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What Is an API & Why Does It Matter for Social Media?

Sprout Social

Your Internet experience runs on APIs. But what is an API and why does it matter to you? In this article, we’ll give a high-level overview of APIs and how they relate to your daily life. What is an API? API stands for application programming interface. APIs operate on an agreement of inputs and outputs.

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LeapFish Integrates Topsy Into Real-Time Search Results

Bill Hartzer

LeapFish , an evolved search engine, has now integrated Topsy into its real-time search results. Topsy is a search engine that finds the most talked about links on Twitter and organizes them by popularity and influence. Topsy’s index is available via its extensive open API called Otter, which powers LeapFish’s integration.

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Romi Mahajan leaves Microsoft to Join Metavana as CMO

Buzz Marketing for Technology

A: After an aggregate of 9 years at Microsoft, being the CMO of a $100M dollar digital agency, and a writer, I wanted to get back to my roots in terms of “building” something that had huge customer promise and could make a dent in reality as we know it. We are an engine! What drew me to Metavana like a moth to a flame?

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Text Analytics in the Cloud

Net-Savvy Executive

There's an API for that. Semantic Engines. Professional-Strength Social Media Aggregators. You can handle pulling in data, moving it around, and displaying results—the normal software stuff. If you're analyzing social media content, though, the core functions of text analytics might be something you'd rather not learn.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Buzz Marketing for Technology

When I prepared this experiment and paper I used the information found via search engines and basically gathered information from blog posts and comments and I mention this in the section Used methodology. Interactive Instructional Content for Engineers. June 5, 2008 1:41 PM. Nice to meet you here and thank you for this comment!

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Social Media Marketing Guide: Facebook

Little Web Giants

Recently I won the Biggest Social Geek competition generously hosted by Marin Software , the largest third-party aggregator of paid search spend globally. These apps interact with the Graph API , which feeds data to and reads data from Facebook’s social graph. In today’s post, Facebook. Tools for Businesses. Graph Search.