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I’m continuing my research into how various cities operate their developer meetups, with a focus on mobile developer gatherings. Today I’m focusing on New York City, a town that is fast becoming a contender with Silicon Valley for developer talent.
I went through the meetups ...
I’m spending time profiling eight of the top developer markets in the country. My goal is to profile the building blocks of cities that have healthy developer communities, and from the research write several blog posts, and a white paper that will help other underserved communities unders...
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,
I was reading a report commissioned by Google and conducted by Ipsos MediaCT in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, called Our Mobile Planet.
You can find the report at
This summer its been 2 years since I started API Evangelist. API Evangelist started as my research project into the Business of APIs, and became a full time career.
While over the last two years I’ve worked for clients like Mimeo and
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 sol...
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 gi...
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 sky...
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 19 ...
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...
The open data platform Socrata just released a new cloud mapping software called 
I just pushed an update for the
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’m spending more time building, what I’ve dubbed the <...
I’m doing more research for my Local, Mobile, Social Stack, and spending some...
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 busi...
I wanted a way to make the rich content available via CityGrid APIs accessible to anyone, even if you weren't a developer.
CityGrid has some great 
