7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful"The purpose of a content API is to make the content available to its audience in the most useful and efficient way possible. To be a useful API, it needs to help the developers make their jobs easier. This could mean a wide range of things, including making [...]

Adobe Vs. Apple War Generates Rage, Facebook GroupOn Adobe advocates (and employees) falling out of love with Apple: "I tried to put together an (incomplete) collection of Adobe employee reactions— from the iPad release to Adobe’s “Viva La Resistance.”" (apple adobe iphone sdk ) Steve Jobs Responds To iPhone SDK Complaints: ‘Intermediate Layers Produce Sub-Standard [...]

Eric Kerr | New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Third-Party Analytics and ServicesWhich seems to say that in your iPhone apps you can't use a third party analytics service… such as Omniture… which is owned by Adobe. (apple omniture adobe eula web_analytics ) It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking [...]

Apple Unveils Next-Gen, Multitasking iPhone OS | Gadget Lab | Wired.com"The new operating system, iPhone OS 4, will be released to developers this week and to consumers this summer. It will include support for multitasking, in-app advertising, e-book reading, social gaming and other features." They finally get multitasking, but more significantly they own the advertising [...]

What would it take to build a true “serendipity-maker”? » Nieman Journalism LabGoodness, that Random Guardian has gone far (part 2 of several): "For the last 24 hours or so, the Twitter-sphere has been buzzing over Daniel Vydra’s “serendipity maker,” an off-the-cuff Python hack that draws on the APIs of the Guardian, New York Times, [...]

about the bodega listA project to identify every bodega in New York City. And an About page which helps non-Americans understand what a bodega might be. (crowdsourcing new_york ) iPad Magazine Art Direction on VimeoClearly we haven't learnt how to do magazines on the iPad yet, but Popular Science seems to be ahead of the [...]

Johnston’s Local Pay Site Trial Has Been ‘A Disaster’ | paidContent:UK"[Johnson Press's] three-month pay trial on six local papers sites is now ending, with apparently dismal results. One paper staffer tells HTFP the trial was a “disaster” with subscribers “in single figures”, while another title got subscribers only “in the low double figures”, Press Gazette [...]