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These are news items I've curated in my Google Reader, Twitter and bookmarking using Pinboard. Sometimes I add a little commentary to each post.

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Join Us for the First-Ever Book Publishing Hackathon Next Week in NYC!

developer.pearson.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: I'm excited to announce that Pearson will be a sponsor and API partner for the first-ever book publishing hackathon in New York City next week.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Events

Sunlight Foundation: Open Data Executive Order Shows Path Forward

sunlightfoundation.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Open Data Executive Order Shows Path Forward by John Wonderlich May 9, 2013, 10:17 a. m.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Federal Government, Open Data

TestFlight now lets any developer upload Android apps, plans Android SDK launch in private beta

feedproxy.google.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: Popular app beta testing service TestFlight has announced that developers can now upload Android apps to its platform, and an Android SDK will launch next week for a small number of developers in private beta. Previously, Android app support was only available to a select few. Over the last 45 days, Testflight shared that 5,000 developers were granted access to the new feature and 4,500 apps were uploaded. Those apps have since been “downloaded more than 50,000 times. ” As shown in the image below, Android support has been merged directly into the TestFlight service; there’s now one place to upload and manage Android and iOS apps.... read the full post.

Tags: , Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Application Management, Application Testing

Twitter acquiring scalable computation startup Ubalo

www.zdnet.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: It's a busy day for mergers and acquisitions in the Bay Area today, and Twitter isn't going to be left out of the fray. The microblogging site is turning its focus on more complex infrastructure issues with the acquisition of scalable computation startup Ubalo. The Ubalo team confirmed the merger on its blog on Thursday, revealing only that Twitter agreed to acquire its technology and staff "a few days ago. " Financial terms of the deal have not been revealed. Based in Palo Alto, Calif. , Ubalo is touted to provide an easier method of handling large-scale computing.... read the full post.

Tags: , acquisitions, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Twitter

Video.js 4.0 is Now Available

feeds.brightcove.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: We are very excited to announce the release of Video. js 4. 0, now available for download, on Github and hosted for free on our CDN. As background, Video. js is an open source HTML5 video player created by the team at Zencoder, which Brightcove acquired last summer. Video. js is disrupting the market for open source video player technology and has seen tremendous adoption and market share in just a few years. The free Video. js player is used by tens of thousands of organizations, including Montblanc, Dolce & Gabbana, Diesel, Illy, Applebee’s, Mattel, Kellogg’s, Les Echos, US Navy, Aetna, Transamerica, Washington State University, and many others. Version 4.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Code LIbraries, JavaScript, Video

Yahoo acquires and shutters Google-ITA powered flight rewards app MileWise

feedproxy.google.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: Yahoo has acquired its second company of the day, Google-ITA powered flight rewards app MileWise. Just after it was revealed that GoPollGo had been snapped up and shut down by Yahoo, MileWise made its own announcement via its site. It says: “MileWise began almost four years ago with the goal of creating a simple, powerful product to help people and providers get the most value out of their rewards. Along the way, we’ve been lucky to connect with an incredible community of fellow travelers, without whom we wouldn’t have made it this far. To everyone who took MileWise for a spin: THANK YOU! You shared our vision of what MileWise could become, and generously donated your time and passion towards making it a reality.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Flights, Rewards, Yahoo

Yahoo acquires GoPollGo polling service, shuts down all widgets, polls and properties

feedproxy.google.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: Today GoPollGo announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo Mobile. The online polling company hadn’t reached its third birthday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The service that GoPollGo has operated will be shuttered, with the company noting that it will “no longer be supporting GoPollGo’s properties on the site, embeddable widgets or mobile app. ” The company cited its usership as in the millions. The reason for the pickup is likely talent, given that GoPollGo had developed a mobile version of its technology, and Yahoo is desperate to grow its ranks of mobile developers. As a firm, Yahoo is looking to shift its entire product line towards the mobile space.... read the full post.

Tags: , acquisitions, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Yahoo

Yesterday’s downtime and today’s slowness

blog.freshdesk.com on 05/09/2013

Excerpt: At Freshdesk, we know that our customers depend on us to support their customers. And we take our application availability and performance very seriously. However, we have had a very rough two days, with unexpected performance issues leading to a downtime yesterday that lasted for approximately 1. 34 hours. Starting from roughly 10:20 AM PST yesterday, some users started reporting serious performance issues. Our operations team immediately took to investigating the cause, and discovered that the system was repeatedly getting hung on a deadlock due to a suboptimal DB query hitting our database. By 11:15 AM users started reporting that the app was completely unavailable, and we started working on a work-around.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Stability

How PivotDesk used the Ruby Foursquare API to help Startups find office space | PivotDesk | Blog

blog.pivotdesk.com on 05/08/2013

Excerpt: For PivotDesk, working hand-in-hand with Foursquare makes perfect sense. We are an inherently location-based service, and integrating with Foursquare allows us to bring a wide range of benefits to our customers. Foursquare’s mobile app is especially enticing for us because we have focused on our desktop application and do not have a perfect mobile experience. The first idea that came to mind was to utilize the new Foursquare pages feature, so we created a Foursquare PivotDesk page. On our Foursquare page, we wanted to show off all of our amazing hosts. Each host is listed on Foursquare as what they call a Venue, which just means it’s a location that anyone can check into using the Foursquare app.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Foursquare, Office Space

Light Reading - Operators Cut AlcaLu Out of API Equation

www.lightreading.com on 05/08/2013

Excerpt: Sarah, At first I thought your comment regarding carrier finding a business model was limited to wireline and telco in particular but as I work on carrier network architecture across. Telco Alcatel-Lucent has been pursuing application enablement as a top-down initiative from the CEO since 2009, but the market has changed in the past four years, and the vendor is finding it no longer has a role -- or a business model -- for helping operators expose their application programming interfaces (APIs). In fact, Alcatel-Lucent isn't playing the role of intermediary between operators and developers at all any more.... read the full post.

Tags: , , Alcatel-Lucent, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack