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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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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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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

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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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

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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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. What Twitter certainly got right was making itself a narrowly defined platform with an open API and encouraging all of the data that flows through its system to be open. Along with Facebook and Twitter investments (see below) this wave is more diverse but no less speculative.

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