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AWS Marketplace Applications Now Available With 1-Click Deployment In Sydney
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Excerpt: AWS Marketplace applications are now available to all customers using the AWS Sydney Region with 1-Click Deployment for building solutions and running their businesses. Customers can easily find, compare, and immediately start using the software listed in AWS Marketplace, and experience lower latency when deploying in Sydney. Over 100 software products for production, testing and development purposes are currently available, including MongoDB, aiCache, Citrix Netscaler, F5, MicroStrategy and others. Sellers continually add new AWS Marketplace products for deployment the AWS Sydney Region. For more information or to find software on AWS Marketplace, visit: http://aws. amazon.... read the full post.
Tags: Apps, AWS, International
Energy Department Announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners
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Excerpt: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to expand access to data and reduce fuel costs for consumers, the Energy Department today announced the winners of the Apps for Vehicles Challenge.   The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort.   The Department awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize.   Green Button Gamer, based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and while Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Energy Department, Federal Government, opendata
Flashlight apps, location and why consumers still don’t understand privacy
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Excerpt: The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it up? It’s not out of curiosity or even necessarily to be helpful – although if you are lost in the dark, letting someone know your location might be a good thing. It is the hallmark of a mobile app economy that’s based on a simple value-exchange: you get a useful app for free or next to nothing and in return the app provider collects your user data to monetise it in some way. In the Iron Age, people thought that exchanging goods for little round bits of metal was nothing short of a con. Bartering was the order of the day.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Apps, Privacy
Flashlight apps, location and why consumers still don’t understand privacy
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Excerpt: The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it up? It’s not out of curiosity or even necessarily to be helpful – although if you are lost in the dark, letting someone know your location might be a good thing. It is the hallmark of a mobile app economy that’s based on a simple value-exchange: you get a useful app for free or next to nothing and in return the app provider collects your user data to monetise it in some way. In the Iron Age, people thought that exchanging goods for little round bits of metal was nothing short of a con. Bartering was the order of the day.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Apps, Privacy
The Facebook Gaming Ecosystem: A Cross-Sectional Study Of The Top-Rated Apps
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Excerpt: Services like Appdata have been providing individual stats about gaming apps for a long time, but snapshot-like analyses of top-rated games on Facebook’s App Center have not yet been done. What follows is a cross-sectional study of top-rated gaming apps in the Facebook App Center.  Such a study could be useful for game developers or strategic investors who have a stake in Facebook games and want a macro picture of where the ecosystem stands at the moment. About My Data Set Those interested can access the entire data set here. It is comprised of 855 top-rated apps from the game categories available in the Facebook App Center.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Facebook, Games, Gaming
Panoptix App Developer Program: What APIs would you like to see
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Excerpt: At last November’s launch, the Panoptix App Developer Program provided building and meter APIs. Earlier this year we added AHU and VAV APIs. In the near future we will announce the availability of a Utility Bill API. We will continue to expand the API set to meet the needs of our partners. This could be additional HVAC equipment, weather stations, or other entities involved in building efficiency. As the product manager for the Panoptix platform, I’d like to get some feedback from you. What information are you looking for from the Panoptix platform? What information is critical for you to extend your current applications, or to support new applications?   Why is this important or of value to you?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, APIs, Apps, Buildings, Developer, Home, Idea, Panoptix, Showcase
Crowdsourcing Localization with Google Apps Script
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Excerpt: Ever since we launched Appogee Leave — the first tool in the Google Apps Marketplace for tracking employees’ absences and time off — customers have been asking, “Can you support my native language? ” Our partners offered to help crowdsource the translation, but it was a challenge to know where to begin.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Blog, Developer, Google, Google Apps Script, Googlereader, Ifttt, Scripting-Platform
Apps Script Rewind
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Excerpt: Sometimes you just want to sit uninterrupted at your keyboard, bashing out a clever Apps Script to automate your life and your work … but sometimes you want to see how Google experts approach the tough problems. Sometimes you want to draw on other Apps Scripters for inspiration or help. That’s why the Apps Script team — and many other developer-focused teams at Google — record Google Developers Live episodes in which we highlight a specific topic and drill down to discuss it in detail. We also hold regular livestreamed office hours via Google+ Hangouts, which we post on YouTube afterwards. In these office hours, we discuss recent releases and give in-depth tutorials on topics interesting to Apps Script users.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Blog, Developer, Google, Googlereader, Ifttt, Scripting-Platform, Story
Why In-App support is the only way forward for the App Economy..
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Excerpt: Everyday, every minute we use iPhones and iPads to get things done. We use it on our way to work to check in on the day’s agenda and while on the train to read news. And more than talking, more than texting, it is evident that our daily phone time is used on apps, something which wasn’t even a part of mainstream imagination just a few years ago. The Economy that Apple Built Today, the mobile-app industry is peaking. More handheld apps are sold everyday than desktops. And leading the revolution has been Apple’s iOS. Apple’s smartphone operating system has more than 750,000 applications that can run on several generations of its iDevices.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Apps, Mobile, Story, Support
Mimvi and Mashape to Offer Mobile App Search API to Developers
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Excerpt: Mimvi has announced today an agreement with Mashape to distribute Mimvi's mobile app search and recommendation APIs.  Quoting from the press release - A key component of the agreement is a revenue sharing plan for the distribution and monetization of Mimvi's APIs. [. ] It provides developers acccess to world-class technology. this includes matching mobile apps to content consumed by their users for a richer mobile-first experience, or supplying mobile app search results to websites, mobile products and services. We are very excited with this partnership, and we hope you guys are too!  We'll keep you posted when the API documentation is finalized.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Apps, Googlereader, Ifttt, Mashape, Mimvi, Voice

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