PayPal revamps developer program with new iOS SDK, retooled APIs
gigaom.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: PayPal readily admits it hasn’t been the most developer-friendly company, but the online payments giant claims it is now ready to start actively courting the developer with a bevy of new tools it is launching at SXSWi. First off, it’s launching a new iOS software developer’s kit (SDK), which allows app makers to code PayPal’s payment processing tools directly into their apps, instead of opening up a PayPal authorization and payments page. PayPal devs can also embed credit card scanning software from Card. io, which PayPal bought last summer. While it’s starting with iOS, PayPal said it would expand to other mobile platforms “soon.... read the full post.
Tags: GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Payment, Payments, PayPal
Designing for the internet of things means designing for life, not screens
gigaom.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Summary: When it comes to building connected products and services, developers must abandon their screen-centric focus and figure out how people live their lives and how a new product can fit into those lives. With computer programs and mobile applications, people seek out physical devices on which to use them. When designing a service for the internet of things, however, the trick is to build something that’s almost invisible — but not so invisible that people won’t interact with it. At our GigaOM internet of things meetup held last week in San Francisco, Jawbone’s Roberto Tagliabue explained why that’s a design challenge that’s tough to deal with.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Internet-of-Things
Salesforce re-does Do with Dropbox, Google integrations
gigaom.com
on 02/18/2013
Excerpt: The thing about collaboration is that you can’t do it alone. That’s the rationale behind Do More, an enhanced version of Salesforce. com’s Do task and project management software that was designed to make it easy for small business staffs to work together and with partners and customers using popular tools. Do More claims easy integration with Dropbox, Google Drive, Harvest, Contactually and Wufoo. Most small workgroups already have favorite consumer-oriented tools they use every day (hello Dropbox! ), so it makes a lot of sense to make it drop-dead easy for them to keep using those tools instead of trying to lure them away.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dropbox, GigaOm, Google Drive, Googlereader, Ifttt, SalesForce
DataSift open-sources its social media analysis tool
gigaom.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Summary: The concept of bringing social media sentiment closer to business intelligence is a sensible move that can help companies create more value from social media. DataSift is releasing an open-source version of its Query Builder service to work alongside enterprises’ existing business-intelligence software, allowing more employees to gain more insight from social media mentions. The open-source presentation of Query Builder, which permits existing DataSift customers’ developers to simplify the tool’s appearance and functionality, might seem like a matter of crossing big data with even more data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, DataSift, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Open source
Twitter reportedly acquiring Bluefin Labs
gigaom.com
on 02/04/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Reports came out on Monday that Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a company that attempts to measure interaction around television and media on social media and provide feedback to businesses and marketers. Twitter appears to have acquired Bluefin Labs, a social media analytics company that attempts to understand how social media conversations and interactions take place around television. The news of Twitter’s acquisition was first reported by Business Insider. Neither Twitter nor Bluefin have responded to requests for comment. For Twitter, working with a company like Bluefin, whose CEO JP Maheu will be speaking at PaidContent’s conference in April, makes perfect sense.... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, Bluefin Labs, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Television, Twitter
Twitter experiences connectivity issues on Inauguration Day
gigaom.com
on 01/23/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Some Twitter users are reporting issues getting access to the service, and the company wrote on its blog Monday that engineers are working on a fix. The outage comes on Inauguration Day, when millions of tweets about the inauguration are flowing through the site. Twitter is experiencing outages on Monday, with some users reporting difficulty accessing tweets and a variety of Twitter apps, and the company posted to its blog that its engineers are working on a fix. Some users are also experiencing trouble with redirects and t. co links, or links shortened by Twitter, which is problematic for anyone sharing links through the site. Update: Twitter posted that it had resolved the problem around 10 PM PST on Monday.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Reliability, Twitter
The internet of things is going to need its own Android-like project
gigaom.com
on 01/11/2013
