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These are news items I've curated in my Google Reader, Twitter and bookmarking using Pinboard. Sometimes I add a little commentary to each post.

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Moving Forward with Technology Transitions Trials

www.fcc.gov on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: Today, the Technology Transitions Policy Task Force issued a Public Notice proposing to conduct real-world trials and seeking input on specific potential trials. The goal of any trials will be to assist the Commission in ensuring that its policy decisions relating to ongoing technology transitions are solidly grounded in good data. Communications networks are changing from copper to fiber and from time division multiplexing (TDM) to Internet protocols; wireless voice and data services are increasingly important. These are exciting developments. The ongoing technology transitions hold the promise for tremendous benefits for consumers.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Communications, Federal Government, Mobile, Telco

New White House open data executive order: how does it compare to the British version?

www.guardian.co.uk on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: The White House has released an executive order today committing all federal government data to be open and machine-readable. Signed by President Barack Obama – who was also one of the people behind the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Bill of 2006, back in the day when he was a Senator. That Bill became an act – and led directly to the creation of data. gov. Just for reference, an executive order is a decree of the President which has the full force of law. They don't exist in the UK in the same way, but back in 2010, then-new Prime Minister David Cameron wrote a public letter to senior civil servants, the cabinet and members of the government setting out what the government planned to do with open data.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Federal Government, Open Data

Openings & New Hires at CityGrid, Google Wallet, Groupon, and more…

streetfightmag.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: STREET FIGHT SUMMIT WEST 2013 returns to San Francisco on June 4. Find out who's coming and what's on the agenda.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Coupons, Local, Payments, Places

OpenKit''s Open Source, Open Data Back-End Service to Go Live With Universal Social Graph Across IOS & Android for Frictionless User Acquisition and Sharing

pb.marketwire.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwired - May 10, 2013) - In anticipation of Google IO, Peter Relan's open source, open data alternative to OpenFeint, OpenKit, announced today that the cloud-based platform & service will let developers create social gaming interactions across all gaming services on mobile platforms. OpenKit plans to let developers add "smart social invites" and game data sharing across mobile platforms so that developers can leverage smart invites to detect the receiver's device and open up discovery across iOS and Android. OpenKit, which currently has over 1,200 developers testing the service in beta, will add other cross-platform social features before June.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, Gaming

ScraperWiki lets anyone scrape Twitter data without coding

gigaom.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: Summary: A new beta version of ScraperWiki makes it easy to relatively easy to scrape Twitter for certain phrases and get to work analyzing the data. It’s just one more way that data analysis is getting democratized. The Obama administration’s open data mandate announced on Thursday was made all the better by the unveiling of the new ScraperWiki service on Friday. If you’re not familiar with ScraperWiki, it’s a web-scraping service that has been around for a while but has primarily focused on users with some coding chops or data journalists willing to pay to have someone scrape data sets for them.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Harvesting, Scraping, Twitter

Sencha Touch Customer Spotlight: Nervana Group

www.sencha.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: Nervana Group is an interactive innovation firm that focuses on developing solutions for clients who want to interact better with their customers. Nervana Group won the Chicago Innovation Awards based on our hospitality technology and was featured as one of the Top 100 Most Innovative Companies in Chicago. We use Sencha Touch to build mobile apps and large format touch screens for many different clients including Hard Rock Hotel, Swissotel and DePaul University. What’s unique about the applications we build is our methodology and approach to make emotion a key element in scoring our software before delivering to the client. Our five pillars of measurement are Features, Functionality, Design, Usability and Emotion.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mobile, Showcase

Simplest code to export a datatable into .csv format

www.codeproject.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: Hello friends we all go for a complex coding for exporting the data into excel sheet. Some times we face a problem that we are not having the interop dll for export to excel. So here is a solution for all of us which will help in exporting the data into. csv format. Here is a simple code. var lines = new List(); string[] columnNames = dataTable. Columns. Cast(). Select(column => column. ColumnName). ToArray(); var header = string. Join(" ,", columnNames); lines. Add(header); var valueLines = dt. AsEnumerable(). Select(row => string. Join(" ,", row. ItemArray)); lines. AddRange(valueLines ); File. WriteAllLines(" excel.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Code, CSV, Database

Struggling Google Wallet reportedly abandons the idea of plastic cards

gigaom.feedsportal.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: It’s been two years since Google launched its mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, but the initiative has been slow to take off. The company had reportedly planned to launch a plastic card that could be used at merchants who don’t accept tap-and-go NFC payments. On Friday, though, AllThingsD reported that Google has abandoned the idea. AllThingsD said the change of plan was included in a memo that also announced the departure of Google Wallet head Osama Bedier. The report cited sources who said that “Google CEO Larry Page abruptly killed the card launch plan after he was displeased with a glitchy run-through last week.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Google Wallet, Payments

Twitter reportedly plans to expand Sacramento data center space

gigaom.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: Summary: Twitter will expand its data center footprint in Sacramento, Data Center Knowledge reports. The move would help the social network support traffic spikes and a continually growing user base. Twitter is leasing more data center space at RagingWire’s 500,000-square-foot campus in Sacramento, Data Center Knowledge reported Friday, attributing its report to “industry sources. ” There’s no square-footage figure available, but power use for the expansion is pegged at “more than 20 megawatts. ” And so the mystery about Twitter’s infrastructure continues.... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Growth

Two-thirds of Small Businesses Use Mobile Technology … And Other Hot Topics

feedproxy.google.com on 05/10/2013

Excerpt: If you own a small business, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about mobile over the last few months. We’ve certainly been talking a lot about it here. It seems like each week there’s new data about why mobile is important and how the increased usage of smartphones and other devices have changed the way we interact with the world. But you may also be wondering how your mobile strategy stacks up with your small business peers. According to our latest data, mobile is already playing a big role in how business owners run and market their businesses online. Plus, did you know that Instagram is now the fastest growing social network for brands? Make sure you remember that, when you’re snapping a photo with mom this Mother’s Day!... read the full post.

Tags: , API-Evangelist, Mobile