Football, the season for pigskins, tailgates and letters painted on stomachs, is among us OneLouder, the maker of Tweetcaster, is gearing up for game time with a new free mobile app launched today. It’s called Sportcaster and isn’t based on …
Enterprise social networking site Yammer today unveiled Yammer Connect, a new JavaScript application programming interface (API) that adds a single sign-on “Connect” button and embeddable streams to third-party enterprise software websites.
Yammer is working with a number of third-party enterprise …
Just in time for the August 20-21 Photo Hack Day, Flickr has unleashed some new tools for providing real-time photo data to web apps.
That means you can soon look forward to apps that make more extensive — and immediate …
Twitpic founder Noah Everett today announced the launch of Heello, the startup he’s been brewing for exactly one year.
Yesterday, Twitter completed the rollout of its own official photo-sharing app, a move that spells danger for other photo-sharing services that …
Google+ has an incredible amount of buzz surrounding it at the moment. But one element the young network lacks is open standards compliance.
It’s not unique to Google+, as almost all social networks for that matter have this problem. But …
Salsa Labs, a web-based tool non-profits use for fundraising, isn’t having any problems raising cash of its own. On Monday it received a $5 million first round of funding.
Fundraisers are everywhere. Coworkers sell their children’s wrapping paper, the quintessential, …
In one swift move, the online media editing suite Aviary may soon find itself at the heart of the photo app craze. The company today is announcing its Effects API, which will allow developers to easily integrate photo filters and …
Many popular applications use the application programming interfaces (APIs) of other services, from your favorite Twitter client to Facebook apps. So downtime on the most popular APIs has a serious knock-on effect on other services and (up)time is money.
Performance …
Today at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Rdio, the unlimited, on-demand social music service, introduced its API to the public.
The API gives developers the ability to create web applications that can search, access and play …
Twitter said it has reinstated two of several UberMedia apps that it had shut down on Friday because of alleged privacy, monetization and trademark violations.
The incident shows that platform owners have to be diligent about protecting their users from …
Location-based check-in service Foursquare just announced on its blog that is has officially released the second version of its application programming interface, or API, in beta. The first version of its API, used by third-party developers to build software that …
Social media tracker startup Tynt has launched a new application program interface (API) that allows developers to access their content through real-time data streams, as the rush to put more information in the hands of smartphone users heats up.
Tynt …
Twilio, which provides software to connect phone calls to web applications, announced today that it has raised $12 million in its second round of funding to bring additional engineers on staff and continue marketing its services.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based …
Just as Captain Renault was “shocked, shocked” to find out that gambling was going on in Casablanca, I’m shocked, shocked to learn that Twitter is planning to take business away from its third-party developers. The Twitter platform was always about …
Social network Facebook tightened rules over the way apps can automatically publish updates or tag photos in a person’s news feed today. The company said developers were abusing privileges and spamming users by auto-tagging multiple friends in photos without consent …
My6Sense is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
My6Sense, an Israeli company …
Social news site Digg, founded by camera-friendly CEO Kevin Rose (pictured), is still going strong even if it has been edged out of the limelight by Facebook and Twitter. Digg is now developing a new application programming interface (API), however, …
