneur in a developing country and make a loan to them. This ability to personally help someone escape poverty has obvious appeal.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, October 19, 2009
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  • Times Open: Developers Gather to Discuss The New York Times APIs and more
    We heralded the launch of the program , covered the first available API , and marveled at the access to content the APIs have begun to provide. Now the Times has taken another momentous step forward: bringing developers together for Times Open , the publication's inaugural API seminar. They want to create a community of hackers around their APIs, and invite community feedback to drive future innovation. Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Times Open strategy, the program that focuses on making the data of The New York Times more accessible to the developer community.
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, February 23, 2009
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  • What Are People Reading in The New York Times? Ask the TimesPeople API
    That's why were excited to hear that the Times' API team has announced the release of its latest API, TimesPeople , which provides developers with access to data on registered NYTimes.com TimesPeople readers ' sharing and reading habits. The API offers access to details on particular NYTimes.com readers and their network, including the reader's TimesPeople profile information, recommendations, comments, ratings, and profiles and actions for the TimesPeople that the reader is following. When it comes to venerable publications, few hold as much esteem as The New York Times - and few have as much access to interesting user data.
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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  • Social Media Goals
    expo (part of the time with fellow miscreant Jay Cross ), and it led me to think a bit more about social media tools and approaches.  We were prompted to visit Blue Kiwi , which is probably the leading European social media platform.  Vignette , on the other hand, started as a CMS for KM, but then added social media around it.  I spent yesterday touring the Web 2.0 After touring the floor, having lunch, and touring the floor some more before the keynotes, my reflections have to do with hybrids and implementation.
    Learnlets - Thursday, April 2, 2009
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  • How Twitter and Crowdsourcing Are Reshaping Recruiting
    As social media is used inside the company to increase collaboration, communication and innovation, it's become important for recruiters to locate prospective employees who are also users of social media. The final job description spoke to the traits of the social media revolution we are all experiencing: humor, collaboration and authenticity. For instance, Why don't more companies use Twitter to hire the right job candidates? Most companies still think of Twitter as a marketing and communication tool.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 25, 2009
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