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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 
StatusNet is a microblogging platform that can be installed on any server.
Think of it as your own private Twitter service.
StatusNet offers similar functionality to Twitter, but allows business and individuals to control their own services and data, while still inter-operating with existing microblogging platf...
I'm noticing a pattern of simple new web applications that focus on solving a single problem.
This new generation of web applications are adhering to the core principles of Software as a Service (SaaS).
They provide tools in 3 formats:
Web Interface
Widgets and Embeddable Objects
Application Programming Interf...
The Mimeo.com and Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API allows anyone to print documents in the clouds and have them delivered to their home or business the next day.
Mimeo.com + Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API =
Computing is moving online. With the introduction cloud computing, more business are moving their documents online.
Cloud storage providers allow uploading, editing, collaboration and exporting of documents through web sites, desktop software and mobile applications.
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Mimeo Cloud Printers support PDF print files stored in the clouds, and the building of print documents with these files.
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Mimeo Cloud Printers also enable ordering of any document that is submitted.
When a user prints to a cloud printer, they will receive delivery options for their print order. The Mimeo Cloud Printer r...
Mimeo.com is an innovator of online, on-demand document printing and distribution.
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Mimeo.com provides the ability to upload print files and build many common document types:
Presentations
Manuals
Brochures
Bookl...
REST is simplifying APIs. Its opening up APIs to casual developers and beyond.
Recently Google and Apigee have released API explorers. These tool...
I've been proofing documents with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
Now I want to start just uploading print files into my Mimeo account.
I added support for posting files to the Mimeo REST client.
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I was looking for a network device discovery tool.
I want something that will run at the command line on multiple platforms.
I came acrossFing from Overlook.
Fing is acommand line tool for network and ser...
I was attracted to my current job as the Mimeo Connect API evangelist because of the challenges associated with a print API.
You have a collision of a dying industry and a game changing new technology. I thought...this has to be a learning experience. So I pursued the job.
First thing I learned: Print isn...
As I'm working on different cloud printing solutions I am considering the practical use of these technologies in conjunction with Mimeo commercial printing.
One area I see a very practical use of cloud printing, is developing a commercial cloud print queu...
I came across a great walk through of how to deploy your code from GitHub automatically.
Having managed a large number of web applications derived from various code repositories, I see the value in this.
I used to write...
Rapportive, a social CRM service has added support for Bitbucket, GitHub, and Stack Overflow.
Rapportive adds a social CRM layer to Gmail using Goo...
Today is the first birthday of the Google Apps Marketplace, and what better time to talk about the significance of application ecosystems.
I would call 
A while back I was playing around with the Box.net API, I wanted to see what services they offered.
I created a set of
Amazon Web Services just released two pretty significationenhancementsto the Amazon EC2 infrastructure.
You can now:
Change Instance Type -This means that...
Amazon Web Services has partnered with JumpBox to deliver a suite of hosted applications using Amazon Web Services.
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Using AWS and Jumpbox you can launch a:
Cyberduck, the open source FTP client has made some pretty significant updates including a version for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7.
Cyberduck has also added two more cloud storage providers:
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Mashape, the API framework and marketplace service provider has recently released some new features and resources for developers.
Additions include new language libraries and plugins:
Engineers in the UK are using 3D printing with a nylon powder to create a really cool, futuristic bicycle.
Guided by a comput...
I just had a new idea for a startup. I'm in love with everything about technology startups except actually starting another one myself.
So I kind of work the opposite of the rest of Silicon Valley, when I have an idea I just put it out there on the open Internet.
I'm reading 
Google launched a slick new Google Cloud Print Queue Manager. It allows you to manager your cloud printers and the print jobs in the queue.
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Its available at
ePrint is a service from HP that allows printing to select HP printers over the Internet.
When an HP web connected printer registers it gets an email address. Since printers receive print jobs by email, this enables printing to any HP web enabled printer that is connected to the Internet.
ePrint enables print...
