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These are news items I've curated in my Google Reader, Twitter and bookmarking using Pinboard. Sometimes I add a little commentary to each post.

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AssureSign Version 4.5 Production Release

www.assuresign.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: This release does not contain any large interface changes. Initial internal changes are being made to allow for on-premise installations to use certain enterprise grade Single Sign On (SSO) mechanisms. Note that a realtime view of system status is available at http://status. assuresign.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack

Convo API: Communication Gets The Job Done

blog.programmableweb.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: In order to get a campaign or project off the ground quickly and efficiently, careful management of the creative and technical process is essential in order to avoid big mistakes and missed deadlines. And, of course, the very thing that holds it all together is clear communication. That’s where an app like Convo is really handy – it’s a cloud-based, interactive workspace for business, where teams can collaborate and have real-time conversations. Convo’s API makes it possible for this functionality to be integrated with other applications.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Messaging

F.C.C. Advances Plan for Faster In-Flight Wi-Fi

bits.blogs.nytimes.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed auctioning off the rights to use newly available airwaves to provide better in-flight Wi-Fi connections, as the government agency seeks to improve the speed and lower the cost of Internet service on commercial flights. The commission’s proposal is the first step toward a goal that it is likely to take a couple of years, at least, to reach: providing in-flight Internet service that can match or exceed the capabilities that most Americans have at home or can find in coffee shops.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack

Free community accounts on the ScraperWiki Beta

blog.scraperwiki.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: We’ve been teasing and tempting you with blog posts about the first few tools on the new ScraperWiki Beta for a while now. It’s time to let you try them out first-hand. As of right now, the new ScraperWiki Beta is open for you, your aunt, anyone, to sign up for a free community account: Check out beta. scraperwiki. com. We’re really excited. Not only does this mean all of our Classic Premium Account holders, and our new private beta applicants, have been settled into the new platform, but now regular Classic users get to try the new ScraperWiki out, for free. The new ScraperWiki beta is a little rough around the edges, but it can already do everything ScraperWiki Classic did, and more. As we (and you!... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Harvesting, Scraping, Story

GitHub Activity Timeline Widget (Social Networks)

codecanyon.net on 05/10/2013

Excerpt:... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Code, GitHub, Widgets

iOS and Android Design Guidelines Cheat Sheet

kinveyposts.wordpress.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: When making an app, following your platform’s design guidelines is a tried-and-true way to increase metrics like user retention and customer satisfaction. It makes it easier for your users to learn how to use the application to the fullest extent, as quickly and intuitively as possible. In order to make designing for your target platforms easier, we made a cheat sheet for both iOS and Android Human Interface Guidelines (HIGs). It gives a high level summary of the User Interface, how to support multiple screen sizes, icon sizes, and touch gestures so that you don’t have to dig through the books to find them every time you need them. It also allows you to see the subtle differences between the platforms.... read the full post.

Tags: , Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, IOS, Mobile

It Takes A Village – The Lassy Project Crowdsources Communication To Keep Kids Safe

www.twilio.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: It takes a village to raise a child. But, what does it take to keep that child safe? John Guydon asked himself this question following 5th grader Jessica Ridgeway’s tragic kidnapping in his home state of Colorado back in October 2012. John Guydon is a entrepreneur, not a cop, military veteran, or security specialist. When he set out to find a way to prevent child abduction and keep neighborhoods safe, he turned to what he knew — communication. As CEO of SMS marketing platform, Duffled, John helps companies keep in touch with their customers via SMS. John created The Lassy Project, to empower parents with the communication tools they need to keep their kids safe.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Communication, Crowdsourcing, Kid Safety

karmadata Launches New Website and API Providing Users Access to Public and Private Industry Data

blog.programmableweb.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: karmadata, a collaborative information service and platform, announced the launch of the new karmadata website and industry data platform at the 2013 Data 2. 0 Summit that took place in San Francisco on April 30th. In addition, karmadata announced the launch of the brand new karmadata API that provides developers access to standardized linked data sets for specific industries including Energy, Healthcare, Legal, Technology and Socioeconomics. The karmadata platform retrieves and processes data from private and public sources. Much of the data gathered by karmadata is from sources that are not linked together and usually provided in text or XML format.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, ProgrammableWeb, Story

Making Government Data “Easy to Find, Accessible & Usable”

www.layer7tech.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: On May 9, 2013 the White House released an executive order with the title Making Open & Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information. My favorite line in the entire document is: “Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to promote interoperability and openness, and, wherever possible and legally permissible, to ensure that data are released to the public in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable” (emphasis mine). No Dumping The usual approach to this type of work is to simply publish raw data in a directory or repository and then create some fencing around the data that helps track usage and distribution.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Federal Government

Mobile Development with Connected Apps

blogs.developerforce.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: With last month’s announcement of Salesforce Mobile Services, the company introduced ten services that included Social, Identity, Trust, Geolocation, and Data services (both customer and offline). At the core of these services is a new feature, Connected Apps, that has until now only been available in a pilot program for new development orgs. However, Connected Apps will become generally available with the release of Summer ’13. So what exactly are Connected Apps? A “Connected App” is an external application that can securely connect to Force. com over Identity and Data APIs. Connected Apps essentially describe a relationship between an external application and a Salesforce user, and define an entry point into the platform.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, Identity