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 [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive by Matt Raymond, Library of Congress blog http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html Boy Scouts Add a New Digital Badge by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/boy-scouts-add-a-new-digital-badge/ Twitter Rolls Out Ads by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Emily Steel, WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303695604575182233558434518.html iPad online [...]
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 [...]
A roundup of online activity, mainly focusing on marketing, communications, social media, entertainment and more.