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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Amazon API.

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2012 Google I/O - Is This the 2007 Facebook F8?

Stay N' Alive

As the first Google I/O with the Google+ Team, and a serious read/write API yet to launch, I predict we are about to see an explosion of social apps at a level we haven't seen since Facebook's F8 Conference in 2007 when they launched their platform to the world. Let's look first at the original APIs for both.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I want people who read my profile to see that I’m happily employed, that I work for a “real&# company, and that my company has capabilities in certain areas. Username: API Key ? December 2006. November 2006. October 2006. September 2006. August 2006. April 2006. March 2006.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. I would also add [link] which is an excellent Twitter API. I would also add [link] which is an excellent Twitter API.

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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

The company has proven to be more than adept at balancing reporting the news with growing visitors and pageviews. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal wrote that TechCrunch has revenue of $120,000 a month. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast (11). from Silicon Alley Insider ).

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter: API – an open API is so important. Instant Messenger – a lot of people like to have their messages sent instantaneously, and dislike waiting for the API to refresh. Be the first to have all of these features , or just take over companies that already have them and make Plutter Kite. So there you go.

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Twitter's Supposed Lack of Loyalty: It's “too” easy

Bare Feet Studios

FWIW we offer training in how to use Twitter and would be delighted to work with any individuals or companies who want to use it as a business tool. Further digging has found they looked only at domain traffic , not traffic coming from third party apps that connect to Twitter via its open API.

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