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title: 'Weekly API.Report For March 30th, 2015'
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I swear 3D Printing is continuing to cross over in some interesting ways:
Interesting week for acquisitions in my opinion:
Seems like agriculture is a continuing trend:
Several diverse areas within analytics caught my attention:
Some API aggregation tidbits:
Helpful API debugging assistance from Splunk:
Big shifts in the world of API definitions:
Some API deployment advice from this week:
Valuable API design from this week:
Keeping developers up to speed with a little API evangelism:
Some API events activity (mostly from my events ;-)
Great API lifecycle guidance out of Nordic APIs:
- The Entire API Lifecycle - I think I'm going to break these lifecycle discussions into their own area. Normally I put under business of APIs, but recently some of the conversation is elevating way beyond just business.
Lots to highlight from API management this week:
Also some interesting API monetization chatter:
Some good API monitoring leads from this week:
I am not the only one busting out the good API news:
API performance is something I'll be breaking out more as well:
Big moves fro Talend in the area of API reciprocity, and I guess cloud storage:
Like seeing talk on API stability:
Previoius weeks have been a lot of talk by me, but this wee there were two amazing visualization discussions:
Two interesting authentication pieces:
Thoughts on automobiles:
The banking chatter I felt worthy of higlighting:
I am tracking more on blockchain now too:
Bots can be fun to throw in as well:
Browser APIs are normal, but I'm keeping a closer eye on to educate myself:
The infamous area called the business of APIs:
Oh the magic of cameras with IPs:
Two API career paths to highlight this week:
From the city government front:
Hard to tell who is winning when it comes to cloud computing:
Some interesting cloud storage specific items too:
Have to look at comments out of Facebook:
Ony a handful container related stories this week:
I will try to push more content to Tumblr as part of my evangelism work:
A single conversion story to share:
- Parsing EDI to XML (and vice verse) - I was doing some Swagger conversion tools, and came across this simultaneously doing my monitoring. figured it was interesting enough to track on for future reference.
Paying our respects to cURL:
At the cybersecurity front:
Data is always a big thing:
- How This Federal Data Breach Law Could Actually Hurt Consumers - Some interesting breakdown of the security and privacy concerns, but not sure I'm sold on it hurting consumers. Will need more processing...
- Owler Looks at How APIs Fit into a DaaS Business Model - Ok. I will take a look at what Owler is up to as well.
- The Monsanto Privacy Model? Monsanto and Farmer Organizations May be Forging New Path to Data Cooperation - Always a reminder that companies that I may not agree with their overall mission, also listen to what we say, and implement in their own ways.
- What is “The Data Vault” and why do we need it? - Talends take on the data storage problems the enterprise are facing, and how they help provide a solution.
- Factual’s Trusted Data Contributor Program Adds 13 New Partners - A nice look into Factual's Trusted Data Contributor Program.
- The Heart of the Matter: I can’t access the data generated by my implanted defibrillator. That’s absurd. - Just some of the IoT data exhaust conversations going on.
- Data Protection Around the World - More great stuff coming out of DataSift, and this time an important international view of things. Something we are going to need to be more educated on.
- Sharing the Silk Data Handbook - A great, step by step guide to open data, visualizations, and much more. Adding to my stack of reference material.
- Data Journalism in Practice - I did these kind of stories about figuring out, and breaking down areas of open data like data journalism.
- After going bankrupt selling gadgets, RadioShack will now sell customer data - Man. This shit really worries me. Everything goes out the window when companies are being parted out.
- Kevin Merritt Talks Data With GeekWire - Kevin has a lot of experience on the open data front.
- UtilityAPI: Automating the Customer-to-Solar Data Connection : - Important movement with energy APIs. I like how they break everything down. I'm adding UtilityAPI to my stack of energy APIs I'm keeping an eye on.
- Data APIs, design, and visual storytelling - O'Reilly Radar - Man, I couldn't have written a better piece. What are great connection between APIs and visualizations, something I'm working are to connect with my audience. Leaving this tab open for a while.
- Announcing Google Cloud Dataflow runner for Apache Flink - Lots of cloud activity from Google.
- EMC Unveils Federated Big Data Platform - Just tracking on. Not sure I'll have much time to review.
