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Cloud Infrastructure – It’s All About Granularity | The Diversity Blog - SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy

diversity.net.nz on 06/07/2013

Excerpt: A post from Barb Darrow over at GigaOm caught my eye this morning. In the post Barb suggests that we’ll see many more specific vertical clouds from AWS, akin to the GovCloud. As she wrote: Here’s one I think the company will pursue, if it’s not doing it already. In the U. S. , Amazon’s GovCloud is a separate region that complies with regulations above and beyond what other regions do so that federal, state and government agencies can use it. Given data privacy concerns in Europe and some other regions, it would be fruitful for Amazon to think about setting up analogous secure clouds outside the U.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Cloud Computing

Trovebox - All your photos from Facebook, Instagram and Flickr in one place

trovebox.com on 06/03/2013

Excerpt: You've probably put many of your photos into an online service already. Let us help you get all of those photos into one place. All your photos are just a few clicks away. We have importers for Flickr, Facebook and Instagram. Allow us to store your photos or use your existing storage account. No pressure to decide. We make it as easy as clicking a few buttons to migrate between storage accounts. We support Dropbox, Box, Amazon S3, CX and DreamObjects. What good are your photos if you don't have access to them? Our mobile apps for iPhone and Android let you enjoy your photos any time you like.... read the full post.

Tags: , , Aggregation, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, ReclaimYourDomain, Story

Kaiser Permanente launches open health API with facility info, self-tracking data coming soon | mobihealthnews

mobihealthnews.com on 06/03/2013

Excerpt: Phil Fasano, executive vice president and chief information officer at Kaiser Permanente, emphasized during a short speech at Health Datapalooza in Washington, D. C. this week that KP has no plans to share their patient’s personal health information via the API. In the future, the platform will make it easier for developers to pull in self-tracking data to Interchange. A logo in KP’s whitepaper about Interchange suggests activity trackers Fitbit and Jawbone, and gamified kids activity platform Zamzee, could be initial partners. That activity data will be shared back to Kaiser Permanente, according to the Interchange FAQ page.... read the full post.

Tags: , , Healthcare, Medical, Mobile

∞ - a personal API i’ve long been a follower of the...

x.naveen.com on 06/03/2013

Excerpt: adventurer. technologist. these are the wanderings of my camera (fuji-san) and me. – naveen i’ve long been a follower of the quantified self – even back before we started calling it that and started building all this software behind it. when i was in graduate school, i remember thinking i wasn’t reading enough. so i made an effort to cut through many must-read books (75). in two years of school, i tracked (microsoft excel, as you do) each page read (21,278) and the number of days (622) and kept a running log of pages-per-day (34. 21).... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, personal, Story

Computer Scientists Urge Court to Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v. Google API Fight | Electronic Frontier Foundation

www.eff.org on 05/30/2013

Excerpt: San Francisco - Dozens of computer scientists urged an appeals court today to block the copyright claims over application programming interfaces (APIs) in the Oracle v. Google court battle, arguing that APIs that are open are critical to innovation and interoperability in computers and computer systems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represents the 32 scientists – including leaders like MS-DOS author Tim Paterson and ARPANET developer Larry Roberts – in the amicus brief filed in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today. The group urges the court to uphold a decision from U. S.... read the full post.

Tags: , , Eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Legal, Oracle

5 Essential Tips for Creating API Monitors

blog.smartbear.com on 05/29/2013

Excerpt: As we have dwelled upon in a number of previous posts here at SmartBear, creating monitors for APIs you either provide or consume (or both) should be a cornerstone in your online quality strategy. Now that API Monitoring has a free version you hardly have any excuses left – right? Actually, one of those last excuses stopping you from setting up your first (free) API monitor might be that you don’t really know what to consider and where to start when setting it up – so let’s remedy that in a pinch and get you going with some hands-on tips for creating your first API monitor.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API Integration, API Monitoring, API Operations, API-Evangelist, API-Stack

Now You Can Control Someone Else's Arm Over The Internet | Popular Science

www.popsci.com on 05/29/2013

Excerpt: Arm Control A demonstration of Open Limbs using an iPhone's accelerometer (left) and a flex sensor on a model skeleton (right) to control creator Will Canine's arms. Screenshot via Vimeo A group of graduate students in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program have developed an open-source API that can allows you to move someone else's arm remotely using a keyboard, a joystick or even an iPhone.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Future

The Future of In-Car Computing

geekbeat.tv on 05/28/2013

Excerpt: Most drivers already have a mobile computing platform with them in the form of their phones. A big move in automotive technology is linking that phone to your car. David Jumpa from Airbiquity talked to us about where the technology is headed. Airbiquity designs services and phone software that let them interact with services while working through the car’s hands-free features. Seamless Connections on the Horizon How far are we from an ideal vision of seamless connection between phone, car and house information systems? The big players in all these markets are working to bring them together in less than five years. Who Will Own the Data?... read the full post.

Tags: , , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automobile

Practicing Developer Communications: Share Knowledge, Not Features

blog.sendgrid.com on 05/28/2013

Excerpt: The last four years I had a job that most developers would envy. I got to check out new APIs, play around with them and then tell everyone what I thought of them. As Executive Editor at ProgrammableWeb, I watched the number of publicly available APIs leap from less than 2,000 to more than 9,000. And it’s still growing, more rapidly than ever. Yet, now I work for SendGrid, which represents a small percentage of all APIs in existence. How does that make sense? My entire career has been built around explaining technology. When I was an active developer, I needed to investigate new tools and decide how to implement them. As early as 2000, I wrote programming how-to articles on Webmonkey.... read the full post.

Tags: , , API Evangelism, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Community, Ecosystem

Got your head in the cloud? We want you for our DevOps job (with Swagger) at Reverb Technologies, Inc. - Aws - Stack Overflow Careers 2.0

careers.stackoverflow.com on 05/28/2013

Excerpt: Are you a senior, hands-on devops engineer capable of building upon our automated interface with the Amazon EC2 API? Are you itching to write new tools, build upon existing systems to provide a developer-friendly, secure and reliable deployment, and grow with our technology? Reverb has a large AWS deployment of micro-services built with Scala and cutting-edge open-source technologies (including Swagger: https://developers. helloreverb. com/swagger), and we're looking for a devops engineer who excels at wringing every last drop of silver lining from the cloud. At Reverb, we're working on new and interesting ways to connect people with meaningful content, and we'd love your help.... read the full post.

Tags: , , Jobs