Has it been almost a year already since SXSWi? Time flies when you're growing, innovating and having fun! We're in the throes of planning this year's Circus Mashimus and finalizing the sponsors and activities for this year. Keep an eye out for announcements coming soon about sponsors and activities!
Now that the dust has settled, and I have sifted through my bag of schwag, from CES 2012. It’s time to retrospect on what I got from days of gadgetry in Las Vegas.
As many have mentioned already, CES 2012 focused on ‘Smart’ devices. Items we used on a daily basis, from televisions to clothes washers are now considered “Smart”.
Great API docs get partners quickly building with your API fast. Bad ones mean partner quickly leave your API for dead. Join Mashery for a webinar about how companies from USA TODAY and Klout to ASOS and Edmunds are using Mashery I/O Docs to offer interactive API documentation that not only engages partners, but also makes it easy to present docs that are accurate and up-to-date.
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST.
Transformed over the last decade by the Internet and mobile devices, the newspaper industry is now being reshaped by another force: APIs. Recently, Programmable Web posted about the growing number of newspaper APIs , and Mashery has seen a growing number of newspapers sign on as clients. Why are media companies so hot for APIs?
Where are you? Oh, and where are your friends, and where is that bar they’re meeting up at tonight? In recent years, more and more apps are answering these questions, which means more and more developers are looking for geolocation APIs.
A few weeks ago we collaborated with appMobi by building some demo apps featuring several Mashery Network APIs, including Rotten Tomatoes, Klout, Patch and Neustar. We just added another demo app featuring the Hotwire API, focusing on ...
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In today's news of Klout's $30-million, Kleiner-led funding round, we saw an incredibly interesting development: the use of API call volume as a proxy for company value. In particular, Klout CEO Joe Fernandez tells TechCrunch that monthly API calls is one of the key metrics the company tracks, and that Klout did 10 billion in December -- a 100x jump during 2011.
Before the Defrag conference, the API Hack Day crew held a day-long hackathon at Microsoft Bing’s office in Boulder. We’ve all heard the legend of TechStars, mentored startups born and launched from the mountains of Boulder. Several TechStars companies were part of the hackathon ...
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While many are traveling for the holidays, it seems that the Travel industry is doing double-duty as a top example on how to do API programs well.
According to news site Tnooz, this vertical in particular provides a prime example for other businesses and goes into detail on "Three Important Things the Travel Industry can teach the world about APIs."
Quick, what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think Washington, DC? - White House, Washington Monument, Smithsonian and a gazillion museums? All right answers about history and power, but now you can add "awesome developers" to your list.
