api | Kris Smith has read these articles about "api" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "api" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpThe Argument for Neglecting Laid-Off Workers- January 16, 2008 Steven Landsburg has a provocative op-ed in the New York Times today. Essentially, he says that we should do absolutely nothing about American workers who are on the losing side of globalization: All economists know that when American jobs are outsourced, Americans as a group are net winners. What we lose through lower wages is more than offset by what we gain through lower prices... Suppose, after years of buying shampoo at your local pharmacy, you discover you can order the same...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/marketmovers/~3/217712518/the-argument-for-neglect... Openads Adds $15.5 Million in VC Funding- January 16, 2008 London-based Openads has raised a new round of funding totaling $15.5 million, bringing their total raised funding to $20.5 million. Openads (formerly known as phpadsnew) is a free, ad server for Web publishers. From the press release: "The $15.5 million investment was led by Accel Partners, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners and O&39;Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The company will use the funds to accelerate product...http://www.centernetworks.com/openads-raises-15-million-funding-round Why we're going to FastCompany.tv- January 16, 2008 Ahh, Andy Plesser broke my career news again (he was the guy who broke my news about leaving Microsoft too). Louis Gray got the story first, though, I think, although I told dozens of people at the BlogHaus last week at CES. First of all, thanks to John Furrier, James McCormick, and the entire PodTech team. I grew a lot over the past year due to the opportunities they gave me and that turned into hundreds of interviews on ScobleShow.com. Wednesday (today) Rocky Barbanica and I are moving to...http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/16/why-were-going-to-fastcompanytv/ Oversee.net Gets a $150 Million Injection of Private Equity- January 15, 2008 Domain-name holding company Oversee.net is getting a $150 million cash infusion from private equity firm Oak Hlll Capital Partners. Oversee has been on a buying spree lately, snapping up domain auctioneer SnapNames for $35 million last October and domain registrar Moniker for $65 million a couple weeks ago. It also owns more than two million domain names, and no doubt will keep buying more. Overesee operates domain marketing services, including DomainSponsor, Revenue.net, and Low.com...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/217130541/ Target Snubs Offended Parent Who Blogs- January 15, 2008 Preface: I swear that I'll stop writing about stupid things that Target does as soon as they stop doing stupid things. Perhaps I hold Target to a higher standard than other companies At this point, I think it's the misalignment between Target's positioning as the do-gooder, family-friendly, cooler alternative to Wal-Mart that leads to issues when they misstep. They also seem to be hyper-sensitive about their brand. They decide what's cool. You buy it. No questions asked. They don't seem ready...http://www.thedeets.com/2008/01/14/target-snubs-offended-parent-who-blogs/ 33 MegaPixel TV in 2015- January 14, 2008 psyph3r writes "The Japanese communications ministry is investing in a new broadcast display technology with NHK to launch a 33 million pixel, 24-point surround-sound broadcast standard by 2015. The standard will use a video data rate of 24Gbps and an audio data rate of 28Mbps. This must be surreal in person."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Tags: rate broadcast data standard surroundhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/216528617/article.pl Video Ad Network Tremor Media Raises $11 Million B Round- January 14, 2008 Canaan Partners and Masthead Venture Partners led an $11 million B round in Tremor Media, an ad network that runs video ads streaming in other videos and in banner ads as well. This brings the total raised by the New York City startup to $19.4 million, including a series A in September 2006. Canaaan and Masthead led that round as well. Tremor's video ad network reaches a cumulative 92 million people across more than 800 publishers. According to comScore, it is one of the top-20 ad networks by.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/216453365/ 600 Web APIs- January 14, 2008 600 web APIs. That's how many different open web service APIs are now listed in the ProgrammableWeb directory. Given that it's the new year and we just crossed that next threshold it's a good time for a quick review. Growth in 2007: Last year was a busy one for new APIs with over 250 new APIs added. We saw a distinct increase in the last quarter and we're seeing lots more this January compared to the same time last year. (On a related note, see Bungee Lab's Alex Barnett's recent look at 8...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProgrammableWeb/~3/216276582/ Who Protects Your Cloud Data- January 13, 2008 Back in April, we speculated about one of the hidden dangers of depending on web services to store your data: the possibility that no one was doing backups. Now that possibility may have turned to reality for users of Omnidrive (once touted as the clear leader in the online storage field by TechCrunch). The service has been offline for some days, with its servers currently not responding at all. A December article at ReadWriteWeb contains serious allegations of fraud from the company's ex-CTO...http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/who-protects-your-cloud-data/ Here we go again: CES and Macworld to overlap in 2009- January 13, 2008 Filed under: CES, Misc. Gadgets Oh dear lord, we aren't even through this year's CES Macworld one-two punch and we just happened upon some distressing news for the 200,000+ tech trade show-goers and media that attend both: they're overlapping in 2009. AGAIN. Granted, things appear to be a little different this time around -- Steve and the Cupertino crew will be firing the first shots on Tuesday, January 6th, with Macworld continuing through Friday the 9th, while CES opens up on Thursday, the...http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/215950777/ |