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.phporkut going more social- February 12, 2008 Posted by Amar Gandhi, orkut Group Product ManagerStarting this month, we're enabling developers to make their social applications available to orkut users. We'll start ramping up to more than 50 million people over the next few weeks.To prepare for this growth, we're now accepting social applications. For a while now, developers have been able to write, test, and play with applications on orkut. Later this month, however, we're going to start rolling them out to orkut users. OpenSocial...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/233302891/orkut-going-more-social.html Hedge Fund: Just Say No to Bailouts- February 7, 2008 As big banks scramble to form rescue plans for bond insurers, a hedge fund manger is trying to send the ambulances away. Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management has been betting on a collapse of the bond insurers for several years, has written to regulators, urging them not to support these efforts. In a letter to Federal Reserve and Treasury officials obtained by Portfolio.com, Ackman criticizes the bank bailout efforts that have been prompted by regulators, saying that...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/top5/~3/231133734/Hedge-Fund-Just-Say-No-to-Bailou... Tech Salary Datapoint of the Day- February 7, 2008 Jeff Bewkes is cutting back: Time Warner, seeking to cut costs and streamline operations, plans to split off AOL's Internet access business from its Web site and online advertising business and cut 100 jobs at its corporate unit, the company's new chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, said Wednesday... Mr. Bewkes's plan to lay off 100 people is expected to save $50 million at the corporate unit. It seems that the net cost of those 100 people at the "corporate unit", whatever...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/marketmovers/~3/231036093/tech-salary-datapoint-of... Google Launches Google Apps Team Edition- February 7, 2008 A few months ago I migrated all things Rev2 into Google Apps, and having a startpage, mail, documents, and calendar application at your finger-tips with your custom rev2.org has been magical to say the least. Now, Google plans to bring this magic and make it easier for schools, teams, and businesses to use the Google applications with the newly launched Google Apps Team Edition. Notably without Gmail (which is what makes the whole thing a breeze), Google Apps comes with Docs, Calendar, Talk,..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Rev2org/~3/230816992/ Funding the Semantic Web: Dapper's Ad Network Plan- February 6, 2008 The founders of the data extraction and API creation service Dapper announced this week that their aim is to leverage Dapper in the service of ad networks and derive a semantic index of pages around the web from that activity. They will launch their ad powering product at Ad:Tech in April. Essentially, it will perform ad funded indexing of the semantic web. Here's how it will work: Dapper lets users identify and tag particular fields on any page. It then extracts the value in that field and..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/230468408/dapper_funding_the_semantic_web.p... King.com Game Network Grows 138% in One Year- February 6, 2008 Gaming networks are all the rage, right From end users to advertisers, games have been one of the few application types to do well on the web and on mobile devices on nearly every front, and they continue to be the cause of feverish, productivity-killing addition, as we've seen with the Scrabulous video that was released earlier this week. King.com is among those companies that has seen a great deal of success, especially as of late, through its partnerships with the likes of Yahoo, and its.http://mashable.com/2008/02/06/king-growth/ zzzPhone Custom-Builds Your Cellphone To Order Cellphones- February 6, 2008 Why should you be able to custom-build your Dell or HP computer but not a cellphone That's exactly the problem this this zzzPhone is going to solve, by way of them having a factory in China that will custom-create a phone especially for you. Although the body will look exactly like the phone shown here, the internals are up for debate; GPS, 7-megapixel camera, 4GB internal memory, stereo speakers and Windows Mobile (or equivalent) operating system aren't out of the question. It even has two...http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/229896151/zzzphone-custom+builds-your-cellphone... Silicon Valley after a MicrosoftYahoo merger: a contrarian view- February 5, 2008 This post is not about the potential MicrosoftYahoo merger. Instead, let's just assume for the moment that Microsoft succeeds in its bid for Yahoo. What would a MicrosoftYahoo merger mean for startups in Silicon Valley Some smart people whom I respect a great deal believe that a MicrosoftYahoo merger would be bad for Silicon Valley startups. Says Bill Burnham, for example: "By swallowing up Yahoo, Microsoft will be removing one of the biggest and most active acquirors of...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmarca/~3/229427310/silicon-valley.html Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch- February 2, 2008 With apologies in advance to Martin Nisenholtz, who I believe is genuinely fighting the good fight, and who will no doubt end up with a great job at some fine Internet company. The hiring of Bill Kristol was the last straw. I can't take it anymore. I hereby inaugurate my New York Times Deathwatch, which will continue until the last Sulzberger has left the building. Recent dispatches that are fit to print: Leading the way in terrible end-of-year news from the newspaper industry was The...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmarca/~3/227737846/inaugurating-th.html Twitterpitch- February 2, 2008 The subject line here could also be titled What I, a salesbiz dev guy, think about Twitter's market position, but I'm going with a punchier title. I'm totally addicted to twitter, but I feel like there's something missing here - what's missing goes beyond the obvious scale issue everyone else is talking about. Twitter has been a bit of a whipping boy lately on the social software circuit. Some choice samples: Mike Arrington: Twitter downtime on the upswing DA Howlett: .. while Twitter has...http://ericgonzalez.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/twitterpitch/ |