- Set up data explorer for project - An interesting data explorer, and export functionality with GoodData.
- Use PK Chunking to Extract Large Data Sets from Salesforce - Some large data set experience over at SalesForce
The conversation around the data center continues to grow:
Two database items caught my attention:
Couple of deprecation items flagged as part of story:
Devops creeping into the mix:
And like that, drones are on the menu:
- With The Addition Of The DroneKit API, I Am Now Tracking On The World Of Drone APIs · - I have been tracking drones for a while, but just now including some stories in my roundups, as well as more coverage on the blog.
- As Facebook successfully tests its first drone, privacy questions loom - Definitely lots of privacy conversations, which is why I am tracking on.
- Farm Groups Fight For Drone Freedom - One of the many emergy areas of drone space, that crosses over regulation and its collision in a particular industry.
- The FBI has 17 working drones and only two pilots - I'm sure they will have this problem remedied soon. drone skills will be in high demand, and I'm sure the government will work to cultivate their own flock.
- Amazon says the FAA is so slow, the delivery drone it approved is already obsolete - Along with other regulatory areas, I'll keep track on the drone side of things. One thing that comes up a lot is can things move fast enough, whether it is regulation or legal definitions.
- FAA approves some commercial drone flights - Coverage of the recent FAA release.
- National Parks In Africa Turn To Drones To Help Combat Scourge Of Rhino Poaching - An interesting drone implementation, which is one big part of what I track on. The uses, good and bad.
- Pakistan Displays Locally Made Armed Drone - Guess I will track on lethal drone usage, and military centric.
I'm hoping for a lot more election data and API activity in the future:
An interesting email integration between platforms I track on:
The coverage of embeddable comments at Reddit:
Encryption love from aWS:
Some great energy stories this week:
Focus on the enterprise:
The super fun area of facial recognition:
The news worth discussing out of the federal government:
Three things caught my eye in the financial space:
Look fitness from the gaming console!
Hackathon news that makes me happy:
Some of it is more IoT than healthcare, but still pretty robust this week:
- The Final Stage Of Meaningful Use Rules: Will EHRs Finally Pay Off? - Trying to keep up with healthcare world, and the progress of EHRs.
- Beyond wearable tech: How Philips is pushing towards the future of connected health - The overlap between IoT, healthcare, and wearables is definitely a place to watch.
- HHS Releases Two Healthcare Information Technology Proposed Rules - A look into the role the federal government is going to play in the healthcare API space.
- Sensors Embedded into 3D Printed Casts and Braces Will Track Patients Progress - An interesting intersection of healthcare and 3d printing, and sensor & IoT. I'm seeing a lot of crossover like this, and trying to separate the fact v fiction.
- ONC’s proposed 2015 Edition Certification rule pushes interoperability - APIs will play an important role as the pipes.
- Personalized medicine with Northrop Grumman and Google Cloud Platform - Showcasing a healthcare partnership at Google.
- Seniors Wireless combines MVNO model with telemedicine app for seniors - With over 100 million people aged 50-plus in the U.S., the market for telehealth services is expected to grow to 7 million in 2018, up from 350,000 in 2013.
- Text Messaging and Diabetes Management: Public Health Researchers Are Using SMS - Not full on spreadsheet, but in the CSV realm. I store big CSV files on my S3.
- Xbox Fitness now syncs exercise data to Microsoft Health - The healthcare data opportunity around the gaming console.
- In Meaningful Use Stage 3, an API could replace the patient portal for some providers - Trying to keep up.
- Stage 3 Proposal Embraces Open API Movement - More information on APIs in healthcare.
A single, very cool hotel related story this week:
IDE space is coming into focus when it comes to APIs:
Good ideas are contagious in the API space:
Keeping an eye on the international picture:
- Data Protection Around the World - More great stuff coming out of DataSift, and this time an important international view of things. Something we are going to need to be more educated on.
The always active Internet of Things (IoT):
- Enginursday: Arduino Celebration and Hexbugs hacking with Bob Martin - Ok, hacking Hexbugs. Hell yeah!
