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Andreessen Horowitz-backed Burbn bets location is more than a check-in
Venture Beat &bull 5 Hours Ago
Can the world handle yet another location-based social network? Andreessen-Horowitz is betting it can, after investing $500,000 with Baseline Ventures into Burbn. It's a stealth location-sharing project from a well-connected former Googler Kevin Systrom, who has had stints at several… Full Story »
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Celebrate Your Developers: a Lesson From Mobypicture
Programmable Web &bull Yesterday
If you're looking to run a successful developer program, you should probably pay attention to Mathys van Abbe. He's the founder of Mobypicture, which has just celebrated its 500th developer (our Mobypicture API profile). Mobypicture isn't exactly a household name… Full Story »
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Logitech QuickCam Pro Web Cam for Notebooks
sponsored listing • Shopping.comEnjoy clear images in perfect detail with the QuickCam Pro for Notebooks webcam from Logitech. This webcam uses a 2 megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss lens for premium automatic focus....Full Story »
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Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads
Venture Beat &bull Yesterday
Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app. With iPhone and iPod Touch sales estimated to be around 80 million, co-founder Jake Mintz says this means the company's apps are on more than… Full Story »
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Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer - 10 live demos
Venture Beat &bull Mar 8, 2010
A new Google Labs project merges two breakthroughs into one. Public Data Explorer brings together more than a dozen databases - health statistics, population numbers, employment figures - with a browser-based technology that lets researchers and presenters create charts that move. Google's motion charts show trends in two ways not possible with motionless plots. First, the motion feature removes the requirement to use a chart's X axis to represent time.… Full Story »
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Is Your Flight Going to be Late? Get a Prediction From the New FlightCaster API
Programmable Web &bull Mar 8, 2010
Have you had to pick someone up from the airport only to end-up doing several laps of the airport because the flight was late? This sort of setback due to arrival delays is one of those modern day inconveniences that… Full Story »
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- iphone
- Amazon.com
- JSON
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Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 Web Cam
sponsored listing • Shopping.comWith simple setup and one-touch calling, the Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 makes it easier than ever to see and hear your friends and family over the Internet. It has been optimized for Windows Live⢠Messenger, a simple instant messaging program that lets you send audio and video messages over the Web...Full Story »
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5 New APIs: Google, Guardian, Ericsson, and CorpWatch
Programmable Web &bull Mar 7, 2010
Once again this week we had a variety of new APIs added to our API directory. Some notable new entries include an API for a corporation accountability research service, mobile identification API, a mobile network lookup service API, Google's new power consumption… Full Story »
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Etacts: OAuth for Gmail is live and we're using it
Venture Beat &bull Mar 7, 2010
It looks like Google is making things a little easier and more for third-party services that want to access your email account. Email networking startup Etacts says it's the first service to use a new API (application programming interface) giving… Full Story »
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Week in review: The argument for software patents, Google's PowerMeter API
Venture Beat &bull Mar 7, 2010
Here's our rundown of the week's business and tech news. In favor of software patents - Patents are getting a lot of criticism these days, but Fair Software's Alain Reynaud argues that they are worth preserving, just a little flawed. Full Story »
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Groovy Goodness: Invoke Methods Dynamically
Dzone &bull Mar 6, 2010
In Groovy we can invoke a method just like in Java: we simply type the name of the method in our code. But what if we want to invoke a method name, but we don't know the name yet when… Full Story »
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Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 Web Cam
sponsored listing • Shopping.comWith Microsoft Life Cam VX-3000 and Windows Live Messenger and you can take instant messaging with friends and family to a new level of sight and sound....Full Story »
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SphinxConnector.NET 1.3 released
DotNetKickts &bull Mar 6, 2010
The latest version of SphinxConnector.NET, a .NET client API for the Sphinx full-text search engine, has been released. SphinxConnector.NET supports Sphinx 0.9.8, 0.9.9 and the upcoming 1.10.1. Full Story »
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Vivek Kundra Outlines Ambitious Government Plans for I.T.
FastCompany: Technology &bull Mar 5, 2010
The University of Washington was the place to be yesterday. The most pertinent point that Kundra made in his address yesterday was the difference in attitudes to technology projects between publicly-funded projects and those in the private sector. While companies… Full Story »
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Google Wave Tutorial (with the new Robot API V2)
Dzone &bull Mar 5, 2010
Describes the creation of Google Wave robots based on the new robots API V2. Full Story »
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Silverlight 4: How to work with Notification API?
DotNetKickts &bull Mar 5, 2010
Silverlight Notification API is a new feature introduced in Silverlight 4 Beta 1. If you are developing your application using Silverlight & want to show some notification message like Outlook to the user, then you can use this. Remember that,… Full Story »
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Netty 3.2.0.BETA1 released!
Dzone &bull Mar 5, 2010
Netty 3.2.0.BETA1, the first beta release in 3.2 branch, has been released after long awaits. It contains many new features and improvements such as Web Sockets support, zero-copy file transfer, more user-friendly API, and better performance. Full Story »
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Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF Web Cam
sponsored listing • Shopping.comLogitech QuickCam Orbit AF uses a motorized lens and intelligent face-tracking to keep you in the picture. Featuring Autofocus with Carl Zeiss optics, the QuickCam Orbit AF allows you to capture every detail and keep things sharp - even in the most extreme close-ups....Full Story »
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Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation
Cnet News &bull Mar 4, 2010
In an update to the development build of Chrome today, Google introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google Chrome dev 5.0.342.1 comes with the geolocation API that Mozilla has supported… Full Story »
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Google opens PowerMeter API - and the field for energy efficiency apps
Venture Beat &bull Mar 4, 2010
Google announced today that it has released the application programming interface (the API) for Google PowerMeter, the tool it launched last year to tell users how much energy they are using in real time, and, more importantly, what it is costing them. The decision gives what was a vaguely informative service… Full Story »
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Google opens PowerMeter to energy monitors
Cnet News &bull Mar 3, 2010
Google on Wednesday released the API for its PowerMeter energy-monitoring Web application, a move that could let people get detailed home energy data without the need for a smart meter. By making the PowerMeter application programming interface available to outsiders,… Full Story »
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App creators: From superstars to serfs
CNN Money Technology &bull Mar 2, 2010
Once upon a time, app developers were the toast of the tech world. Now that there are 140,000 apps in Appleas app store and Twitteras open API has spawned 50,000 applications, have the app programmers lost their cachet? The post… Full Story »
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- Buddy Media
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Sorenson Media Rolls API
Socal Tech &bull Mar 2, 2010
San Diego-based Sorenson Media, which develops video encoding software and a related content delivery network, said today that it has released a new application programming interface (API). According to Sorenson Media, the new Sorenson 360 API helps developers to integrate… Full Story »
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Door closes on social mapping startup Platial
Venture Beat &bull Mar 1, 2010
Platial, a social mapping startup looking to make it big in that segment, has decided to call it quits. The company announced its plans to shut down in a blog post on Saturday. The site may go offline as soon… Full Story »
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