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I Crashed the Volkswagen Press Conference at #CES2015

January 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

vwpavilioinWell, actually, I didn’t crash it (I had a press pass), but I did stumble in late… 🙁 Would you believe, just as it was wrapping up? Damn long cab rides! But there were still lots of people milling about on stage, and both the vehicles were still there. So, I grabbed some photos, and the press kit on my way out.

The red car is the Golf R Touch, which was attracting the most attention, and the white car is an e-Golf, their electric car, which looked lonely in comparison. (But who needs that now with cheap gas, right?!) They showed a “Connected Golf” version of that car, which is a set of features that seems to be their major focus at CES.

As a big VW guy myself — I’ve owned or leased six or seven of them in my lifetime, and I’ve been driving them exclusively for 10 years now — I just had to find out what was new.

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Minnesota Mobile Dev Firm DoApp Sells Real-Estate Tech to California’s CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX)

November 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

[Note: This post first appeared earlier today at Minnov8.com, where I am a contributor.]

doapp-coreMinnesota mobile technology firm DoApp Inc. announced today it has sold its mobile real estate platform to publicly traded CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a global property information, analytics, and data-enabled services provider based in Irvine, California. Seven DoApp employees, 40% of its workforce (which is based in both Rochester MN and the Twin Cities area), are now CoreLogic employees — including Dave Borrillo, previously DoApp’s COO, now a VP of mobile technology at CoreLogic. None of the employees has to relocate. Other terms of the deal were not announced.

The DoApp-developed mobile real-estate platform has been the technology foundation for the CoreLogic “GoMLS” app. GoMLS gives real estate agents and consumers access to in-depth listing and property data using their mobile devices. DoApp said the GoMLS app has been downloaded by homebuyers and sellers over 400,000 times to date.

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‘MobCon’ Attracts Mobile Minds to Minneapolis

November 17, 2014 / / 1 Comment

mobconsmallOne of our largest locally sponsored tech events here in Minneapolis is the MobCon Conference, dubbed “Where Mobile Minds Connect.” The third annual version was held November 13th & 14th, 2014, at the Hyatt in downtown Minneapolis. The event is put on by MentorMate, a large mobile development firm that was recently acquired by Taylor Corp. Sponsors for this year’s MobCon included many local firms, among them such bigcos as Target Corp and USBank.

The highlights for me were three speakers:

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My Coverage of #Gluecon 2014: Seven API-Related Stories Written for ProgrammableWeb

May 28, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Glue-stageI attended the Glue Conference May 21-22 in Broomfield, CO, and a pre-event on May 20 called API Strategy & Practice. It was my sixth Glue in a row, since the event began in 2009. It's been a very popular developer event, and has grown each year — now attracting approximately 650 attendees. There were 70 speakers, selected from some 500 who applied. I've written extensively about each of the six Glue Conferences I've attended. This year, I reported for ProgrammableWeb for the first time. (More about that site below.)

Here are my seven posts from #Gluecon 2014, in chronological order of the particular sessions that I wrote about:

• Developers at Roundtable Ask, ‘Are APIs Copyrightable?’ (863 words)

• ‘API First’ Isn’t Just for Startups Anymore (529 words)

• How to Secure Your REST API the Right Way (411 words)

• 10 Reasons Why Developers Hate Your API (918 words)

• Reverb, Apigee Announce Swagger 2.0 Workgroup (720 words)

• As APIs Proliferate, Can Search Scale to Keep Up? (388 words)

• API Design Should Be About ‘Interactive’ and ‘Tinkering’ (600 words)

I also shot a bunch of photos at the event, as I always do. Here's my Flickr set of Gluecon 2014.

About ProgrammableWeb:  As the world's leading source of news and information about Internet-based application programming interfaces (APIs), ProgrammableWeb is known as the Web's defacto journal of the ProgrammableWeb-logo API economy. Since it was founded in 2005, ProgrammableWeb (now based in San Francisco) has been chronicling the daily evolution of the global API economy while amassing the Web's most relied-on directory when it comes to discovering and searching for APIs to use in Web and mobile applications. In 2014, Gartner identified ProgrammableWeb as one of several “Cool Vendors” in Information Innovation. It is also the most widely-cited source of data related to APIs in the mainstream media, conferences, whitepapers, and other forms of research. ProgrammableWeb is where you can keep-up with what's new and interesting in a world where the Web is a programmable platform. When it says "the Web is a platform," it is referring to how Web-based and mobile apps are enabled by Internet-based APIs. For example, the way in which the developers of many location-aware apps are able to incorporate Google Maps into their wares with just a few lines of code (using the Google Maps API). Read more about ProgrammableWeb here.

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