Cloud Computing Apigee Provides Heroku Add-On for Twitter Gateway A drawback to the Twitter API is its incompatibility with the cloud. The API looks for one IP address when making a call. A rate limit is imposed so a busy Twitter app may be difficult to access during heavy load times. But the cloud is not one IP address. It's a network of thousands of IP adresses that are randomly called to a cloud… Alex Williams View comments
Apple Barnes & Noble Goes up Against Kindle, iBooks on the iPad Barnes & Noble has just released its BN eReader for iPad, a mobile e-reader application that competes with Apple's own iBooks app and the popular Kindle for iPad. The new BN eReader sports several features that could position it as a worthy competitor, the most notable of which is probably the "LendMe" feature borrowed from the company's own… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Internet of Things Top 10 YouTube Videos About Printing 3D Objects A world where we download objects off the Web the same way we currently download our data? If this futuristic notion is one day going to come true, it's thanks to 3D printing developers like FormZ, ProtoPulsion, Z Corp, Print2 3D, and Thing Labs. Our selection of the top videos mostly come from these companies. The number one video in this… Deane Rimerman View comments
Real World 5 Intersections of the Real-Time Web and the Deepwater Horizon In the month since the well blowout beneath the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the real-time Web has been leveraged to communicate between concerned parties. At other times it has been noteworthy for how it could have been used but wasn't. Here are five instances where the real-time Web intersected with the blowout's aftermath and… Curt Hopkins View comments
Cloud Computing Open API Madness: The Party Has Just Begun for Cloud Developers It's like an API festival here at Gluecon. I tweeted that this afternoon. But it's not just Gluecon, though - they're one of the hottest topics in discussions about cloud computing. In his presentation today at Gluecon, John Musser of Programmable Web illustrated how hot APIs have become and how they've matured. Alex Williams View comments