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“Get a Clue”
All I need to know about Windows, I learned from a taxi. See that photo to the right? NYC’s taxis run Windows. Booyah. Fatal Windows Errors… I’ve seen them in airports on the departure/arrival displays...
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Riddle: How Can You Be Innovative Without Innovating?
Answer: Do what the MTA in NYC did… set your data free. I’ve seen this MTA/Subway ad before, but its implication hadn’t sunk in until yesterday. The implication being that the New York Transit...
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Barbarians at the Gate
Have you ever asked yourself why you have a 200MB limit on email at work, but for $50/year Google can give you 25GB? For those not math-inclined – that’s 125x more storage, for “just” $50/year — keep...
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Creative APIs are a 2-Way Street
I was on the phone with the VP of Web Development at CBS Local Digital Media last night talking APIs. We were brainstorming use cases, I was driving home the importance that every single brand needs to...
View ArticleNo, APIs are not Mashups
I’m talking to traditional marketing people a lot about APIs. They’re not technical people, so I use a lot of examples. By nature, these examples are UI driven and their response is inevitably “oh,...
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Canary in the API Coalmine
Late last week a very serious outage occurred. Serious because it was an intentional outage created by a service provider and impacting its API users. By the time the weekend was out, service was...
View ArticleDoes That API Go With This Outfit?
Have you ever purchased a product based on a product description, or industry review, or friend’s recommendation… only to realize you’ve got a different situation than those others, and that the...
View Article2 Ways for Retail Banking Innovation to Capture Profitable Customers and...
A part of yesterday’s big news was the Google Wallet Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment service. Knowing it was coming, and being passionate about personal finance and the abysmal retail...
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