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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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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

In 2006, The Wall Street Journal wrote that TechCrunch has revenue of $120,000 a month. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast (11). We estimate about $10 million in 2009 revenue and apply a 15-times multiple (higher than other blogs given growth and brand strength) to arrive at a $150 million valuation.

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Blogs et Wikis en formation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Reilly 2004 2006 2008 I. dité par swisscom (2006) [link]. Developers & API. Slideshare.net (beta). My Slidespace. Most Viewed. |. Most Embedded. |. Featured. |. Most Favorited. |. Most Downloaded. |. Slidecasts. Post to Twitter. Post: Blogs et Wikis en formation. From: idremeau , 4 months ago. Dremeau, 22 mai 2008 â??

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let’s say I am a competitor of the guy behind the blue widget factory (@BlueWidgets) because I own red widgets. This specifically is a Twitter API limitation. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Tweet Spinner: Keyword Following Mimic Following This is an altogether fascinating implementation of Tweet Spinner as well.

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Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content for Social Media.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’ve already stated that I love apps built on the Digg API , and anyone with some programing know-how can build an excellent web-based or standalone utility. Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community.

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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Jesse Stay is a consultant who specializes in the integration of social APIs such as Twitter and Facebook. If you are writing your own using the Facebook API you have to do it through a second application you would create. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. You have until December 10th to enter. All rights reserved.

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