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Team communication platform HipChat is launching a new API called Connect, aimed at bringing more services directly into HipChat. Here’s how it works: With the Connect API, HipChat could work with services like Google (Drive) or GitHub, allowing users to perform simpler tasks right from within chat. For instance, a team of developers may be able to have tweets about feature requests fed directly into a channel, and see a sidebar with pull requests from GitHub. If the feature requested was part of the pull request, someone from the team could respond to that user and suggest it’s incoming. Those…

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