Category Archives: programmable web

API of the Week : DBpedia API

If you were to ask me, I would say the twenty year old software engineer has a distinct advantage over the older telephone guys (such as me) in the realm of innovation. Since the barriers to entry to deploying a service provider have fallen through the floor, the larger challenge is not in complex [...]

Hello to the VON Show?

I think I should make an honest apology for underestimating Jeff Pulver and his organization. I was wrong.

As you might recall, I did not attend last Spring’s VON show that grew from a conviction that the venerable conference’s best days were now behind it, and for content, it had gone off the tracks.  I surely [...]

Gaboogie

Gaboogie is a pretty cool idea. How often, in your professional life, do you find yourself trying to setup a conference call? Gaboogie aims to make that easier for you, in classic 37 Signals fashion. Gaboogie’s service makes it easy to setup a conference call between a small number of participants, and then [...]

StumbleUpon Snapped Up

Do you remember when VoIP companies actually had some sort of liquidity event? Well, if you DON’T work for Acme Packet, maybe you don’t! The Web 2.0 finance world continues to bubble with today’s news that StumbleUpon was snapped up by eBay for north of 40 million.
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Web 2.0 Show Wrap Up

Well, the show is over, but the show head-spin hasn’t ended yet. Here’s some of my highlights I wanted to share with you.
Finally got to meet John Musser of Programmable Web fame. John runs (in our opinion) the premier site for finding state of the art mashups and APIs. Nice guy. Pat [...]

Off to the Web 2.0 Expo

Well, off I go to the Web 2.0 show. Considering how much I learned at the ETel show, I’m sure that this is going to be another mind blowing experience. I really can’t pick which of the sessions I would like to attend - they all seem so necessary. I’ll tell [...]

Been really busy designing this week

Sorry for the drop out in posts… just been working really hard. So, as a complete dodge of my blogging responsibilities, let me clue you in to Tom’s favorite, but probably useless, mashup of the day… Twitter Vision.
Twitter vision mashes up Twitter text messages with google maps, so that when anybody sends [...]

Next Generation Communications Primer

Now that I’ve stuck my foot firmly in my mouth, it’s time to come clean on what I think the future of our industry is. I’ll put together a comprehensive article about it soon, but as a preface to it, here’s my “Next Generation Communications Primer”. Each item in the list is critical [...]