- Smart meters – not so smart - An interesting take on smart meters not working, and biggest the first casualty of IoT hype. Not sure I subscribe to everything that he lays out, but definitely think we should be skeptical. I will keep an eye out for other examples supporting or against these thoughts.
- Facebook's Parse intros SDKs for the Internet of Things - Of course they are, cause everyone is doing IoT now.
- Resource monitoring solution - An interesting look at monitoring, as applied to the world of IoT.
- Machine consciousness: Big data analytics and the Internet of Things - Just keeping track of the promises, and the big words used to describe what is happening.
- Another Radio Module for IoT fun - Just keeping track of the cool new little gadgets.
- APRS Tracking System Flies Your Balloons - And for my high altitude API tests!! ;-)
- Seniors Wireless combines MVNO model with telemedicine app for seniors - With over 100 million people aged 50-plus in the U.S., the market for telehealth services is expected to grow to 7 million in 2018, up from 350,000 in 2013.
- The FTC is trying to become more of a new technology watchdog - Another take on what the FTC is up to.
- Urban Agriculture and the Internet of Things - You do not hear much about urban agriculture in the IoT agriculture talks I've seen. Temboo is interesting lately with their IoT work.
- Will the Industrial Internet of Things Trend Live Up to All the Hype? - Lots of hyper there is. So many stories in the area of IIoT lately. Someone wants to make it into something.
- The Internet Of Things: Government Gets Ready For A More Connected World With New FTC Division
- Booting up a new research office at the FTC | Federal Trade Commission - This is just the beginning of tracking on what is about to unfold with IoT, and the government has a big role to play.
- Internet of Things Expected to Quadruple in Size by 2020 - Some of the numbers.
- Machine Data for End-to-End IoT System Monitoring - Tracking on monitoring, and how we can push this discuss to not just the device , but also the API layer.
- Manage, monitor, and control all your IoT devices with Overlord - Overlord is a tool that came up on my radar a couple of months ago, and it is interesting to see it used in Iot management.
- Panasonic opens royalty-free portfolio to boost IoT development - An interesting addition to my open source research, and to add to patent thoughts.
Investment blips on the radar:
An important discussion about the legal system in our country:
Libraries stories are the best:
Location is critical:
Pulling back the machine learning curtain:
Some mapping activity I followed this week:
Media is one area Microsoft is kicking butt in:
Mostly about Facebook messaging, but a handful of stories from the week:
The always fun microservices conversation(s):
Mobile chatter:
Museums stories too!
Love this music item this week:
Two new APIs to highlight:
From the mainstream news space:
Telling partners is critical to the space going round:
Some good, some weird patent news:
Strong week for payments:
No really API, but photos are key to what I do:
Interesting police stories this week:
Several fronts from world of politics:
Stories from the Politics of APIs:
A lone printing story:
Lots of privacy chatter to discuss:
Some more protection stories this week:
Two real-time thoughts from the week:
The area of Reclaim Your Domain is an area I showcase much, but track on all the time:
An eye on regulation:
API providers, make sure and provide resources like a calendar of events:
A fat SDK section this week:
Lots more security news, as expected:
Semantics isn't something you see often in my coverage:
I track on sensors, or they'll track on me:
Can't tell whether this is a thing, or anti smart meter propaganda:
- Smart meters – not so smart - An interesting take on smart meters not working, and biggest the first casualty of IoT hype. Not sure I subscribe to everything that he lays out, but definitely think we should be skeptical. I will keep an eye out for other examples supporting or against these thoughts.
Some interesting spreadsheets related items to discuss:
- The API Briefing: Free Federal Energy and Economic Information Delivered Straight to Your Spreadsheet - Ok, this is way cool. Exactly what is needed, not just in government, but across the business sector. Good to see this. I'm hoping to profile more.
- Sharing the Silk Data Handbook - A great, step by step guide to open data, visualizations, and much more. Adding to my stack of reference material.
- CloudFront Reporting Update – New Device Report, CSV, Integration, and More - Not directlky spreadsheet, but CSV related, so its in.
Yes, some state government news I can showcase:
Couple of transparency items that caught my attention:
Obligatory Transportation story:
Showcase the two-factor authentication so it becomes widespread:
Video talk from several of the big API players I track on:
Hacking the wearables this week: