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When I was being interviewed at Mimeo.com as the API evangelist, one big gap in my resume, that I was concerned about, was no print industry experience. Mimeo is a print company and naturally I should bring something to the table?
My boss simply replied, We want someone with the tech, not the print. Someone who can think...
Google has increased the file size limit of files stored in Google Docs, from 1GB to 10GB.
This increase, along with them opening up Google Docs to any file type, really establishes the platform as a viable cloud stora...
Here is a little reminder for all the startup hungry folks out there.
This is a dashboard widget for my debt consolidation, for all the credit card debt I racked up doing a startup called Social Media Squad.
I don't regret any of it. I learned so much, and it only failed because of the recession. If I had been able to ride another 4...
Google has added support for converting Powerpoint .pptx files to Google presentationswhen uploading using Google Docs or via the API.
Until now Google only supported the older versions of Powerpoint .ppt when uploa...
ViewsHound, a crowdpublished media site, has published work from over 1,000 authors in its first 10 weeks since launch, including over 230 authors, who have submitted at least 5 pieces of work a piece to ViewsHound.
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Netflix wrote an interesting post about making their systems, redundant and more fault-tolerant, while running in the Clouds. Since no single component in the cloud can guarantee 100% up-ti...
I'm playing around with Visual.ly, a infographics and data visualizations marketplace and builder that just launched.
Infographics and data visualizations are a great way to experience stories and create a new way of seeing the world of data, one that helps communicate complex ideas ...
The Newspaper Club, which focuses on how paper and printed media can be a natural part of the web, just launched a newspaper API.
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Photoduinois an open source camera controller based on theArduino platform.
It is designed to take photographs using various techniques such as time-lapses, high speed photography, photography ...
Like everyone else, I struggle with keeping track of my time. What projects did I work on, how much time did I spend researching, reading and writing each day.
I've used Bascamp, Microsoft Project and even spreadsheets to track time in the past. Each solution always starts the same. There is a honeymoon period where I keep everything up to date, and i...
The Gliffy API makes it possible for developers to add Glffy diagramming software to other web applications.
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The Gliffy API provides a RESTful web service and set of embeddable too...
Professor Manos Tentzeris from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed a new ulta-wideband antenna that is printed using an inkjet on paper or...
I came across a new tool this week called PDFMasher. PDFMasher converts PDF files containing text into HTML files.
Most e-Book readers support PDF file, but doesn't create a very good user experience because there is limit control over formatting, such as font sizes. PDF on e-Bo...
A team of researchers at MIT have developed a way to print solar cells, just like printing out of an office printer. Almost as inexpensive as printing a photo from your inkjet, the simple solar c...
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I'm spending time this week updating my social sharing buttons,
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 net...
I updated the sharing tools on blog.apievangelist.com today. Previously it had eight buttons, representing the top social network channels that drive traffic to the blog.
I'm changing it, putting emphasis on:
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Amazon sent me an email about the recent signing of the online sales tax law by California G...
I like how my Google account settings have evolved. Off the top toolbar, I click on my name, then account settings, you then get an option called data liberation. All apps accounts should have a data liberation option!
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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...
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 Cloud ...
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 po...
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 o...
