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How to leverage Web APIs in your business

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by on March 26, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Posted In: API, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Roundups, web api

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Manfred (@ManfredBo) is API Market Development Director at 3scale – delivering API Management solutions (@3scale on Twitter). Vanessa (@deepbane) is a Product Manager at APItools by 3scale – a tool for developers to easily integrate with internal and external API services (@apitools on Twitter). An API (application programming interface) is a specification that defines how to interact with software components. APIs which allow access to remote assets via a communication network are referred to as Web APIs. The benefits for developers in adopting Web APIs are an easy way to enrich functionality, simple and quick to integration, and leveraging brand strength of…

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Jobr updates its job discovery app for iPhone and launches on Android

Mar26
by on March 26, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Jobr, Product Updates

Mobile job discovery service Jobr has updated its iPhone app with a redesigned interface and new features. It’s also launching on Android today. In addition to a new look, the updated iPhone app now adds the ability to sign up via Facebook, import your resume and customize every aspect of it to present your profile as you like. The all-new Android app features a Material Design interface to fit in with Android Lollipop. Jobr has also made it easier to refer jobs through its apps — you can now point friends to a role using Facebook, and receive $1,000 if they’re hired through…

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Facebook F8 2015: Day 2 liveblog

Mar26
by on March 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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We’re live from Fort Mason in San Francisco for Facebook’s F8 developer conference. The two-day event has already told us a lot about Facebook’s priorities for the rest of 2015. What will today bring? Let’s find out. Sit back and join us for our liveblog. Live Blog Facebook f8 2015 – Day two  

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Nuzzel’s time saving news app arrives on Android

Mar26
by on March 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Nuzzel, the time saving news app that shows you what your friends are talking about, has today arrived on Android for the first time. If you’re not familiar with Nuzzel, it taps into your Twitter and Facebooks friends to show you the most-shared news from your friends. It’s still my absolute favorite way to keep up with the news, because it lets Twitter do the curation for me. The app is now available for Android users and features all the great functionality found in the iOS counterpart. You can get the top news based on what your friends are sharing, view…

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Caliber for iOS and Android is the business messaging app you wish LinkedIn would be

Mar26
by on March 26, 2015 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Caliber, Insider, linkedin, messaging, Tinder

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There’s been a lot of ‘Tinder for X’ companies over the past few years – I wrote about another one yesterday – and Caliber started out like that last year. It applied the swipe left/swipe right model to making business connections but it’s now shed that idea to become a really handy professional messaging app. Andres Blank, Caliber’s CEO and co-founder, explains the change to TNW: “When we first released a version of Caliber, nine months ago, it was ‘Tinder for professional networking’. We had a group of people that were very engaged and a group of people that weren’t. The…

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