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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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Lemma what? A guide to Text Processing and Machine Learning API terms

blog.mashape.com on 05/17/2013

Excerpt: After we posted the a list of NLP , Sentiment Analysis , and Machine Learning APIs a while ago, we noticed that some API descriptions require a little bit of digging into, to fully appreciate what these APIs can do. Here’s an example: Text analysis API including wordnet synsets,relation extraction,named entity recognition and classification,lemmatization,part of speech tagging,tokenization, and semantic role labeling. If you’re not familiar with these words, you could totally miss the features that this API is capable of. To help with that, we have listed below an explanation to some of these words in the NLP/Machine Learning context; as well as APIs (represented as numbered links) whose descriptions mention these terms.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Machine Learning, Terms of Service, Terms of Use

Release Notes: Springpad iOS App v4.0.4

springpad.com on 05/17/2013

Excerpt: Today we released an update for the Springpad iPhone and iPad apps that includes improvements to place search and multi-word tags. Get the update now – Springpad version 4. 0. 4 Fixes and Improvements in v4. 0. 4: Enhanced place search: Search for places to spring by location name or zip code, in addition to existing search near your current location Better tagging: Now you can add multi-word tags for better organization!... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, notes

Sharing Photos on App.net

blog.app.net on 05/17/2013

Excerpt: Let’s talk photos. They play a huge part in social media. They convey in one glance what can take many words to describe. (someone should really turn that into a saying…) Most people these days walk around with a camera on them and take photos of just about anything you could imagine. Now, while we agree that not every photo is worth sharing with the world, the ready access to a photo-taking device with an internet connection have made social networks a more interesting place to hang out and we want to encourage more of it on App. net. We would like to start highlighting great photos that we see shared on App. net because we think there are some great shots being shared out there.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Images, Photos, Social Media

Sunlight Foundation: Update on FedBizOpps data

sunlightfoundation.com on 05/17/2013

Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Update on FedBizOpps data by Kaitlin Devine May 17, 2013, 10:31 a. m. Earlier this week I wrote about a discrepancy between the data in FedBizOpps and the data in USASpending. gov.... read the full post.

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

Surprise: Yahoo’s mobile push is working better than you think

gigaom.feedsportal.com on 05/17/2013

Excerpt: Summary: … according to new statistics from Onavo, which tracks actual use of mobile apps and games by “millions” of iOS users. Don’t look now but it looks like Yahoo’s mobile apps push is bearing fruit, at least according to new data from Onavo. Case in point: Yahoo Weather, which rolled out recently, already has what Onavo CEO Guy Rosen calls an “unprecedented” 3 percent market share among U. S. iPhone owners. That’s about 1. 5 million users total which makes it the 91st most popular iPhone app three weeks after release, according to Onavo Insights data. That’s very good for a new app, Rosen said in an interview. Other Yahoo mobile apps including Yahoo Messenger and the Yahoo app are also doing well.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, Mobile, Yahoo

Tableau closes Day 1 as a $2.9B public company, up 64 percent

gigaom.com on 05/17/2013

Excerpt: Summary: Tableau had a successful IPO, closing the trading day up 64 percent and raking in $254 million. CEO Christian Chabot says the company is now set to make itself known around the world. Data analytics star Tableau had a successful initial public offering on Friday, closing the day up nearly 64 percent at $50. 75 per share. That means the company brought in about $254 million (it sold 5 million shares, while stockholders sold 3. 4 million) and has a market cap of $2. 9 billion. Shares have remained relatively steady in after-hours trading, trending down only slightly. “We’re thrilled,” Tableau co-founder and CEO Christian Chabot told me during a call after the market closed. One should hope so.... read the full post.

Tags: , Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Public

Are APIs Making the Biz Dev Role Obsolete?

www.layer7tech.com on 05/16/2013

Excerpt: The role of the business developer has traditionally been to initiate partnerships and follow through by ensuring some sort of integration is implemented. As enterprises become more software-driven, integration itself increasingly comes through APIs. This may mean that the implementation of API-driven “partner portals” is replacing traditional business development practices. A recent article from Wired claimed that 70% of all jobs will be replaced by robots by the end of this century. Are APIs and partner portals the robots that will replace manual business development processes? Here’s an example of how a business partnership might come about these days.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BizDev, Business development

Auto Ad Size Makes Integration with Amazon Mobile Ads API Easier and Improves User Experience

developer.amazon.com on 05/16/2013

Excerpt: The Amazon Mobile Ads API now includes the Auto Ad Size feature, which automatically selects the appropriate ad size to display based on the user's device and your app’s ad layout. Auto Ad Size significantly reduces integration and testing time for each app, and it provides a better user experience. If you're working on updating your app, be sure to download the latest version of the Amazon Mobile Ads API, integrate the API into your app (technical documentation), and submit your app to Amazon and any other Android stores where your app is available. You can also view our introduction video. (This API is not included in the bundled SDK) Steps to integrate: Sign in to your Distribution Portal account.... read the full post.

Tags: , Advertising, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, Mobile

BIPS Provides Bitcoin Payment Processing via API

blog.programmableweb.com on 05/16/2013

Excerpt:... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Bitcoin, Currency

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

feedproxy.google.com on 05/16/2013

Excerpt: The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll be far more interested in facilitating insights from panel and audience than in wittering on about what I think, so I wanted to use this blog post to begin getting some of the issues clear in my mind. What is VM interoperability, and why does it matter? From time to time, I write about Open Data. This has nothing to do with that. The Open Data Center Alliance is interested in data centres, not data.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Virtual Machine, vm