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I was talking with a friend of mine recently about his job search. We were talking about different ways employers ask you to demonstrate your skills while interviewing. Some make you take tests, some want code examples, and some just expect you to sell yourself.
My number one way to demonstrate my skills is through my blog. It not only is a quick way to demonstrate my skills to prospective employers, it also attracts employers that I do not apply to.kinlane-productions2kinlane-product...
Twitter released a brand new twitter.com today with all kinds of new features. The feature that really stands out for me is now the main twitter.com web site runs off the Twitter API.
The Twitter mobile site and Twitter Iphone and IPad apps all run using the Twitter API, but now the most popu...
Seed funding and startups isn't something I normally write about on my blog. I tend to be more vocal about the technology, than the money.
Through exposure from Audrey and the ReadWriteStart Channel I am paying more attention to this world again. I have plenty of business planning exposure from working at Palo Alt...
Here are Fred Wilson's 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps from the February 2010 Future of Web Apps Miami conference.
You can watch the video and get the full transcript over at Think ...
I am walking through the Box.net OpenBox Developer area tonight. Box.net offers a pretty robust set of API for managing files and content on the box.net platform.
It is a great example of a very robust API. They get you started with:
Introduction to OpenBox Actions
Getting Started Guide for API
Easy Sig-nup
Project Setup Page...
I was happy to see the announcement by Google, that they were open sourcing more of the Google Wave platform.
I was at the keynote speech where they released Google Wave, and I really believed in the potential of it as a platform.
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The code they released adds more features and delivers a more complete "Wave in a Box" solution.
This pro...
I have been reviewing a lot of APIs lately. I"m evaluating their potential for integration into applications.
As I'm going through I"m also evaluating how they deliver t...
In addition to adopting Gist, I have quickly adopted a new tool that shows you rich contact profiles right inside Gmail. It is called Rapportive.
I have h...
I once quit a job because I got called into a meeting where the agenda was to discuss having too many meetings.
I am needing more programmatic control over my Amazon EC2 environment. I am rebuilding all server instances on my Amazon Web Services network.
I needed to reconfigure using EBS Volumes for file and data storage, and upgrade the operating system...
I had a chance to play with the AlchemyAPI I came across today. AlchemyAPI is a semantic tagging and text mining Application Programming Interface (API).
I can parse any document or web page and tell you what words exist in the content. I can tell you which words are most used or potentially meaningful in the content.
What I would like to have is more meaningful sets of key phrases and tag sets that are specific to certain topics and industries.
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I have a "hobby" harvesting project going on right now. I'm am harvesting several thousand web pages from various locations on a certain topic.
I'm not really interested in the content itself, but the top keywords that are used in the content. I pulled the page and extracted the body content that I am interested in analyzing.
I then want to pull a list of the top keywords and key phrases used in the page.
So I am faced with next steps:
Spen...
A positive feedback loop can occur whenever an API becomes popular, it keeps becoming more and more popular due to network effects.
The most important network effects are:
API gets support by partners
API gets support by vendors
Developers are more likely to already know how to use it.
This feedback loop and network effect are the momentum you need to create in your API community.
I'm working through this thought ...
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I am still processing a great post at High Scalability called, Scaling an AWS infrastructure - Tools and Patterns. They cover several tools you can use to take advanta...
I was reading a good post on getting your API right. They propose following these rules when developing your API:
