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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, ...

I wrote a post yesterday on the Amazon outage, and half jokingly saidAmazon Should Pull Plug Regularly to Show Which Companies Do Not Have It Together. Of course I don't think Amazon should do this, but I wanted to highlight Read more →

I am by no means an IT architecture specialist, although I have a lot of experience in this area. I have deployed infrastructure to support large conferences in single locations and across multiple global locations simult...

Sunlight Foundation sent out an update on Data.gov, USASpending.gov and the IT Dashboard budget cuts today. Due to support of...

I'm slowly packaging up all the code I've been writing lately for Google Docs Listing API. I am building quite a few bite size modules that do various things with Google Docs. kinlane-productions2 Today I cleaned up a piece of PHP code that will upload file to Google Docs using API, then export various file types. If it is a .doc file, it will convert to: Read more →

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and its online business journal Knowledge@Wharton has launched the Read more →

Google took another major step forward in positioning Google Apps as a document publishing platform. Google has added the ability to to see Read more →

I just finished reading, Will 3-D Printing End Mass Manu...

A group of innovators called BlablabLAB have integrated a Kinect with a 3-D printer to print personalized statues. BlablabLAB setup an interactive art installation on the streets of Barcelona, which allows users to stand in a structure ...

In the latest Chrome Beta release, Google made available two new experimental extension APIs: the Web Navigation and Proxy Extension APIs. Read more →

As I'm preparing to launch my new Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API area, I'm taking inventory of my ecosystem. Granted, its not a true "ecosystem" yet. I call it thakinlane-productions2y efforts will yield a self-sustaining cloud printing API ecosystem. Mimeo ecosystem areas are: M...

In preparation of my new Mimeo Connect API area I am assembling what I consider to be the core building blocks of cloud printing. My goal is to create projects that focus on key documents, platforms, and technologikinlane-productions2g. I am breaking them into several areas. Cloud Printing Technologies Mime...

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 I refuse to align myself with any political party. When I vote for president its always a vote for the lesser of two evils. My republican friends probably think I'm a liberal, my liberal friends probably think I'm aconservative. I'm pretty middle of the road. Even though I'm completely pissed off about Read more →

Up until now Google Cloud Print has only support the Google Client Login. Google Cloud Print now supports OAuth 2.0. The XMPP print job notification system does not yet recognize the OAuth to...

Google is moving forward with their vision of Cloud Printing in a much larger, comprehensive and decisive way compared with HP ePrint or Apple Airprint. They have rolled out...

Google is steadily moving forward with releases around the Google Cloud Print Platform. You have been able to print on mobile versions of Google Docs and Gmail, and on Chrome running on Windows since February. Today they released a Beta version of Read more →

I see a lot of speculation and talk about Google's social efforts compared to Facebook. Facebook is definitely a dominant player in this game, and everyone keeps waiting for a clear social move from Google. kinlane-productions2 The defining characteristic between these two players is Facebook is building a social network within a walled garden. Facebook launches fea...

I have been working on my Google Cloud Print Proxy software in PHP to make available for a wider audience. When I get more time I intend to work on Ruby and Python versions. Much of the work being done with the Google Clou...

The Data Science Toolkit is a collection of open source tools wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON interface, and available for download as a virtual machine image. Some of the tools included areBoilerpi...

For the last four months I've been on a pretty wild ride trying to find a solution to delivering the Mimeo Connect Print API and its community. I looked at the three major API service providers, Mashery, Apigee, and Read more →