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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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Planspot API Simplifies Event Marketing

blog.programmableweb.com on 05/14/2013

Excerpt: Planspot, event marketing service provider, provides access to its marketing tools through the Planspot API. The Planspot platform offers an all-in-one marketing tool that can manage, promote, and sell tickets to events. From promotion via email and social media, to dashboards that track sales and monitor progress, Planspot embodies its founder’s dream: “to create a single solution for event promotion, publishing, discovering and planning. ” In addition to its toolset, Planspot offers free access to its media network; which includes over 400 online and print sources. Planspot has received numerous awards for its streamlined approach to event marketing.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Events

Stormpath Community Roundup - Tasty Biscuits Edition

www.stormpath.com on 05/14/2013

Excerpt: May 14, 2013 Today is National Buttermilk Biscuit Day. Biscuits fill me with joy, as do community integrations, so here's a post packed with deliciousness from the amazing people in the Stormpath community. (First, here's an awesome biscuit recipe. Happy Biscuit Day! ) CAS-Addons, now with Richer Stormpath Support Python Login Skeleton for Stormpath Last fall, the team at Unicon released CAS 3. 5 Integration with Stormpath, which allows Stormpath to be used as a primary authentication source for CAS servers. They just added the ability to source Stormpath attributes and expose them as regular CAS Principal attributes. To quote Dmitriy at Unicon, "No need for a complex IPersonDirectoryDao impl, etc.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack

StrikeIron and Marketo Integration Shows Versatility of Both Platforms

blog.strikeiron.com on 05/14/2013

Excerpt: Marketo over the past couple of years has emerged as one of the top "lead management" platforms in the industry. Most recently, Gartner has them in the top right of their Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management (along with Eloqua, now owned by Oracle). Marketo's Revenue Performance and Marketing Automation platform helps marketers manage multiple digital channels, including email, social, online events and mobile. It is a key component of strategies that develop leads and opportunities for sales teams. As with most data-centric solutions, Marketo's platform is significantly enhanced by ensuring all of the contact data for customers and prospects at its core is correct, current, and comprehensive.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CRM

Sunlight Foundation: The White House, Congress, and Open Data Policy

sunlightfoundation.com on 05/14/2013

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. The White House, Congress, and Open Data Policy by Daniel Schuman May 14, 2013, 10 a. m. The White House's new Open Data Policy has received many accolades, but its ability to be sustained long term will depend on support from the legislative branch. Fortunately, Congress has been working on these issues for the last several years.... read the full post.

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

The Quantified Self

beautifuldata.net on 05/14/2013

Excerpt: The most common words in the Tweets tagged #qseu13 posted over the weekend. Here you find another visualization: [Wordcloud] Last weekend the 4th Conference on Quantified Self took place in Amsterdam. Quantified Self is a movement or direction of thought that summarizes many aspects of datarization of the live of people by themselves. The term “QS” was coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, who hosted the conference. Thus it cannot be denied that some roots of QS lie in the Bay-Area techno-optimistic libertarianism best represented by Wired. However a second root stems from people who started quantifying themselves to better deal with manifest health problems – be it polar disorder, insomnia or even Parkinson and cancer.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Quantified-Self

TimeZoneDB: Our API servers are out-of-sync yesterday which causing all newly registered users unable to access their API. Sorry for any inconveniences!

twitter.com on 05/14/2013

Excerpt: Our API servers are out-of-sync yesterday which causing all newly registered users unable to access their API.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, timezone

Leaflet - a JavaScript library for mobile-friendly maps - Geeklist - Geeklist

geekli.st on 05/13/2013

Excerpt: Geeklist is a vibrant platform for geeks to discover, connect and share the great work they have done and who they did it with.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Code LIbraries, JavaScript, Mapping, webmapping

Developer Advocates - Google Code

code.google.com on 05/13/2013

Excerpt: Here are some members of the Developer Relations team. We are dedicated to helping you make the most out of Google's developer products. If you are interested in learning more about what we do, please check out our jobs site. or select a product and/or region Loading.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google

Evangelist Profiles

msdn.microsoft.com on 05/13/2013

Excerpt: Abby Fichtner has been developing software wearing every hat imaginable (albeit with a particular passion for programming) since 1994. Although, technically, she got her start at the age of 8 when her father brought home an Atari 800. In the evenings, they would sit together and type in the machine code from the Atari magazines because that was the way serious geeks got their computer games! Abby has worked for a number of startups, a little company called Oracle, and a boutique firm named Number Six Software that specialized in helping organizations improve how they develop software through agile player/coaching.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Microsoft

Cloudera Announces Cloudera Developer Kit, Enabling Developers to Build Hadoop Apps Faster

nosql.mypopescu.com on 05/13/2013

Excerpt: I didn’t know what to think of this announcement after reading the WSJ title.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Data, Hadoop