I recently came across some great applications of a developer API, and began to wonder why people/agencies don’t take advantage of APIs more often. Two of the more recent items I saw were Instaprint (from the great forward thinking Brooklyn digital shop Breakfast), and Postagram. Instaprint allows you to print your Instagram photos from an [...]
It’s been said before, and I’m sure it’ll be said again…it looks like 2010 is going to be the year of location based services. Leading the pack are Foursquare and Gowalla (sorry BrightKite, Loopt, and others). As most people know, with most location based services, the main function is to check-in at a specific location. [...]
Each time I sign up for a new online service I see the same trend popping up…auto posting to your twitter and Facebook streams/feeds. I choose not to enable these options just about 100% of the time. Why? I don’t need to pollute my “main” feeds with updates from every single service I use. I [...]
It seems the theme of South By Southwest (or more specifically SXSW Interactive) this year is all about location based services. Understandably, the big matchup is between Foursquare and Gowalla. Earlier today I read post on The Social Times about this particular matchup. The reason I keep saying “matchup” is because of the GREAT illustration [...]
Earlier today I read a short post by Shiv Singh asking if society is going to become all advertising all the time. It included a trailer from “Logorama” where the whole world was covered in logos. Is this the world that we are heading into, a world where all we see are ads plastered on [...]
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