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Widgets and other embeddable objects are the number one request we get at Mimeo Connect.
Everyone is busy these days, and they just need a quick way to enable users to build, purchase and print documents from a...
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As an evangelist for a print API, I often get asked, What are you doing working in a dying industry?
I don't see the print industry as dying, I see it as evolving. I often say that the largest and loudest sectors of print are making a lot of noise, and have trouble adju...
Google released a new Google Books API this week. The new Books API will allow developers to build mobile and web applications using the more than 15 million books titles available on books.google.com.
The Books API allows searching of books metadata, pricing and working with...
I was fortunate enough to attend the NY Tech Meetup last night at NYU while I was in town.
Interesting to see the startup energy in NY compared with Silicon Valley.
Anyways I got to see some cool startups and tech businesses:
APIs are transforming the way we print. I'm always looking for other APIs that compliment the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
I recently addedCrocodoc to our application directory. Crocodoc takes PDFs, Word documents, an...
I'm working to make it easier to get up and running using the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
One concept that is tough to understand at first, is that all printing starts with a Mimeo document.
Then using the API you can either order that document as is, or merge one or many PDF documents with it, generate a dynamic document, then order...
Aviary, a creator of web-based image editing tools, launched a new Effects API that can apply filters and utilities to photos via a RESTful interface.
What used to be done with server-s...
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Over the next few days google will be rolling out the ability to upload any file type to Google Documents List API for all accounts.
Previously only Go...
As technology rolls forward, there are many new concepts, but sometimes things we know from the past can also be reborn.
A new concept IPhone case from
I was just playing with a cool new, free photo collage tool called Photovisi.
With Photovisi you can select one of the many layout designs, add your photos and then customize by dragging items around.
After the co...
Google Translate is an amazing tool. It translates those random foreign web pages I run across, and those ever growing number of emails I receive from overseas.
I have 3 suggestions for Google to add:
Geek - Translate geek so I can...
One search term I've seen come up in my Google Analytics frequestly is:
Mimeo.com vs. Lulu.com
I wanted to help people u...
As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
One such platform that I've identified as a Mimeo.com partner platform is
I'm publishing some recent work I've been doing with the cloud storage platform Box.net.
Box.net provides enterprise class, cloud storage services, and their developer program and the OpenBox platform makes it easy to integrate commercial printing servi...
As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
One such platform that I've identified as a Mimeo.com partner platfo...
Amazon released a summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS service disruption in the US East Region today.
These so caled stuck volumes and stuck EC2 instances, well those were mine.
Right after midnight on April 21st I was working on one of my harvest tools, which pulls feeds f...
The DeltaCloud API provides a single API interface to work with multiple cloud computing providers.
With theDeltaCloud API you can start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another onAmazon EC2 or
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Github has released version 3.0 of their API.
Using the new Github API users canmanage labels, issue comments, mile...
3D printing innovators Shapeways has released a new concept in 3D Printing.
Image Popper is a new tool that allows y...
My 10 year old Kaia is starting a business.
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If you live in South Eugene, OR....let me know. I got the hookup!
Instapaper pulled its free version of its IPhone app from the Apple App Store over a month ago...and well, sales of the paid app are fine.
Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper just tweeted:
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I'm doing a lot of researching and thinking about the future of commercial printing, 3D printing, and manufacturing.
Yesterday I was brainstorming on 3D printing and manufacturing with Google.
I'm watching the future of manufacturing and printing unfold slowly in front of us. I'm paying attention to 3D printing solutions evolving from companies like Shapeways, MakerBot, ...
