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I was just downloading all of my Facebook data. You can go under your account settings and there is a little link that lets you download everything. It takes some time to generate a full archive, but once my archive is ready, they’ll email me and I can get at my data and see what the down...
While contracting with CityGrid this spring, one event I sponsored and participated in was the TechCrunch NYC Hackathon. The hackathon was definitely one of the larger hackathons I've attended, filling an entire warehouse.
I gave a workshop on how to use the CityGrid hackathon, then after the hac...
Hackathons are exploding in popularity and open API publishers are quickly realizing the power they have to attract developers. For API publishers, hackathons represent one of the most powerful means for growing an API’s profile and engaging directly with talented developers. If you want learn more about hackathons,
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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. We’ve added samples to each of the ...
When I was a tech blogger for ReadWriteWeb and API-related news broke, we writers would often shudder. “Well, you can’t use API in the headline,” the argument in the newsroom went. It’s the page-view-kiss-of-death. That’s not because APIs aren’t super-important or super-ubiquitous on the Web (they are both). It’s because most “normals” ...
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&nb...
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 be...
Urban Airship came out with some new push notification tools this week, including services that allow you to slice-and-dice your mobile application au...
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 bu...
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.
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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 thr...
