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Twitter faces the same dilemma as the New York Times
gigaom.com
There’s been a lot written recently about Twitter and the choices it seems to be making about the future of the network, although the exact nature of those choices still remains shrouded in mystery. Some say Twitter made the wrong choice when it decided to focus on advertising as...
Open government reboot focuses on APIs instead of data
arstechnica.com
Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Digital Government Strategy is the basis of a new White House directive to expose "high-value" Federal data through Web APIs Have you ever wanted a mobile app that ties your location to crime statistics, government environmental and health data, and...
Eventbrite Launches iPad Credit-Card Reader At The Door: A Lost Opportunity For Square?
www.fastcompany.com
Jack Dorsey's mobile-payment startup Square, one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies, is now processing $4 billion in annualized payments. So it's no wonder why competition to its Square device, which turns any iPad or iPhone into a credit-card reader, is fast heating up. Alternatives are popping up...
Pinterest iPad app and new profile pages in the works
venturebeat.com
Pin-board startup Pinterest will soon launch new profile pages and an iPad app, important steps that will help the company solidify its status as 2012′s hottest startup. Pinterest was launched in 2010, but in the past six months it has seen astronomical growth and now counts as one of...
Insert Coin: Node helps your smartphone monitor pretty much everything
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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. Fallen out of love with sensor? Don't worry, Variable Technologies is...
Chirpify Facilitates Scarily Seamless Twitter Payments
pandodaily.com
Sell Simply launched last year with the goal of changing Twitter from a content platform to a marketplace. After a few months of testing and 300 transactions, the company relaunched today as a full Twitter commerce platform with a new name–Chirpify. The product uses Paypal to facilitate payments on Twitter....
OLogic wants to make your phone truly mobile by giving it wheels
venturebeat.com
If you ever thought that what your iPhone is really missing is a robotic body, you’re in luck. OLogic just launched a Kickstarter campaign for an autonomous smartphone robot, which can move around and interact with other phone-bots. OLogic developed the modular, wireless, and hackable robots, called Oddwerx, last year...
8 Securities launches to make investing easy and customizable (exclusive)
venturebeat.com
Hong Kong-based 8 Securities, an investment service for the average Joe, announced the launch of its financial dashboard today. 8 Securities wants to make investing easier for people who don’t have a stock trading background. Account holders can access a dashboard that is completely customizable with widgets displaying trading information,...
TED releases official app for Android and Kindle Fire
gigaom.com
TED talks are coming to more handsets and tablets, thanks to a new app for Android as well as Kindle Fire officially released Thursday morning. The new app offers free access to more than 1100 TED talks and includes mobile-specific features like offline viewing as well as a special audio...
Consumer Health Company Jiff Announces $7.5 M in Funding and a New CEO
pandodaily.com
Jiff– a company that debuted its slick doctor-patient iPad application at last fall’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference– is announcing some significant news today. It has raised $7.5 million in venture capital from Aeris Capital and Aberdare Ventures. It has hired Derek Newell as its new CEO. And it’s unveiling a product...
Dolphin unveils Garage, API access for add-ons and web apps
www.engadget.com
The Dolphin browser has earned quite a following, by offering a healthy mix of speed and features. Now the company is opening up its offerings to further expansion though an open API service called Garage. The new portal opens up 150 APIs to third party developers who might want...
What Twitter could have been
daltoncaldwell.com
I remember when you could go to Twitter.com and see the global firehose on the front page. They had no traffic. The global feed was mostly employees and their friends talking to each other. When Twitter started to get traction, a year or two into their existence, I decided that...
Despite saying it wouldn’t, Netflix turns off DVD access in API, breaking apps that rely on it
thenextweb.com
As of today, June 1st, Netflix has shut off access to DVD-related features in its Open API, despite telling developers that it would not do this. This has caused many popular Netflix queue managers and other apps that use the API to cease working properly. Last year, Netflix’ David Gross...
Google planning Siri-like ‘Assistant’ for later this year, says report
venturebeat.com
Google will release a voice-enabled application for Android that is similar to Apple’s popular Siri by the fourth quarter of 2012, according a report by TechCrunch. While some view Siri as a gimmick, Apple touted its voice assistant heavily in several advertising campaigns throughout the winter. Apple must have...
The State of Online Music Discovery
www.readwriteweb.com
Choosing music that someone else would like is more complex than suggesting toaster ovens or even movies. The reasons we like a song are highly subjective and can hinge on very specific, sometimes subtle characteristics. Thus music recommendation is a hard problem whose solution would simplify and brighten the lives...
