www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

When smartphone apps first got popular, after Apples App Store was launched in July 2008 , they offered an immediate jump in functionality for mobile content. Compared to mobile sites circa 2008, iPhone apps were attractive and easy to use. In 2008, it may not have been possible to get the functionality you wanted via a mobile website.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Here at WePay, 2014 was a big year for us as well — we pivoted fully into our API business, introduced the industry’s first risk API, launched the first white label payments product with complete protection from fraud, and more than doubled our revenue. A lot happened! No big deal, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

It just so happened that while the mobile team redesigned the mobile site, the web team built the backend APIs. After the APIs were completed, then the web team worked on the website leveraging much of the mobile redesign work. At Posterous, the mobile and web developers are on separate teams. Posterous has taken off since then.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. I'm not sure that it makes sense to consider, say, PayPal's subpar API, as technical debt. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2015

Does it have appropriate API so that you can integrate it with front end billing system like WHMCS, HostBill, Blesta, etc? Does it support your preferred database server (MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012, etc.)? . • Does it provide direct user level access so that your end users can manage their hosting accounts themselves?

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

NET SDK The AppUp developer program launched support for.NET applications by releasing the.NET SDK, along with anIDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. The IDE Plug-insupports both the C/C++ and.NET SDK for Microsoft Windows when using Visual Studio 2008. More articles & blogs » POPULAR TAGS javascript google api apis node.js

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

Weather in July 2009 was a lot warmer than weather in July 2008. This is how software people think… develop and API and build an ecosystem, it’s not how utilities think and even though the ruling requires data to be made available I am concerned about how useful that data ends up being for third parties.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Diego Basch

JULY 30, 2012

The Twitter API allows requesting 100 user profiles with one call, so that means I had to issue 12,500 calls. Twitter limits API requests from a given IP address to 150 per hour (in practice sometimes less). It increased to 9 in mid-2008, and to 10 in 2010. In early Twitter times (i.e. Ok, enough numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. We all know that. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. Switching these customers directly to continuous deployment sounds harder than it really is.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2010

But during attendance at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco in 2008, the founders cottoned-on to the idea that publishers could benefit by adding a rich layer of social and other functionality to their sites. As Modular Patterns, the company initially focused on addressing a completely different problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). Still, these risks are thoroughly mitigated if you can iterate faster than either set of competitors - and, as a startup, you shouldnt have any excuse for allowing that to happen. For a specific application of this idea, see How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Think of the dozens of little API changes that are required when we want to pass new values through the system. In fact, most of the work involved with a new feature is not the user-visible parts of the feature itself.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Another important web 2.0

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Back in late 2008, I noticed that one of my Flickr contacts seemed to be short a few photos--like, a few thousand of them. Flickr has an API. S3 has an API. If you're interested in building ultra-scalable applications in the cloud, big data, APIs, and crawling, please drop Rob a line at info@backupify.com.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

When Windows Server 2008 R2 was launched, Microsoft built off the momentum with the release of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. Alternatively, an admin can manually run a synchronization from within the application. Microsoft AD FS. This can be managed efficiently via the on-premises utility.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

API calls returning list of friends, friend selectors, etc., Update, July 24, 2008: Facebook has made a choice. Giggly users want more self-expression tools, which Facebook won’t create because of concern about serious users, who will hate them and cry “ MySpace ”. Why not start from there?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Scheduled notifications, “become a fan”, “add to bookmark”, rewards for inviting their friends, asking for their emails, creating a tight community were more or less effective depending on the current trend and the Facebook API evolution. What works today might not work tomorrow because of a API change.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 17, 2008

Jun 17, 2008. Then, via the magic of the summize api and outside.in’s place detection algorithms, your tweet will be detected, matched to those locations, and will show up in people’s Radar in those areas. have an API for place detection? June 17, 2008 7:00 PM. June 18, 2008 6:54 AM. aweissman.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The company had just 1,00,000 registered users in 2008, which climbed to a staggering 4M registered users within a mere 15 month period, thanks to its straightforward referral program. The company is also said to have made the most of the recommended contact feature available in Gmail and Android APIs, which resulting in higher conversions.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API. This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. User Interface / User Experience.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

The services that Neocova provides include simpler contracts, API integrations and other options designed to enable banking and financial services on a local and community-based scale. These are far more cost-effective than the services offered to such clients by larger, more established core banking providers. Space exploration.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API. Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fast forward to almost 2008 and those days are gone. Amazon S3 - The Simple Storage Service This web service provides simple API for reading and writing objects into a virtual hash. Google Analytics is packed with features, but more importantly it has an API. Since when does Google Analytics have an API?

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

Can be as easy as [link] Leave a Reply Stack Exchange Network stackoverflow.com serverfault.com superuser.com careers meta api / apps area 51 Blog – Stack Overflow a programming community exploit Recently Datacenter Migration Oct. 23 When Will My Site Graduate? United States License. 21 queries. 0.148 seconds. United States License.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

API calls returning list of friends, friend selectors, etc., Update, July 24, 2008: Facebook has made a choice. should, by default, only return giggly friends for giggly apps and serious friends for serious apps. There should be a way to override this with some difficulty and user involvement. Why not start from there?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

He duly took it and vowed to start a company when his finished his third and final placement with RIM in December 2008. “That was the best piece of individual advice ever got in my life,” Livingston says. Kik Music: iTunes for your BlackBerry. The idea for Kik Music, which was initially called Unsycned, came directly from his time at RIM. “I

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

2008 FOLIO Award Winners. The breakdown: “Pinterest doesn’t have an open API yet, so data has been pretty limited. FOLIO: Staff. --> Suppliers. Webinars Events. Industry Events. MediaNext 2012. E-Media Summit -->. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Digital Magazines. -->.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Even if it helps optimize one stage, if it slows you down somewhere else, it might not be a net win. The hardest costs to cut are those that are embodied in sacred cows. Combining agile development with customer developm. Don't launch Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B in SaaS companies globally.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And just as Groupon unleashed a frenzy of daily deal sites after its launch in 2008, Birchbox helped make 2011 a year filled with new subscription services for just about everything. Birchbox didn’t discover the subscription product model when it launched in 2010, but it did make subscription service sexy. Torrents Lists. Travel Lists.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008. Optimizely In a quick survey of our startup-minded Twitter followers, Optimizely was far and away the most highly recommended resource for startup and developer A/B testing.

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