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Kin Lane

Managing Print Files with Box.net

As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I've identified as a Mimeo.com partner platform is
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Cloud Printing with Box.net

I'm publishing some recent work I've been doing with the cloud storage platform Box.net. Box.net provides enterprise class, cloud storage services, and their developer program and the OpenBox platform makes it easy to integrate commercial printing servi...
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Brochure & Flyer Printer with Box.net and Mimeo Connect

As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I've identified as a Mimeo.com partner platfo...
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Bound Document Printer with Box.net and Mimeo Connect

As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I've identified as a Mimeo.com partner platform is Read more →
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What Really Caused the Amazon Web Services Outage?

Amazon released a summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS service disruption in the US East Region today. These so caled stuck volumes and stuck EC2 instances, well those were mine. Right after midnight on April 21st I was working on one of my harvest tools, which pulls feeds f...
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DeltaCloud API as a Service

The DeltaCloud API provides a single API interface to work with multiple cloud computing providers. With theDeltaCloud API you can start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another onAmazon EC2 or Read more →
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Github Releases New API Version

kinlane-productionkinlane-productions2 Github has released version 3.0 of their API. Using the new Github API users canmanage labels, issue comments, mile...
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Create 3D Models from Images for 3D Printing

3D printing innovators Shapeways has released a new concept in 3D Printing. Image Popper is a new tool that allows y...
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My Daughters Kaias New Startup

My 10 year old Kaia is starting a business.  kinlane-productions2 If you live in South Eugene, OR....let me know. I got the hookup!
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Instaper Pulls Free Version from App Store

Instapaper pulled its free version of its IPhone app from the Apple App Store over a month ago...and well, sales of the paid app are fine. Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper just tweeted: "
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Google Sketchup and 3D Cloud Printing

I'm doing a lot of researching and thinking about the future of commercial printing, 3D printing, and manufacturing. Yesterday I was brainstorming on 3D printing and manufacturing with Google.
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Research: 3D Printing and Manufacturing with Google

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, ...
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Amazon Web Services Outage Impact

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 →
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Amazon Should Pull Plug Regularly to Show Which Companies Do Not Have It Together

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...
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Data.gov Budget Cuts Update

Sunlight Foundation sent out an update on Data.gov, USASpending.gov and the IT Dashboard budget cuts today. Due to support of...
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Convert Word and Powerpoint File to PDF with Google Docs API

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 →
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Wharton Business School Launches Digital Press

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and its online business journal Knowledge@Wharton has launched the Read more →
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Google Docs Adds Pagination and Native Printing

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 →
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Open Source Manufacturing, Web APIs, and 3-D Printing

I just finished reading, Will 3-D Printing End Mass Manu...
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Art: 3-D Print a Figurine of Yourself

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 ...
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Google Releases Two New APIs for Chrome Extensions

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

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...
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Mimeo Cloud Printing Building Blocks

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...
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The Irony of Cutting Budget for Data.gov

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 →
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OAuth 2.0 Support for Google Cloud Print

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...