Excerpt: Summary: The internet of things will be big… eventually. But first companies will have to navigate rapidly changing technology ecosystems and perhaps fight for access to the data to make their devices worth with others. What we need are open ecosystems akin to Android. Remember how I said the internet of things would be big at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? It didn’t take a genius to figure that out, but I laid out four questions to ask about all the hyped objects at the show to help people understand the challenges and question facing the glut of connected gadgets that would be on display. And one of them — especially important for startups — was about ecosystems and control points.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Internet-of-Things
Codecademy teaches aspiring coders to use APIs with YouTube, SoundCloud, NPR — Tech News and Analysis
gigaom.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: Summary: To help its students learn by doing, Codecademy is partnering with several popular websites and services for a new track of lessons on building with APIs. Supplied by the companies, the lessons teach students how to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts and more. Starting today, wannabe programmers on Codecademy will get to do more than just fiddle around with code in a vacuum. They’ll be able to plug into the APIs of several popular websites and services to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts, congressional records and more. With ten partners, including YouTube, NPR, Soundcloud, Bit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt
Holy moly: Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month
gigaom.com
on 05/15/2012
Excerpt: Updated. Netflix clocked close to 42 billion API requests per day in January, according to the company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson, who revealed the number as part of a presentation he recently gave to the Paypal engineering team. In his slides, Jacobson pointed out that the number of API requests has grown 70-fold in just two years, from 600 million in January of 2010 to 41. 7 billion in January of 2012. Providing an API that is resilient enough to handle these kinds of demands is not a small feat, and Jacobson’s slides reveal some of the principles behind the architecture used for the task.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, GigaOm, Netflix
Excerpt: Summary: When it comes to building connected products and services, developers must abandon their screen-centric focus and figure out how people live their lives and how a new product can fit into those lives. With computer programs and mobile applications, people seek out physical devices on which to use them. When designing a service for the internet of things, however, the trick is to build something that’s almost invisible — but not so invisible that people won’t interact with it. At our GigaOM internet of things meetup held last week in San Francisco, Jawbone’s Roberto Tagliabue explained why that’s a design challenge that’s tough to deal with.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Internet-of-Things
Salesforce re-does Do with Dropbox, Google integrations
gigaom.com
on 02/18/2013
Excerpt: The thing about collaboration is that you can’t do it alone. That’s the rationale behind Do More, an enhanced version of Salesforce. com’s Do task and project management software that was designed to make it easy for small business staffs to work together and with partners and customers using popular tools. Do More claims easy integration with Dropbox, Google Drive, Harvest, Contactually and Wufoo. Most small workgroups already have favorite consumer-oriented tools they use every day (hello Dropbox! ), so it makes a lot of sense to make it drop-dead easy for them to keep using those tools instead of trying to lure them away.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dropbox, GigaOm, Google Drive, Googlereader, Ifttt, SalesForce
DataSift open-sources its social media analysis tool
gigaom.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Summary: The concept of bringing social media sentiment closer to business intelligence is a sensible move that can help companies create more value from social media. DataSift is releasing an open-source version of its Query Builder service to work alongside enterprises’ existing business-intelligence software, allowing more employees to gain more insight from social media mentions. The open-source presentation of Query Builder, which permits existing DataSift customers’ developers to simplify the tool’s appearance and functionality, might seem like a matter of crossing big data with even more data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, DataSift, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Open source
Twitter reportedly acquiring Bluefin Labs
gigaom.com
on 02/04/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Reports came out on Monday that Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a company that attempts to measure interaction around television and media on social media and provide feedback to businesses and marketers. Twitter appears to have acquired Bluefin Labs, a social media analytics company that attempts to understand how social media conversations and interactions take place around television. The news of Twitter’s acquisition was first reported by Business Insider. Neither Twitter nor Bluefin have responded to requests for comment. For Twitter, working with a company like Bluefin, whose CEO JP Maheu will be speaking at PaidContent’s conference in April, makes perfect sense.... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, Bluefin Labs, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Television, Twitter
Twitter experiences connectivity issues on Inauguration Day
gigaom.com
on 01/23/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Some Twitter users are reporting issues getting access to the service, and the company wrote on its blog Monday that engineers are working on a fix. The outage comes on Inauguration Day, when millions of tweets about the inauguration are flowing through the site. Twitter is experiencing outages on Monday, with some users reporting difficulty accessing tweets and a variety of Twitter apps, and the company posted to its blog that its engineers are working on a fix. Some users are also experiencing trouble with redirects and t. co links, or links shortened by Twitter, which is problematic for anyone sharing links through the site. Update: Twitter posted that it had resolved the problem around 10 PM PST on Monday.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Reliability, Twitter
The internet of things is going to need its own Android-like project
gigaom.com
on 01/11/2013
Excerpt: Summary: The internet of things will be big… eventually. But first companies will have to navigate rapidly changing technology ecosystems and perhaps fight for access to the data to make their devices worth with others. What we need are open ecosystems akin to Android. Remember how I said the internet of things would be big at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? It didn’t take a genius to figure that out, but I laid out four questions to ask about all the hyped objects at the show to help people understand the challenges and question facing the glut of connected gadgets that would be on display. And one of them — especially important for startups — was about ecosystems and control points.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Internet-of-Things
Codecademy teaches aspiring coders to use APIs with YouTube, SoundCloud, NPR — Tech News and Analysis
gigaom.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: Summary: To help its students learn by doing, Codecademy is partnering with several popular websites and services for a new track of lessons on building with APIs. Supplied by the companies, the lessons teach students how to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts and more. Starting today, wannabe programmers on Codecademy will get to do more than just fiddle around with code in a vacuum. They’ll be able to plug into the APIs of several popular websites and services to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts, congressional records and more. With ten partners, including YouTube, NPR, Soundcloud, Bit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt
Holy moly: Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month
gigaom.com
on 05/15/2012
Excerpt: Updated. Netflix clocked close to 42 billion API requests per day in January, according to the company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson, who revealed the number as part of a presentation he recently gave to the Paypal engineering team. In his slides, Jacobson pointed out that the number of API requests has grown 70-fold in just two years, from 600 million in January of 2010 to 41. 7 billion in January of 2012. Providing an API that is resilient enough to handle these kinds of demands is not a small feat, and Jacobson’s slides reveal some of the principles behind the architecture used for the task.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, GigaOm, Netflix
Excerpt: Summary: The concept of bringing social media sentiment closer to business intelligence is a sensible move that can help companies create more value from social media. DataSift is releasing an open-source version of its Query Builder service to work alongside enterprises’ existing business-intelligence software, allowing more employees to gain more insight from social media mentions. The open-source presentation of Query Builder, which permits existing DataSift customers’ developers to simplify the tool’s appearance and functionality, might seem like a matter of crossing big data with even more data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, DataSift, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Open source
Twitter reportedly acquiring Bluefin Labs
gigaom.com
on 02/04/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Reports came out on Monday that Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a company that attempts to measure interaction around television and media on social media and provide feedback to businesses and marketers. Twitter appears to have acquired Bluefin Labs, a social media analytics company that attempts to understand how social media conversations and interactions take place around television. The news of Twitter’s acquisition was first reported by Business Insider. Neither Twitter nor Bluefin have responded to requests for comment. For Twitter, working with a company like Bluefin, whose CEO JP Maheu will be speaking at PaidContent’s conference in April, makes perfect sense.... read the full post.
