Diving Deeper Into Data from Research

by on 05/15/2012

I was reading a report commissioned by Google and conducted by Ipsos MediaCT in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, called Our Mobile Planet. You can find the report at OurMobilePlanet. com. Included with the report on the mobile consumer, the site provides access to the full set of data from the research through a chart creation tool or the direct download of full country level data files. The report is very informative, but the real story is how the report is published. It is a complete site, report, reporting tools and full access to the data. This is nothing new. Its something The Guardian does well in the context of data-driven journalism.... read more.

Tags: Data, Google, Journalism, Mobile, Research

Business and Politics of APIs

by on 05/14/2012

This summer its been 2 years since I started API Evangelist. API Evangelist started as my research project into the Business of APIs, and became a full time career. While over the last two years I’ve worked for clients like Mimeo and CityGrid, my ultimate goal is to focus on studying the Business of APIs. So whenever I get the time, I study how popular APIs operate, and how they are transforming industries. This month, I’m getting the opportunity to dive deeper into my research around different API business models, with the chance to look at the politics within specific API ecosystems.... read more.

Tags: Amazon, API Economy, Business of APIs, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Research, Twilio, Twitter

Tools of the CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon

by on 04/25/2012

We have a pretty awesome line-up of tools, platforms and APIs for people to use when building their local web and mobile apps this weekend at the CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon: 3Scale (@3Scale) - A Plug & Play Cloud based API Management Infrastructure for Developers, Startups, SMBs and Enterprises to securely open, control, manage and monetize their API to 3rd parties. CityGrid (@CityGridAPITeam) - Places, offers, reviews APIs and mobile, web and custom advertising with places that pay. CloudyRec (@Cloudyrec) - CloudyRec is a mobile app scaffolding engine with integrated Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS).... read more.

Tags: 3Scale, CityGrid, Factual, GeoCoda, Hackathon, IPGP, Iron.io, Jeppesen, Los Angeles, Socrata, Spire.io, Tiggzi, Verious

Supporting Encrypted Cloud Storage for Modern Web Languages

by on 04/15/2012

As more of our lives move online, into the clouds, encrypted backup and storage of not just our vital data, but our personal photos, files and streams is becoming critical--this responsibility to provide secure cloud storage and backup solutions is up to developers of the software, people use every day. IDrive is working to provide these solutions for developers by delivering two interfaces for developers to integrate encrypted storage into their applications: Command Line Utility - Develop highly scalable, reliable and fast applications to manage your storage on IDrive EVS. Best for desktop applications and also ideal for CRON jobs.... read more.

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Delivery Encrypted Cloud Storage for Ruby Applications

by on 04/15/2012

IDrive just finished a set of Ruby samples complete with full library you can use when developing your encrypted, versioned cloud storage for your web application, using IDrive EVS REST API. With the introduction of the web application framework Rails, the popularity of Ruby for building web apps has skyrocketed.... read more.

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Encrypted Cloud Storage with Python

by on 04/15/2012

IDrive now has a set of Python samples complete with full library you can use when developing your encrypted, versioned cloud storage for your web application. Python is one of the fastest growing, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language--embraced by giants like Google.... read more.

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Build Secure, Encrypted Cloud Storage Solutions with PHP

by on 04/15/2012

IDrive now has PHP samples complete with full library you can use when developing your encrypted, versioned cloud storage for your software solution. PHP is widely is in many web applications today, so it’s a language we couldn’t ignore.... read more.

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Turn Your Wordpress Blog into Mobile City Guide

by on 04/09/2012

I'm always on the lookout for tools that CityGrid publishers can use alongside the web and mobile apps they've built using CityGrid Places and Advertising APIs. Today I came across a cool Wordpress plugin over at WP Mayor, a site for WordPress news, articles, hacks and plugin reviews, that turns your local blog into an iPhone enabled city guide, called Placeling. To get started, Placeling provides an iPhone app that allows you to mark places that you've been, which will provide the reference for blog posts that you write later.  Next you install and activate the Placeling plugin in your Worpress site.... read more.

