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.phpRobot + Super Gun = 'Crowd Control'- May 28, 2008 Electronic-gun developer Metal Storm has been working with iRobot to develop a rapid-fire bot capable of firing up to a million rounds per minute. Such advanced technology could be applied to border patrol or crowd control. Tags: crowd gun control per minutehttp://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/299369957/metal-storm-iro.html First Venture Captial Funded iPhone Apps: Whrrl, iControl- May 27, 2008 When Apple announced the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in March, they also announced the creation of a $100 million dollar "iFund" by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Businessweek reports on the first two companies that...Tags: first announced iphone venture kleinerhttp://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/27/first-venture-captial-funded-iphone-apps-whrrl-icontro... heirloom piece for the modern collector- May 27, 2008 I'm constantly looking for a piece, the piece of furniture that makes a statement and lasts a long time. I'm struggling with should you purchase furniture as if it will be an heirloom or do you take the more laissez faire approach and buy with the times. I'm really digging the benches by Scrapile . To me they are the nelson bench equivalent for environmentally conscious collectors. Scrapile designs their furniture made of post industrial woodworking scraps and crafts new furniture. It's a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AsparagusInteriors/~3/298692539/ Too much Jabber!- May 24, 2008 We found an errant API project eating way too much of our Jabber (a flavor of instant messenger) resources. This activity (which we've corrected) had an affect of overloading our main database, resulting in the error pages and slowness most people are now encountering.We're bringing services back online now. Some will be slower than others for a while, and we'll be watching IM and IM-based API clients very closely. We'll also be taking steps to avoid this behavior in the future.Thanks for...http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/too-much-jabber.html The Biggest Tech IPO of 2008 Is Coming Out of Russia: Search Engine Yandex to Raise Up To $2 Billion- May 21, 2008 The Google of Russia is Yandex, and it is preparing for an IPO on Nasdaq in the fall with the hopes of raising $1.5 billion to $2 billion, reports Reuters. That would give the company a $5 billion valuation. Yandex was founded 15 years ago and the last funding I can find was only $5.3 million back in 2000, according to Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov (Quintura is a smaller search engine also based in Russia). If that is all the company raised, it will be a huge payday for investors ru-Net...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/294556918/ How Bad Is Your Twitter Addiction- May 8, 2008 Shared by internetcases Xefer has pulled together an interesting mashup which leverages Yahoo Pipes and Google Chart API to plot the usage of twitter of a specific user. Twitter, like anything, can be a little addictive as we look to reach out and communicate with all our friends and followers. Xefer has pulled together an interesting mashup which leverages Yahoo Pipes and Google Chart API to plot the usage of twitter of a specific user. So of course, I had to plug the somewhatfrank twitter..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Media20Workgroup/~3/285102475/how-bad-is-your.html ABC to Cram More Ads Into Web Video- May 2, 2008 ABC will test inserting multiple commercials into ad breaks for primetime shows viewed through its broadband player next week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The move would break the norm of having a single advertiser within a longform web vid and begin the downward spiral toward making web video as irritating as oldteevee. Albert Cheng, executive vice president at Disney-ABC Television told The Reporter, It would be premature for us to say people only want one ad. He continued: It's a.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/newteevee/~3/282147238/ Kleiner Perkins creates $700M new fund, plus $500M for green investments (Matt MarshallVentureBeat)- May 1, 2008 Matt Marshall VentureBeat: Kleiner Perkins creates $700M new fund, plus $500M for green investments Kleiner Perkins, the respected Silicon Valley venture capital firm, said it has finished raising its thirteenth fund (called KPCB XIII) for early-stage companies, totaling $700 million.Tags: m fund perkins kleiner matthttp://www.techmeme.com/080501/p45#a080501p45 |