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What is Open? A Simple Explanation of APIs | BBY Open. Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers. Adam Kleinberg is co-founder and CEO at Traction, an interactive agency that aligns psychology with technology to create ideas that work. Catch him tweeting at @adamkleinberg and blogging at tractionco.com/blog. The most effective ads today are experiences that provide value to customers. The biggest challenge is providing that value at scale in a world where people are empowered to consume media on their own terms through a dizzying array of gadgets, devices and doodads. This puts marketers between a rock and a hard place. For years, marketers have distributed messages to people with banner ads, which are like a rock that we throw at people with the dim hope that we’ll knock them upside the head.

Today, we've figured out how to create value — apps. But the reward is so great because with that app comes a deep and meaningful relationship with your customer — a new platform for your brand to foster long-term engagement with your target. We Already Have an App. That’s what could go wrong. API - interactive voice API, découvrez interactive voice sur orange API - Orange API. 10 Brilliant Online Tools For Increasing Your Productivity. I’m always amazed at some of the free tools that are available online and how much they increase your business productivity either as an organization or as an individual and with that in mind I wanted to share 10 of the best tools that I use pretty much every single day. Most of these tools are free although some will have premium upgrades that might suck you in as you start to become more dependent on them and want to unlock more features.

One thing that is certain though is that using any single one of these tools will vastly improve the productivity of your business going forward. Here are my top 10 online productivity tools. Evernote The problem with the web is that we consume so much content now on a daily basis that it can be hard to remember all the best stuff but luckily Evernote solves that problem in some style. Rapportive We reported on Rapportive before anyone else and we’re proud of it because it’s a superb tool. Remember The Milk Yammer Dreaminder Skype Screen Sharing Harvest. Google New. La DaaS, famille d’accueil des données orphelines | bluenove La DaaS, famille d’accueil des données orphelines | opening innovation. Tout commence avec des citrons… Pas n’importe lesquels, les citrons de George Akerlof, prix Nobel d’économie en 2001 et professeur à Berkley. Alors que les hippies se dirigent en combi VW vers Woodstock, il peaufine le concept d’asymétrie de l’information en étudiant, justement, le marché des voitures d’occasion.

Selon lui, l’importante différence de prix entre une voiture neuve et une voiture d’occasion, même en bon état, vient du manque d’information lors de la transaction. Un acheteur potentiel ne connaît pas les raisons profondes de la vente de la voiture. Le propriétaire a-t-il seulement besoin d’argent ou l’état sous le capot est moins rutilant que la carrosserie fraîchement astiquée ?

Le doute persistant et la présence de mauvaises occasions sur le marché faisant, les acheteurs souhaitent acheter au prix le plus bas. Morale de cette histoire : fournir des informations de confiance permet de créer de nouvelles opportunités de business. … et une évolution récente des business models. How to Make Money With Your API. This guest post comes from Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development for NPR.

Daniel leads NPR’s content management solutions, is the creator of the NPR API and is a frequent contributor to the Inside NPR.org blog. One of the questions that I am most frequently asked regarding content APIs is “how can I make money with my API?” Before answering that question, however, it is important to ask for whom the API is designed. After all, the audiences for your API will determine what business opportunities exist. The most common target audience for APIs is the developer community. When we launched the NPR API in 2008, we established four target audiences, each of which were important.

NPR: NPR is of highest importance because as we build all of our systems, mobile apps, etc., it was important to be as nimble and efficient as possible. With the API live for a full two years, I decided to look more closely at how effectively the API has been serving these four audiences. Untitled. Operators have started the biggest transformation of their network services in history, opening up their once sacred infrastructures. They have little choice: where once they dominated voice services and the transport of Internet traffic, now they are being challenged by companies like Google that are not yet subject to the same regulatory scrutiny. Operators still secure approximately 60% of their revenues worldwide from selling fixed and mobile voice, according to research company Gartner.

But that income is set to erode substantially, demanding a radical change in how they make money from their networks. The Google voice move is not innocent at all, says Stephan Hadinger, director, service architecture and telco 2.0 at Orange, referring to the Internet companys meteoric rise into voice provisioning. The barrier to entry is collapsing, because voice is software. The competitive threat is mounting on several fronts. CHART OF THE DAY: Half Of Netflix Streaming Viewers Are Watching. 3 Reasons Google Isn’t Too Late With the Latitude API. When Google first launched its location-sharing service, Latitude, developers were left wondering how to access their users’ data. Now, over a year later, we finally have a Latitude API. But we also have a number of other similar services that have better traction and are arguably more fully featured.

FourSquare and Gowalla have both become popular because of the experience they provide as users share their location. And each has an API, which lets developers access the location data below. And it’s the data that’s interesting–more users, more data. Still, there are a few reasons I believe Google brings more than a me-too service to location-sharing: 1. The API requires authentication for all commands, using OAuth. While the API does not provide friend locations, Latitude has that data. Both comments and pings are currently closed.