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Category Archives: Blogging

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Developer Evangelist position

Jason Elkin of CityGrid Media is looking for a Developer Evangelist. If you’re interested, drop him an email (be sure to mention I sent you, please). DEVELOPER EVANGELIST Can you evangelize products for one of the largest local ad networks? Do you have an infectious enthusiasm for technology and mobile and web development? CityGrid Media [...]

Launch of the Health Graph blog

I’m excited to announce that RunKeeper has launched a new Health Graph blog! You can access the blog at: http://blog.healthgraph.com/ There are links on the blog to subscribe via RSS and email. The blog also links to recent @healthgraphapi tweets and our Health Graph Facebook page. Here’s the first post to give you a feel [...]

O’Reilly Android Open conference app and live stream

O’Reilly Media has posted a link to download the Android Open conference app to your smartphone or tablet. Click here to grab the app. O’Reilly is also live streaming keynotes, interviews, and more from the Android Open conference today and tomorrow in San Francisco. Watch it here:

New horizons at Innovate and beyond

It's been a little over fourteen months since I started regularly blogging on X.com.  A lot has happened during that time in the world of payments, and for me professionally, too.  I have some personal news to share in a moment, but let's recap payments developments and look at next month's big ticket item first. [...]

Notes from the week of 2011-09-04

RunKeeper and the Health Graph API Docs for the @HealthGraphAPI including Overview http://t.co/fWjHH3l and OAuth 2.0 Registration & Authorization info http://t.co/PiVc8D8 # In honor of Steve Jobs, fan runs Apple-shaped route #RunKeeper http://t.co/w8qgpLE # Perfect 10 out of 10 review of @RunKeeper http://t.co/mSvKs4E from @iphoneappstorm # Both @RunKeeper and partner Withings will demo at Health [...]

Integrating Payments into WordPress, Part 3: Build Your Own PayPal Plugin

This is the third and final article in my series on using the WordPress weblog and CMS system. In the first article I introduced WordPress (aka “WP”), provided links to documentation to help you get up to speed with WP, and then showed you how to install and start using it. In the second installment, [...]

Too many April showers

We’ve had some pretty serious April showers in my part of the US and they didn’t bring May flowers, but rather flooding.  I myself am high and dry, but many others aren’t so lucky.  I hope this monthly update finds you well wherever you are. As for PayPal, payments, and developer highlights from last month, [...]

Notes from the week of 2011-05-01

PayPal X Platform New @PayPalX series: "Integrating Payments into WordPress, Part 1: Features and Getting Started" http://bit.ly/fGwYea # Part 2 of my "Integrating Payments into WordPress" series focuses on @PayPalX plugins http://bit.ly/e3DlIm # Comments from @factual CEO in "An iTunes model for data" http://oreil.ly/jqePgT echo my @PayPalX data markets series http://bit.ly/ecZ3Rm # How @PayPal can [...]

Integrating Payments into WordPress, Part 2: PayPal Plugins

In my previous article I introduced WordPress (aka “WP”), provided links to documentation to help you get up to speed with WP, and then showed you how to install and start using it. This time I want to describe the WordPress plugin model. I’ll make some recommendations for plugins that are not only useful, but [...]

Integrating Payments into WordPress, Part 1: Features and Getting Started

I’ve explored a number of ways to integrate the power of the PayPal X Platform into your applications in my DevZone articles over the last few months. Recent installments have shown you how to accelerate your Adaptive Payments development using the Apigee PayPal API Console and how to buy and sell digital goods in data [...]