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A project I'm moving off the back-burner and into the public domain is a project I called Tech Blogger Analysis. My GF is Audrey Watters @ ReadWriteWeb, so I get exposed to an authors daily perspective in the tech blogging world.
I started harvesting all the RSS feeds from
Amazon CloudWatch has matured and now is available with a Freemium tier for monitoring your EC2 instance at no charge.
Amazon Cloudwatch allows you to monitor:
CPU Load
Disk Input / Ouput
Network Input / Output
For your Amazon EC2 instances. The data is collecte...
A project I'm moving off the back-burner and into the public domain is a project I called Google Reader Network.
Google Reader battles for #1 on my daily use tools, along with Gmail. I live in there each and every day. I depend on it for my information intake.
So my Google Reader network ...
Google is rapidly retooling many of the FREE applications we've come to know, and launching within the Google Apps cloud platform.
They released Google Alerts in the Google Apps area today, allowing you to setup alerts within your companies domain.
As the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API Evangelist, I get asked why I would be an evangelist for technology in a dying industry. Print and Publishing.
My primary argument is: Through new technology such as cloud computing, social media, and mobile the print and publishing industry will be redefined. We won't even recognize it as the old beast.
One example of this is Shapeways. Shapeways turns 3D designs and drawings to ta...
I spend a lot of time thinking about new ways to print as the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API Evangelist. During this time I see a common pattern; that print can create more meaningful, physical aspects of our online lives.
We create volumes of data through our social streams, online files, emails and other forms data in our daily online lives. Often times the photos and discussions become less valuable because they are so easy to create, so we lose interest in creating organizing pho...
I need to get an API area around my REST Cloud Print API. I have a functional set of RESTful cloud print services, but not much else.
Where do I start? I need a plan. I need to know exactly what it takes to get this API open for business. I built a list of what I need for phase 1-3 of my API area, from the essentials to nice to have.
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Now I know what I want...how d...
I have two Google Apps accounts. One for kinlane.com and one for apievangelist.com. I primarily have these Google Apps for the email. So I just route [email protected] and [email protected] to my [email protected] account.
I have been using my free Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar for several years. Even though Google Docs and Google Calendar are available in m...
I'm going through the my list of existing and potential self-publishing and print-on-demand applications. First on my list is the fotobooks the Facebook social print application.
Its a pretty straightforward app allowing you to organize photos from your Facebook alkinlane-productions2to books.
I've talked about the My Mimeo online print and publishing, and the My Mimeo Marketplace where you can publish documents for people to purchase. Now I feel I can actually introduce you to the Mimeo Connect Print API, now that you have an overview...
I just finished attending the Facebook Mobile Event, a press conference to inform everyone about several new mobile initiatives coming out of Facebook.
Primarily Facebook reaffirmed their commkinlane-productions2 updating their releases of Android, IPhone mobile apps and the SDK to support these platforms.
More specifically Facbook launched thre...
I feel I have a decent perspective of riding the waves of technological change, wisdom that has come from playing in the Internet world from day one.
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I drank the Microsoft Kool-Aid for a long time. Eventually in 2005 I started m...
As we continue to move computing off the workstation and servers and into the cloud, we need to recreate all the essentials of computing we are used to. APIs are how the next generation of computing essentials like email, print, DNS, and file system will be delivered in this environment.
As we distribute and virtualize our web sites, applications and other tools, APIs are playing an ever more increasing role in connecting these applications for us. A couple examples are:
I am in New York City this week kicking off my new career as the API Evangelist for Mimeo Connect.
Mimeo Conneckinlane-productions2r the Mimeo Print Platform. Before evangelizing about the API I have to talk about the Mimeo Platform for a bit. I have spent the week learning every...
Sencha just released a new GUI desktop application that enables designers to create rich media animations for HTML5 capable browsers.
Sencha Animator allows you to put objects such as text, shapes and images on to re-sizable areas and you can move, scale, skew and rotate objects in 2D or 3D and
It is now day two of being on my new Macbook Pro, and I am fine. I haven't used an Mac computer since high school. I am 38, so 20 years?
I have been a PC user my entire adult likinlane-productions2on a Mac from time to time to troubleshoot something, view a web site, or show my kids something (I bought them an IMac a few years back). Other than that...I've spent thousands of hours on Windows workstations and servers.
