Posts Tagged ‘Api’
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
We’re here at Facebook headquarters, where Ethan Beard, Director of Platform Marketing, just delivered Facebook’s first-ever “platform roadmap” presentation to developers. There were a couple hundred developers, from the largest to the smallest, in the room as well. Here’s our instant digest of today’s announcements and what they mean for developers and the Platform ecosystem. Removal of notification and request APIs, migration to inbox, and creation of email API - This is one of the biggest
Tags: Api, Beard, Couple Hundred, Creation, Developers, Director Marketing, Ecosystem, Inbox, Instant Analysis, Migration, Platform Marketing, Presentation
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
When vCloud Express was announced along with the vCloud API at VMworld 2009 in September I decided to sign up and try building VMware virtual machines (VMs) in the Cloud for myself. Being able to provision infrastructure as a service (Iaas) virtually with only a credit card has a certain useful appeal to me, and I wanted to see firsthand exactly what can be done and how much it costs. This post summarizes my experience and touches on Terremark’s various options for building VMware Cloud
Tags: Api, Credit Card, Express, Images, Infrastructure, Provision, Terremark, Virtual Machines, Vmware, Vmworld
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Easy AdSense by Unreal Google had another busy week pushing out updates. That’s really no surprise considering Apple released product refreshes and Microsoft released Windows 7. Google hasn’t let any major update from any competitor go by without their own news and this week was no different. We’ve already covered Google getting a deal with Twitter (similar to Bing’s deal with Twitter) as well as a new social search experiment set up in Google Labs . Here are 7 updates that are slightly minor bu
Tags: Adsense, Api, Apple, Competitor, Custom Maps, Custom Search, Google, Google Labs, Google Search, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, News Week, Own News, Social Search, Surprise, Twitter, Unreal
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Last Wednesday, AMD announced a partnership with Pixelux Entertainment to develop an open source physics initiative called Bullet Physics. The new API is being written in the vendor-neutral OpenCL and DirectCompute languages; that means games which use Bullet could run physics on ATI and NVIDIA cards alike.We know what AMD’s perspective on the new initiative would be, so we turned to NVIDIA to get their thoughts on what Bullet meant to them and the market at large. We heard from NVIDIA’s Directo
Tags: Amd, Api, Ati, Games, Initiative, Languages, Nvidia, Nvidia Cards, Open Source, Partnership, Perspective, Physics
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
It's been a very busy couple of weeks at Mappdev HQ. Also, difficult. Let's recap: I launched my second Flash game, Ruby Rocket, which I posted a preview of a while back. It's a very fun, simple, and addicting logic puzzle game that you can play in just a few minutes (but you might spend hours trying to beat it). You can play it on Facebook , or if you really do not wish to log in, on Kongregate . I launched my first true Twitter application, built with the new OAuth Twitter API. It's
Tags: Api, Facebook, Few Minutes, Flash Game, Fun, Hq, Kongregate, Logic Puzzle, New Attitude, New Games, Puzzle Game, Ruby, Tool, Twitter
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