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More on the Blackberry Partners Fund
Posted from The Post Money Value 3 hours ago
For those of you interested, I've guest blogged over at www.berryreview.com with a post on the fund. Thanks to Ronen Halevy for letting me do it. (original story)
40 Video APIs on ProgrammableWeb
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 3 hours ago
The world of video APIs continues its impressive surge, with 40 APIS now listed on ProgrammableWeb, up from the 30 video APIs profiled in February and more than double the 19 video APIs from last fall. And more video mashups appear every week, now with 340 video mashups listed. (original story)
3 Ways to Improve Your Map Mashup
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 3 hours ago
Map mashups continue to be extremely popular, as evidenced by the high percentage of mapping APIs in our API Directory and map mashups in our Mashup Directory. Whether you're just getting started with map mashups, or you're a veteran map mashup developer, there are several tools out there that can h... (original story)
UK Government Offers New £20,000 Mashup Prize
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 3 hours ago
Last month reported on how the UK government has established the Power of Information Task Force to lead a massive data sharing effort aimed at fostering social and economic progress by enabling widespread access to government data. (original story)
Calgoo - How Bad do you Want Free
Posted from The Post Money Value 3 hours ago
As you may have read from various sources, Calgoo has dropped the subscription model and is going for the advertising gold by inserting ads in your calendar. Calgoo, is a calendaring sharing/syncing application which isn't a bad way to deal with lots of calendaring issues... (original story)
Yahoo Fire Eagle Geo-Location Service Goes Public
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 3 hours ago
After much anticipation since its private beta release in March, Yahoo! has made Fire Eagle publicly available. Fire Eagle is an open geo-location platform that allows users to broadcast their geographic location to the Web while at the same time giving the the ability to easily control how and on ... (original story)
Ruh Oh - Time for a butt whoppin (mine)
Posted from The Post Money Value 3 hours ago
I love the smell of my ass frying in the morning..not. Okay, so I put up a post trying to make a point about people going to far with the BS vs. just using the phrase I don't know. I enhanced what goes on in... (original story)
New Dell PCs look like an old concept, but still cool
Posted from PVRblog 3 hours ago
Over three years ago, I blogged about some really cool looking home theater PCs. I thought they looked terrific (still do) and they were a refreshing approach to something that might sit in your living room. Looks like Dell is... (original story)
IMedExchange: Makes Sense to Me
Posted from The Post Money Value 3 hours ago
Over at alarm:clock, Jon Burke reported on IMedExchange raising some angel funding. As Jon reported, this is closed system with only practicing physicians being allowed to participate. Without making some long tail analogy, the basic premise simply makes sense. All doctors on all aspects of... (original story)
Yahoo’s Best BOSS Search Mashups
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 3 hours ago
Last month Yahoo! announced BOSS, its Build Your Own Search Service, which "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search." The REST API allows developers to get results in XML or JSON form... (original story)
NPR Wants Suggestions for Their Next API Version
Posted from ProgrammableWeb 3 hours ago
Last month we welcomed the new NPR API from National Public Radio (NPR), an internationally acclaimed media production and distribution non-profit best known for a wide array of non-commercial radio programs. Now they want your input on the next release. (original story)
Dave Niehaus in the Hall of Fame
Posted from Proudly Serving My Corporat... 3 hours ago
Dave Niehaus, the Mariners play-by-play announced for their entire existence, was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame. Actually, it wasn't quite clear exactly what status he was being awarded. The newspaper (and the Mariners, in announcing a Dave Niehaus bobblehead next weekend) referred to him ... (original story)
The Daily Show and their TiVos
Posted from PVRblog 3 hours ago
How does The Daily Show compile all their amazing clips of politicians saying one thing one day, and the opposite thing several months before? From a long New York Times profile of Jon Stewart and his operation of the show:... (original story)
Create a Tour of Web Pages with Agglom
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 3 hours ago
Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldn't be as tricky as it is. Sometimes you're on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isn't a handy way to bring people along with you from page to page and then let them have easy access to those pages after the conversation is through. Ent... (original story)
The Future of the Desktop
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 3 hours ago
Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Baseca... (original story)
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