What's an "Open Cloud," Anyway? Red Hat Says It's Not VMware
www.readwriteweb.com
When open source started gaining in popularity, a lot of vendors started trying to co-opt the open source label without actually being open source. You don't see quite as much of that today, but now we're seeing vendors trying to affix the "open" label to cloud solutions that really aren't....
New Pinterest profile pages are now live
venturebeat.com
Hot-as-heck startup Pinterest has just introduced brand-new profile pages, its first major design change since its major rise in popularity in the last six months. Pinterest launched in 2010, but recently it has seen astronomical growth and counts as one of the top 10 social networks on the web....
Facebook Questions appear in mobile News Feed
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook now displays Questions activity in the mobile News Feed nearly a year after the product launched on the desktop version of the site. Mobile users can finally see and answer Facebook Questions from their friends and pages. This could increase engagement for pages who use the feature to poll...
Tim Cook reportedly questioned Path CEO after iPhone privacy fiasco
venturebeat.com
After social network Path was caught red-handed for copying personal data from people’s iPhones, CEO Dave Morin apologized for the major screw up and moved on. But before the apology came, Morin was reportedly dragged into Apple CEO Tim Cook’s office and “grilled” over the infraction. Path’s misstep was...
Get Ready for More TaskRabbit, With New Open API
allthingsd.com
TaskRabbit, the Bay Area-based start-up that farms out human “rabbits” to perform the odious chores you hate to do (like build IKEA bookshelves #firstworldproblems), is introducing a version of its application that allows other companies to tap into the rabbit-hiring. In short, it’s offering an open API. For casual app...
An Open API from MasterCard to Develop Applications? Priceless
www.readwriteweb.com
In a press release this morning, MasterCard has announced that desktop and mobile developers will have access to an application programming interface (API) from the credit card giant later this year. The company hopes that by opening its technology to developers, new and innovative e-commerce applications that leverage the MasterCard...
Introduction to OpenCalais
www.opencalais.com
INTRODUCTION TO OPENCALAIS The free OpenCalais service and open API is the fastest way to tag the people, places, facts and events in your content. It can help you improve your SEO, increase your reader engagement, create search-engine-friendly ‘topic hubs’ and streamline content operations – saving you time and...
Instagram is firm on its stance, refusing third party apps upload access
thenextweb.com
While there have been rumours that an official Instagram app may hit Windows Phone before Android, any efforts by third party developers appear to be completely unwelcome by the California-based startup. According to WP Central, Windows developer Bil Simser was working on an Instagram client for the Windows Phone, but...
Cartoon: Just Venting
www.readwriteweb.com
By the time you read this today, the BP/Transocean/Halliburton oil hemorrhage may finally be on its way to a resolution. Or it may still be burbling away, happily coating wildlife, habitat and the region's tourism and fishing industries with a viscous sheen of Game Over. A lot of us have...
Twitter Analytical Tools Threaten Third-Party Developers
www.readwriteweb.com
Twitter may become the heavyweight in analytics of its own content, boxing out rivals HootSuite, bit.ly and Klout. As first reported by ReadWriteWeb, Twitter plans to launch sophisticated analytical tools, according to Erica Anderson, Twitter's manager for news and journalism. Anderson, who made the comments last weekend at a social...
Mapping Meaning: Showing Social Impact With Open Action
blog.programmableweb.com
Put your social project on the map. Or, use those already listed to find something new in an area you care about. The OpenAction Map is a well-done full-screen map mashup that shows positive work based on the location that is being impacted. The organization behind the map has a...
Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data
www.readwriteweb.com
Innovations in communications software and websites can be quite exciting. After the dust dies down, however, it's really not clear how much more information has been made available, how much more people can communicate, how much more thinking has been enabled. London-based Mendeley's offering up an Open API and making...
Google Buzz Now Available via Yahoo’s YQL
blog.programmableweb.com
Another day, another API… Keeping on top of all the APIs that have been made public these days can be a full time job, not mention trying to write code across all of them. Yahoo thought so too, and so they created Yahoo Query Language (YQL), which offers a simplified,...
Flickr Still Lags on Mobile, But At Least Its New HTML5 Uploader Respects Privacy
www.readwriteweb.com
Yesterday Flickr announced its new HTML5 photo uploader, which offers a few perks for regular users of the photo-sharing service. Now users can rearrange photos that they've uploaded, placing them in the exact order in which they'd like to see them. On the Web version they can, at least....
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