In the digital age, keeping yourself physically fit can be a challenge. What if you could manage your all your physical activities while at the same time engage your social network with it. Well, MapMyFitness, which runs a network of sites, caters exactly to that.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-Up Challenge returns for a fourth consecutive year. AWS is in search of startups that are using (or planning to use) any paid service from Amazon’s suite that includes Amazon Product Advertising API. AWS will award $50,000 in cash and over $140,000 in AWS credits.
Twitter may be taking a card from the Facebook playbook. Along with its launch of the new design earlier this week, the company’s flagship site now has plenty of new screen real estate. And with 16 launch partners, one has to wonder how Twitter will open the space up to others, including independent developers.
Have you seen the new Twitter page? It’s awesome. It’s got all this stuff going on in the side bar, so you don’t have to click links anymore. It’s prettier, crashes less (allegedly), and looks great as a desktop app when running in Fluid or Prism. Trust me, you want the new Twitter. But you can’t have it yet.
Have you ever wondered how much traffic Twitter handles in a given day, or what software sits behind the curtain of the popular service? A recent presentation reveals some of the answers. Twitter’s incredible growth becomes obvious when you compare the recent numbers to those announced at Chirp.
We’ve covered location stalking through apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook Places as a potentially hazardous concept for the truly paranoid. Well, it’s not so much a laughing matter, anymore. A ring of burglars in New Hampshire used social websites, and potentially tracked location sharing app checkins, to find when their soon-to-be victims were away from [...]
Government and Public organizations have taken positive moves in opening up data to the public. We are now seeing a next step in the process to involve citizens to solve challenges that government agencies face today and rewarding them in the process. And now there’s a central place to find these government challenges and contests.
Daniel Jacobson, responsible for NPR’s trailblazing API, is leaving his post to join Netflix next month. Jacobson will become API Director of Engineering for the movie rental service, looking to support the company’s continued expansion to additional streaming devices. At NPR for over 10 years, Jacobson launched its API in 2008 and recently supported mobile devices that helped NPR’s traffic double in a year.
Google Maps has implemented a much requested feature, draggable maps, into the Google Maps API. The feature has long been a part of the Google Maps site, but now developers can provide draggable maps for their users–and retrieve the results.
A while back, we talked about using popular APIs to develop a new type of online hub for small towns and local areas. We talked about grabbing images, tweets, and all sorts of content, but we forgot a very important part: the news. Thanks to Outside.in’s revamped API, we can add local news to the mix.
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