This offering is rumored to include an open API for applications and data usage. Marketing Social Media advisory API Danny Brown google marketingImage by Sean MacEntee. by Danny Brown and Geoff Livingston. Much has been said about marketing on Google+. Both of us have been intentionally conservative about marketing on the new network due to a statement from Google+ specifically asking businesses and brands to wait until it formalized its business offering. Image from KCET-TV. Both Bonsai Interactive and Zoetica represent real brands, corporate and nonprofit. MORE >>

A lot of people have spent time talking about the value you can get by providing an API (Application Programming Interface) for other people to use and build with. Basically it provides a managed route for people to utilise your data in their own creations, and can have big implications – such as the success of 3rd party applications in helping Twitter to grow, as an example. nice example of going further than simply creating and releasing an API has been announced by Etsy , the community of makers and sellers of all sorts of items. MORE >>

A lot of talk about Big Data this year and for sure, in 2013, probably a good deal of it being hyped. Yet, Obama did win last week and it’s partly due to Big Data according to reports that have come out of Chicago. After all, according to IDC by 2016 Big Data Analytics will be a 51 Billion dollar Industry. It’s all fine to talk about Big Data in 2016 where adoption will have spread to many, many businesses and enterprises, but what about Big Data now – for use by us to solve our current problems? So how would it work for you (or me)? MORE >>

For entrepreneurs, one of the best features of Twitter is it’s API. This Twitter API has spawned several unique applications and projects that have benefited internet users in a variety of ways. This API has also spawned several real time search engines, such as Sency , which tap into sources such as Twitter to offer real time results for internet users. result of this API is that Twitter’s real time data is syndicated across the web. Facebook wants its users data to be shared with users’ friends, not the world. Tags: Facebook Twitter api Blast. MORE >>

To do that, those of us who help bring you tools like Jugnoo’s Social Dashboard and our social media analytics tools are reliant on the interfaces (or APIs) that social networks like Twitter and Facebook provide to other software developers. Open social-network platforms obviously help companies like us to provide you with great value-added services, by extending these networks’ platforms and analyzing data and statistics across all of these networks. The current APIs for Facebook and LinkedIn, for instance, provide few if any ways to manage your connections or inbox. MORE >>