October 4th, 2012

Traffic And Trip Updates Now Available For Enterprise Customers Through Google Maps API

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One of the coolest features that you can get from Google is the capability to see on a map and time it the time it will take to get to a destination either by walking, bike, car or mass transit based on traffic conditions.  → Read More

September 8th, 2012

Twitter’s API Crackdown May Be Bad For Users, Even If They Never Notice

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This week Twitter launched its new API. There are still lots of questions about what this means for developers, and what role developers have played in Twitter’s rise. But the general consensus seems to be that it doesn’t matter much for most users.

Apparently most users just use Twitter’s official clients and supposedly will never notice if Twitter bans most third party clients. Even if that’s… → Read More

August 17th, 2012

Google Launches Private Messages In Hangouts, Adds New Video And Sound Features To The Hangouts API

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This is probably not the Google+ API you have been waiting for, but Google just announced the launch of version 1.2 of its Hangouts API, which comes with a number of significant new features for developers who are building products on top of Google’s group video chat service. In addition, Google also just launched private messages in Hangouts as an experimental feature. → Read More