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I made some more changes to my network over the holidays. I'm working to better tie together my blog(s) and my social network profiles using the rel="" property.
The process is a three part process, meant to link the various places I write with my author brand, that is represented in my social n...
There has been a lot of requests for .NET code samples for integrating applications with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
I was telling too many potential customers that I do not have .NET code samples, and they would have to write from scratch.
So I finally ma...
I am playing around with a cool new web application that converts image files into HTML / CSS, appropriately called IMG to CSS.
The site doesn't look like much, but what it does is pretty cool. I ran the Mimeo logo through it.
Google updated the Google Cloud Print website today with all new documentation, code samples and other goodies to help get up and running using Google Clou...
I never view closing down a project as a failure, if I make sure and record information about the project throughout its life. Then I have access to what was learned over its life. Good or bad.
I have many crazy ideas, executed in a variety of ways. All of them I learn something, otherwise I wouldn't do them.
I was just reading a...
The New York Times just covered the problems faced when opening up government data, in the article, How to Break an Information Bottleneck?
At the beginning of his presidency, President Obama expressed that, All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor ...
Github just released a new Github client for the Mac. It provides a GUI alternative to the Github command line.
Some features of the new Github for Mac are:
I'm working on a series of presentations showing what is possible with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print Platform.
Sometimes its difficult to show people the 100K foot level of what you can do with the print API.
This presentation is from a demo I did for some print industry executives, to wet their appetite for what is possible.
It covers:
Cloud computing holds the promise of infinite scalability and capacity. We hust pay for what we use, and whatever capacity you need is there.
This holds true on the server and back-end of the cloud. Where this promse will begin to break down is on the front-end of t...
Dropbox is a dead simple, web-based file hosting service, that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files with others across the Internet using file synchronization.
Dropbox is a perfect platform for printing fro...
I really enjoy web applications that focus on doing one thing, and doing it well.
Pen.io is one of these apps. Pen.io is the fastest way to publish online. period.
Pen.io allows you to add, edit, and delete pages. Thats it.
You just give your page a ...
I was sitting in on a session at the O'Reilly Velocity Conference today, by Chris Blizzard of the Mozilla Foundati...
A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional code that is readable by barcode readers as well as camera phones.
QR Codes have been around since 1994, and every couple years seem to get heralded as the next big thing.
QR Codes can be used to link the offline world, with ...
Google Apps provides a very powerful document management solution, Google Docs.
With Google Docs you can upload and create many different types of documents. The ...
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I am making some adjustments to my Google Alerts today.
I removed a few and added a few alerts.
Here are my current Google Alerts:
call for papers
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open API
REST API
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I'm working through some 100K views of the API service provider arena, and trying to evolve my perspectives of Whats Next for APIs.
This is all a work in progress, so I'm publishing here on kinlane.com instead of on apievangelist.com.
I wrote the other day about ...
My 10 year old daughter Kaia and I were chatting last night about a old family friend that is coming to visit. She hasn't seen him since she was three years old.
He showed up to the house, and she got back on chat and told me she doesn't remember him at all. She described what he looked like, and said she doesn't know him.
I went to my Flickr ...
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Apple's new iCloud platform provides a centralized cloud storage solution for managing documents from any computer and iOS device.
iCloud document storage is not just cloud storage. It provides a complete document management solution that keep...
