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Google Code API Console – Nicely Done

SoCal CTO

Google Code just release the API console. It better organizes Google’s APIs and I even discovered a couple new APIs. Right now (more are expected soon) it provides: Buzz API - Google Buzz provides developers with a powerful set of API endpoints for searching, reading, and updating post content and metadata.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. They suddenly had Javascript on pages that covered 40 million unique users and they were coming up with innovative ad products that combated banner blindness.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” A series of standards emerged known as “AJAX” (asynchronous javascript and xml) that gave the web-based designer much more control over the browser. But I valued getting my ideas out there.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

socalTECH

What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? Can you talk about the application and how this is different or better than similar efforts like Google Gears, etc? But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

After Tanz had sold his pre-Instagram photo-sharing app called MoJungle, he was intrigued with notion of bringing advertising to photos, and had no idea if it was even possible. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript.

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Prism will be an extension of what you can do with the Google Glass. Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Technologies used: Google Maps API, to help us give passengers an idea of their ETA according to distance/traffic.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. It’s where you exchange ideas with other people. Actually, that’s kind of lame.

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