Tags: Acquisition, API-Evangelist, Bluefin Labs, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Television, Twitter
Twitter experiences connectivity issues on Inauguration Day
gigaom.com
on 01/23/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Some Twitter users are reporting issues getting access to the service, and the company wrote on its blog Monday that engineers are working on a fix. The outage comes on Inauguration Day, when millions of tweets about the inauguration are flowing through the site. Twitter is experiencing outages on Monday, with some users reporting difficulty accessing tweets and a variety of Twitter apps, and the company posted to its blog that its engineers are working on a fix. Some users are also experiencing trouble with redirects and t. co links, or links shortened by Twitter, which is problematic for anyone sharing links through the site. Update: Twitter posted that it had resolved the problem around 10 PM PST on Monday.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Reliability, Twitter
The internet of things is going to need its own Android-like project
gigaom.com
on 01/11/2013
Excerpt: Summary: The internet of things will be big… eventually. But first companies will have to navigate rapidly changing technology ecosystems and perhaps fight for access to the data to make their devices worth with others. What we need are open ecosystems akin to Android. Remember how I said the internet of things would be big at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? It didn’t take a genius to figure that out, but I laid out four questions to ask about all the hyped objects at the show to help people understand the challenges and question facing the glut of connected gadgets that would be on display. And one of them — especially important for startups — was about ecosystems and control points.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Internet-of-Things
Codecademy teaches aspiring coders to use APIs with YouTube, SoundCloud, NPR — Tech News and Analysis
gigaom.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: Summary: To help its students learn by doing, Codecademy is partnering with several popular websites and services for a new track of lessons on building with APIs. Supplied by the companies, the lessons teach students how to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts and more. Starting today, wannabe programmers on Codecademy will get to do more than just fiddle around with code in a vacuum. They’ll be able to plug into the APIs of several popular websites and services to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts, congressional records and more. With ten partners, including YouTube, NPR, Soundcloud, Bit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt
Holy moly: Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month
gigaom.com
on 05/15/2012
Excerpt: Updated. Netflix clocked close to 42 billion API requests per day in January, according to the company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson, who revealed the number as part of a presentation he recently gave to the Paypal engineering team. In his slides, Jacobson pointed out that the number of API requests has grown 70-fold in just two years, from 600 million in January of 2010 to 41. 7 billion in January of 2012. Providing an API that is resilient enough to handle these kinds of demands is not a small feat, and Jacobson’s slides reveal some of the principles behind the architecture used for the task.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, GigaOm, Netflix
Excerpt: Summary: Some Twitter users are reporting issues getting access to the service, and the company wrote on its blog Monday that engineers are working on a fix. The outage comes on Inauguration Day, when millions of tweets about the inauguration are flowing through the site. Twitter is experiencing outages on Monday, with some users reporting difficulty accessing tweets and a variety of Twitter apps, and the company posted to its blog that its engineers are working on a fix. Some users are also experiencing trouble with redirects and t. co links, or links shortened by Twitter, which is problematic for anyone sharing links through the site. Update: Twitter posted that it had resolved the problem around 10 PM PST on Monday.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Reliability, Twitter
The internet of things is going to need its own Android-like project
gigaom.com
on 01/11/2013
Excerpt: Summary: The internet of things will be big… eventually. But first companies will have to navigate rapidly changing technology ecosystems and perhaps fight for access to the data to make their devices worth with others. What we need are open ecosystems akin to Android. Remember how I said the internet of things would be big at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? It didn’t take a genius to figure that out, but I laid out four questions to ask about all the hyped objects at the show to help people understand the challenges and question facing the glut of connected gadgets that would be on display. And one of them — especially important for startups — was about ecosystems and control points.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt, Internet-of-Things
Codecademy teaches aspiring coders to use APIs with YouTube, SoundCloud, NPR — Tech News and Analysis
gigaom.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: Summary: To help its students learn by doing, Codecademy is partnering with several popular websites and services for a new track of lessons on building with APIs. Supplied by the companies, the lessons teach students how to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts and more. Starting today, wannabe programmers on Codecademy will get to do more than just fiddle around with code in a vacuum. They’ll be able to plug into the APIs of several popular websites and services to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts, congressional records and more. With ten partners, including YouTube, NPR, Soundcloud, Bit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt
Holy moly: Netflix clocks 42B API requests per month
gigaom.com
on 05/15/2012
Excerpt: Updated. Netflix clocked close to 42 billion API requests per day in January, according to the company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson, who revealed the number as part of a presentation he recently gave to the Paypal engineering team. In his slides, Jacobson pointed out that the number of API requests has grown 70-fold in just two years, from 600 million in January of 2010 to 41. 7 billion in January of 2012. Providing an API that is resilient enough to handle these kinds of demands is not a small feat, and Jacobson’s slides reveal some of the principles behind the architecture used for the task.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, GigaOm, Netflix
Excerpt: Summary: To help its students learn by doing, Codecademy is partnering with several popular websites and services for a new track of lessons on building with APIs. Supplied by the companies, the lessons teach students how to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts and more. Starting today, wannabe programmers on Codecademy will get to do more than just fiddle around with code in a vacuum. They’ll be able to plug into the APIs of several popular websites and services to build apps around YouTube videos, NPR newscasts, congressional records and more. With ten partners, including YouTube, NPR, Soundcloud, Bit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, GigaOm, Googlereader, Ifttt
