AT&T is making it drop-dead easy for developers to use the company's internal infrastructure to build mobile apps--including some that could be used by customers of other carriers or networks. Here's why.READ»
Virtual tours have got to be one of the lamest things ever invented: Sit at your computer, squinting at some never-quite-good-enough photos of a place you'll never go to while clicking impotently with your mouse to "move" around. But ...READ»
LinkedIn's just launched its new platform to everyone interested in hooking up to the business networking site's APIs. Useful stuff, for some, but what it's really about is trying to usurp Facebook in the enterprise social networking space.READ»
If new discoveries in the OS code prove true, Apple could be planning some clever, instant social media sharing skills for the iPhone's photo app. Could this have beaten Instagram and Color to the punch? READ»
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day. Today, featuring Blockbuster, Tesla vs. BBC, Google's Answer Bot, Salesforce, and the Japan Earthquake's DVD drive shakeup.READ»
The World Bank is embracing digital openness in a big way: It's just revamped its APIs for public access to its treasure trove of financial data. The aim is to make data available to help developing countries. READ»
Foursquare and Gowalla heads Dennis Crowley and Josh Williams share their thoughts on the social networking giant's attempt to encroach on their turf.READ»
Piqued by Visa's latest efforts at contactless payment goodness with an iPhone case, MasterCard really wants in on the same game. Only the card for "everything else" wants developers to actually write apps for it, leveraging ...READ»
Data analytics firm Infochimps has released a tool that's both amusing for the casual Twitterer and useful for professionals--it's roughly the equivalent of Google's PageRank tech for tweets, and calculates how influential a ...READ»
Twitter's dev team and its app community must be working overtime at the moment--there seems to be a flurry of news about improvements, whole new features and various spit-and-polish activity. We've rounded it up for you.
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Facebook, in its ceaseless quest to attract traffic to its site and sew up as much of the social Web as it possibly can, is soon to release a new tool that lets you embed elements of a Facebook page into any normal Web page.
The ...READ»
Microsoft announced at its Windows 7 launch that Amazon is releasing a Kindle reader for Windows. An Amazon spokesperson told me late Thursday: "Yes, we are working on a Kindle app for Mac." With so many conduits for Kindle reading, ...READ»
Facebook has created its own Google Labs equivalent, dubbed "Facebook Prototypes," according to Mashable. The division released its first product last week, a desktop notifier for Mac OS X. The company has two more little apps ...READ»
Apple's phone is a terrific gizmo with one major short-coming: It's a silo when it comes to big files. But lots of businesses rely on their ability to share to complete projects, services such as drop.io, SharePoint, and Box are ...READ»
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Layar is the first viable augmented reality app for smartphones. Now it's just released its API to developers, which should pave the way for an armload of augmented reality apps.Layar's API isn't ...READ»
Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding ...READ»
