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This is another post in my API Ideas series, I'm posting all my ideas for applications that could be built using the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. Instagr.am a popular Photo sharing IPhone applications has ...

This is another post in my API Ideas series, I'm posting all my ideas for applications that could be built using the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. Infographics are becoming a c...

I'm building the API area for the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API currently. When it is ready, I will need developers. I will need developers to write code samples, working on internal projects and be available to work on partner projects. I can't wait to build momentum and attract developers. I need dekinlane-productions2 ...

I'm still working on the deployment of the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API area. In the mean time I am preparing a lot of content to publish when its ready. I am noticing that code samples are common elements across my blog post, application directory and even some of my print ideas. Some code samples stand on their own, but most are inter...

Last week Facebook expanded the information available to external websites and applications to include profile address and mobile number. Ummm....Not Cool. Today they responded with: Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this d...

I have a central keyword list that I use as a reference on a daily basis. I track these keywords across many tools from Google Reader, Google Webmaster, Read more →

On my hunt for killer scripts and tools to go with with my Cloud Print API, I came across a way cool JQuery Flipbook script over at codecanyon. Read more →

I know very little about the Print industry. As I'm learning I find myself applying my programming and IT background to everything. Currently I'm prototyping a Cloud Print platform that provides 2 step commercial Read more →

Now the PDF we pulled from Scribd is proofed. With the Product ID returned from the Mimeo Proof Service we can get the details of the proof. We need to make a second call to the Proof Service and Get the Proof. $root_url = "connect.sandbox.mimeo.com/2010/09/"; $user_name = "[user name]"; $password = "[user password]"; $rest = new MimeoRESTclient($root_url,$user_name,$password)...

I have checked out and downloaded code from plenty of github repositories. I've even help manage a couple of private repositories for clients. I have never actually shared an open source repository before. A virgin of sorts. I posted the Read more →

This call returns an XML response containing relevant file information: <rsp stat="ok"> <download_link>http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/2kjfqelznknvkv5.pdf?t=1284562355 </download_link> <title> The Future of Reading and Publishing is Social </title> <page_count>4</page_count> <height>792</...

I am taking some time and writing down my image management strategy to share with Audrey. I have a specific process and set of tools I use to manage images I use across my Kin Lane Blog, API Evangelist Blog and my Twitter, LinkedIn...

Being the big data geek I am, I'm pretty excited that Google has integrated BigQuery with Google Apps Script and Google Spreadsheets. This means you can take power of BigQuery for storing and querying of very large data sets and combine them using Google Apps Scripts with any of your Google Spreadsheets. With a simple query Google...

Quora has exposed a JSON-based data API that allows users to access data about a currently logged-in user. To request particular fields about the currently logged-in user, you can add fields to a query string and append to http://api.quora.com/api/logged_in_user. kinlane-prkinlane-productions2 Currently supported fields include: Read more →

I am intrigued of any patterns or art you can extract from Big Data. I have been fascinated by the art of fractal mathematics since my 7th grade social studies teacher introduced me to them in 1984. Her boyfriend w...

Course Description: Data mining is used to discover patterns and relationships in data. Emphasis is on large complex data sets such as those in very large databases or through web mining. Topics: decision trees, neural networks, association rules, clustering, case based methods, and data visualization. The following chapters from the textbook will be covered i...

There are as many definitions of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the major theme is that a Public Cloud provides IT resources that are provisioned remotely from the consumer and operated by a third party. In a Private Cloud, the infrastructure policies are governed by a single organization where workloads and data can be moved to and from internal and external data centers. Private Clouds provide an organization a single point of control for security, manageability, p...

Here is a brief example of how APIs can quickly deliver value in every day business. I wanted a way to evaluate the content of bookmarks using my Pinboard (anti-social) application So I employed the Read more →

Mining of Massive Data Sets is a book evolved from material developed over several years by Anand Raja- raman and Jeff Ullman for a one-quarter course at Stanford. The course titled Web Mining, was designed as an advanced graduate course, although it has become accessible and interesting to advanced undergraduates. ...

I was just reading Setting Government Data Free with ScraperWiki from ProgrammableWeb. It led me to start playing with ScraperWiki: Read more →

Twitter has a business center setup to help people make the most of Twitter for their business. You can find tools, starting with the basis: What is Twitter? Twitter Glossary