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Social Media APIs Explained (In Simple Terms)

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Recent changes to API access on Twitter and Reddit have brought the topic of social media APIs into the news. APIs power many of the tools and features we use every day in apps and marketing tools — but they’re essentially invisible to everyone but developers. Free 30-Day Trial What is a social media API? Everyone wins.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. Ahead of its acquisition by Google in the fall of 2006, the site grew to 100 million videos watched by 20 million dedicated users. In May 2007, YouTube introduced its partnership program.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

These allow custom extensions, which may pave the way for the development of open APIs for connection by PLEs. In a more advanced, customised example, data from a particular Google Spreadsheet could be fed into Google Earth. APIs ) available. A simple example is the integration of weblog with an embedded online calendar.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

However, the first five items of content accessed via Google will be free each day, while (probably) just the first item via Facebook will be. Will you pay for a story that has travelled from one part of the community to another, or will you go into that community (online) yourself and google the story? Google or Paywall?

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

Convince & Convert

should probably be the same people that are handling your Google ads or your display ads or things of that nature. ” Jay : You’re not using a CRM system like Salesforce or Argyle’s new API? Jill : Yeah, I’ve been a fan since 2002. We love your stuff.” Shameless plug. To tie that into the CRM system.

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