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Redefining API: From Application Programming Interface to Autonomous Partnership Interface

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This is a guest article authored by Max Kuzkin, Executive Director of Software Engineering at CloudBlue Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have...

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Instagram announces a new scheduling post feature for businesses

John Mason5 years ago

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Instagram has recently announced a scheduling feature that allows Instagram business users to schedule Instagram posts in advance. While social...

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The all-in-one video editing, compression and conversion platform with in-built privacy and sharing

Google’s new Perspective API can help you not sound like a jerk while commenting

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Google and Jigsaw launch machine learning platform Perspective to identify comments that may be labeled as "toxic," and you can...

Business

Machine Learning startup DataRPM accepted to Microsoft’s Seattle accelerator program

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Machine Learning and analytics company DataRPM joins nine other later-stage startups in being accepted for Microsoft's Machine Learning and Data Science Accelerator in...

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Payment service Stripe makes its first acquisition, Kickoff

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Stripe, the online payments system for developers and founded by two Irish brothers, John and Patrick Collison, has made its first acquisition; Kickoff.

Twitter: No third-party image services please

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Twitter’s removing third-party image services from its official apps

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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With all of Twitter's rules, display guidelines and API changes over the last few months, it's quite clear that Twitter now wants to be in complete control of its service. So much so that it is removing third-party image services like TwitPic and yFrog from its official apps.

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Get Twitter RSS feeds with these one click bookmarklets

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Get any user's Twitter RSS feed or a Twitter search term's RSS feed using these browser bookmarklets.

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StumbleUpon reaches 25 million users, plans to localise in Europe

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Content discovery engine StumbleUpon reached 25 million registered users this week, growing from 5.5 million just three years ago, according to CEO Garrett Camp who spoke to TechCrunch's Anthony Ha.

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Getting started with Google Schemer

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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As Google's location-based, activity-focused social network, Google Schemer, gains traction our FAQ looks at how the site works, and how you can access it.

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Manage Google+ Pages using third-party clients like HootSuite

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Managing Google+ Pages for businesses and organisations just got a lot easier as Google today announced a limited pilot programme granting six companies early access to the Google+ API. These six initial test partners are Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, HootSuite, Involver and Vitrue.

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Google+ to support Google Apps accounts in “coming days”, relaxing real name policy

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Google+ Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra and Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed on stage yesterday at The Web 2.0 Summit in California that Google's new social network will begin to support Google Apps accounts in the "coming days".

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Twitter RSS feed generator

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Use our Twitter RSS generator to create RSS feeds for Twitter users, Twitter lists, and Twitter search.

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Here’s how to create an RSS feed of a Twitter List

Piers Dillon Scott12 years ago

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It is easier than you might think to generate an RSS feed for a Twitter list. Here's how to do it

Brains Byte Back

Brains Byte Back interviews startups and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. Together with our guests, we explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better and sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing for the new information age, join us every other Friday on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your podcast. BrainsByteBack guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Pr

One week before the pandemic hit, unaware of what was about to take place worldwide, Taylor Hersom quit his job as a Chief Information Security Officer for a local firm in Austin, Texas in the hopes of finding a similar position elsewhere.

Between working at Deloitte where he advised Fortune 500 companies on compliance and security tactics, and his more recent position at the local firm, Hersom didn’t anticipate finding a new job to be a difficult feat.

However, as the pandemic set in, his interview offers dried up, and he turned to UpWork in pursuit of a job. In the beginning, he applied for as many posts as he could find in order to build up his review score.

He began taking on clients and quickly realized that startups needed a lot of help with security and compliance, and he knew this could become a genuine business for him. But what he didn’t realize was just how in demand his services would be.

As time went on, Hersom moved away from UpWork and took on staff to build a team in order to meet demand. Shortly after this, on January 1, 2021, his new company Eden Data was born.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, Hersom, CEO and Founder of Eden Data, shares how the team has grown in such a short period of time by taking a positive approach to security instead of the traditional fear-based approach.

In other words, instead of securing customers using fears tactics such as telling prospects if they get hacked they will be fined, receive bad PR, or be hated, Hersom advocates that strong security can show prospects that you care about them and their data, which can successfully close more deals.

Hersom also shares how their subscription approach to security and compliance has helped them stand out in this market, allowing them to scale alongside the startups they work with.