Tags: CityGrid, Hyp3rL0cal, IPhone, Local, Mobile, Placeling

CityGrid LA Hackathon

by on 04/09/2012

The future of the World Wide Web is local. As we spend more of our lives on our mobile phones, local data and apps become critical in helping us find the restaurant for a lunch meeting, the bar where our best friends are Friday night, the local retail store to make our next purchase, and to interact with our city government to make the cities we live in a better place. You can help shape the future of local, with the CityGrid LA Hackathon, a creative, local innovation event bringing together developers, local marketers, local advertisers and even local merchants to help build applications, data visualizations and other creative technology that helps define the future of local.... read more.

Tags: City, CityGrid, Civic, Developers, Hack, Hackathon

CityGrid Local, Mobile Stack: Urban Airship

by on 04/07/2012

Urban Airship came out with some new push notification tools this week, including services that allow you to slice-and-dice your mobile application audiences by location, time, context and preference--allowing you to improve the relevancy and targeting of messages and offers. Some examples they give are: a national retailer could off-load excess inventory held by various stores by targeting offers to people in those cities or multiple ZIP codes that have a preference for that product category. a sports or entertainment venue could target people that are nearby right now to drive attendance on a slow day, or offer longer-term promotions for people that were visitors within the last six months but not in the prior three months.... read more.

Tags: Android, ios, Messaging, Mobile, Notifications, Urban Airship

New CityGrid Template for Wordpress Search Plugin

by on 04/07/2012

I pushed an update for the CityGrid Wordpress Directory Plugin earlier today.   I finished porting over the changes to the CityGrid Wordpress Search Plugin as well. Both my Wordpress plugins had a pretty basic look and feel, I wanted them to look better. So using the HTML and CSS template I borrowed from CityGrid I added it to both of the CityGrid Wordpress Plugins to make them look sharper. So now both the CityGrid Wordpress Directory Plugin and CityGrid Wordpress Search Plugin have a default UI template, as well as the ability to switch it and make it look like CityGrid. com.... read more.

Tags: Business, Directory, Listing, Plugin, WordPress

Socrata Releases New Cloud-Based Mapping Solution Mondara

by on 04/07/2012

The open data platform Socrata just released a new cloud mapping software called Mondara, designed for users with no GIS expertise, allowing them to build online maps from existing data Shapefile or KML files. While Shapefiles or KML files are probably still pretty technical for most users, with Mondara any users can upload existing spreadsheets containing address information, and turn them into online maps. Mondara provides an online interface for creating maps with existing data, as well as enabling users to add, managing and combine layers within the a map, providing a lot of detail about your location data.... read more.

Tags: City, Mapping, Open Data, Socrata

New CityGrid Template for Wordpress Directory Plugin

by on 04/07/2012

I just pushed an update for the CityGrid Wordpress Directory Plugin. The Wordpress Plugin lets any Wordpress site owner to launch a business directory for their site, allowing them to choose the business categories they wish to display. For example, if you want to show pizza, burgers, seafood and chinese food in your neighborhood you can launch the plugin, choose your categories, enter your city, neighborhood or zip code and it automatically adds a directory to your menu with the categories you wish to display. The plugin has been around for a month, but it had a pretty basic look and feel, I wanted it to look better.... read more.

Tags: CityGrid, Plugin, Search, WordPress

CityGrid Local, Mobile, Social Stack: Verizon Mapkit API

by on 03/05/2012

I’m spending more time building, what I’ve dubbed the CityGrid Local, Mobile, Social Stack, a list of APIs, platforms and tools that you can use in your local-mobile applications.  With the latest move by Foursquare to join the OpenStreetMaps movement, I’m focused on finding the best mapping tools for the CityGrid Local, Mobile, Social Stack. First on my list of alternative mapping solutions is Verizon Mapkit API, which provides location-based services that include maps, search, traffic and static directions.... read more.

Tags: Android, Blackberry, CityGrid, ios, Map, Mapping, Mobile, Verizon

Mobile Advertising Platform Round-Up

by on 03/04/2012

I’m doing more research for my Local, Mobile, Social Stack, and spending some time understanding the mobile advertising space.... read more.

Tags: Ads, Advertising, Local, Mobile, Social

Business Directory for your Local Wordpress Blog or Site

by on 02/28/2012

I finished the first version of a business directory WordPress plugin that you can use to deploy a local directory for your Wordpress site or blog. I wanted to make an easy way for non-developers, to launch a local directory for one or multiple business categories. The Hyp3rL0cal Wordpress Plugin uses two APIs: CityGrid Places API CityGrid Advertising API To install the CityGrid Hyp3rL0cal Wordpress Plugin you have two options: Search for it and install using the Plugin Search in your Wordpress site (this is the easiest). Download it from the Wordpress plugin directory or via Github, and upload using the "plugin upload" in your Wordpress site.... read more.

Tags: Business, CityGrid, Directory, Local, Places, Plugin, WordPress

CityGrid Places API with Hyp3r0cal for Wordpress

by on 02/18/2012

I wanted a way to make the rich content available via CityGrid APIs accessible to anyone, even if you weren't a developer. CityGrid has some great iOS and Android software development kits (SDK) available for building local, mobile applications. I've also built some samples and starter kits for building local web applications in PHP, Python and Ruby. WordPress seemed like the perfect next step to reach a larger audience, so I took the PHP Hyp3rL0cal directory that uses CityGrid Places API, and deployed it as a Wordpress Plugin. Now you can launch a quick section on your Wordpress blog or site that allows you to display businesses for your area, in whatever category you wish.... read more.

Tags: CityGrid, Local, Plugin, WordPress

Local, Geo Landscape Roundup - February 15th, 2012

by on 02/15/2012

The best of the blog posts and tweets from Localeze, Acxiom, InfoGroup, Verizon, YPG. com, Yahoo GeoPlanet, Foursquare, Facebook, Google Places, Google Mobile Ads, Google Geo, Simple Geo, Factual, Yelp, Fwix, Infochimps, PlacesIQ, HyperPublic and Placecast for the week. In an effort to keep track of whats going on in the local and geo landscape I track on all of the tweets and blog posts from these providers. From the Foursquare Blog Quick Tip: Finding last minute flowers, treats, and date night spots!  - (02/14/2012) - Explore on your phoneto find the nearest chocolates, flowers, or cupcakes on the way to your date tonight. (Try searching cozy, romantic, or delicious if youre still looking for a place to go! ) Good luck!... read more.

Tags: Geo, Local, Roundup

Local, Geo Landscape Roundup - February 6th, 2012

by on 02/07/2012

From the Facebook Blog Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March - (02/06/2012) - We're excited to announce Facebook Developer Day at Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday, March 5th. Conference attendees are invited to join the Facebook Platform team for interactive discussions throughout the day on best practices and pro-tips for building social games. At this all-day event, developers will learn the fundamentals of building successful social games across platforms, including mobile and console, and how to deeply integrate apps with timeline through Open Graph.... read more.

Tags: Acxiom, Facebook, Geo, InfoChimps, InfoGroup, InMobi, Local, Twitter

SEO Friendly, Static Local Directory Without Caching Data

by on 02/05/2012

I’m working on several prototypes for building CityGrid local directories, demonstrating best practices when building web and mobile apps using CityGrid APIs. One question I’ve gotten a lot lately is how are developers supposed to build SEO friendly local directories with static pages if they aren’t allowed to cache businesses and places from the CityGrid API? It is true, per the CityGrid Usage Requirements, you aren’t allowed to store places data in a local database or cache locally. But if you think about this, it isn’t a negative, its a positive.... read more.

Tags: Bing, Google, Local Directory, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Yahoo


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