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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud. That is where a web API comes in. Just as the power of crowds has populated the social content repositories of Web 2.0 — YouTube videos, Facebook updates, tweets, and more — the web API enables designers and developers to re-purpose the body of knowledge that is the cloud.

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Google Summer of Code: 55 million lines of code released since 2005

The Next Web

” We had a couple of APIs at the time. Here’s the money quote: During a strategy meeting, where you announce new websites inside the company, I said to Larry [Page], “We need to put compliance stuff up, but I’m also going to put up information on file formats and interfaces into the company.” Sounds good.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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What really sets PhoneGap apart is that it lets developers create a full-functioning mobile web app but place that app in a native wrapper, so that it can use native device APIs and get submitted to the App Store or Android Market. It would be nice to go to HTML 5 if this whole API thing sorts itself out.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

kind of like you “plug into” data.world (and we have a full set of APIs to back that up). We were in Cabo San Lucas in April 2005 using our last few weeks of vacation at Coremetrics before I left to take the plunge to start Bazaarvoice with Brant Barton. only around three retailers had customer reviews on their websites in 2005.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. I even worked on the AdWords API team as an intern at Google. (Powered by LaunchBit ). Tweet. --> This is a guest post from Robert Graham — a solo bootstrapper who blogs about the experience. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google. It was great.

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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

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Like the previous spreadsheet, FacebookFans is a Google macro based on Facebook API. The script requires your own Twitter API key (which is pretty easy to get), and provides easy-to-follow set up instructions. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Copy the spreadsheet here.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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