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Innovate 2011 Highlights

I was recently privileged to attend both the O’Reilly Android Open and X.commerce Innovate conferences back-to-back in San Francisco. Both were mind and network expanding events, and I’d highly recommend either to developers and business colleagues considering attending next year. I hope to write more about my key takeaways from Android Open at some point [...]

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 [...]

RunKeeper rocks!

I am pumped to announce that I’ve joined RunKeeper as Platform Evangelist for the Health Graph API. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement on the RunKeeper blog discussing how and why I’m so excited to join the team: My personal journey into running, and thereby to RunKeeper, started a couple of years ago. I decided [...]

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. [...]

New content locations on X.com

By now you've probably noticed that PayPal has launched its reworked X.com site in anticipation of merging in the eBay and Magento developer sites in the near future. All in all, this is a good thing.  But there are some issues that you, as a developer community member, should be aware of.  The biggest in [...]

Notes from the week of 2011-09-25

RunKeeper and the Health Graph API "Beers, Brilliance, and Baby Tooth" http://t.co/bZlQHS8P @RunKeeper hackathon recap from @sarahhodges # Another @RunKeeper hackathon write-up http://t.co/sktfk5ew (this one from @terriblelabs) including video of the event http://t.co/YBxAAPUQ # The future of health and fitness http://t.co/7qJt6iT3 and @runkeeper & the @healthgraphapi within it from @thenextweb via @sarahhodges # Health 2.0 [...]

X.commerce Innovate conference speakers and tracks

We're less than one month away from the X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference and if you're attending, it's time to start sorting out which speakers you'd like to listen to and maybe meet and discuss your questions, issues, or problems with. The conference schedule is available online (click here to access).  The main conference runs October [...]

Breathtaking Earth flyover

Stunning time lapse composite of ISS images as if flew over North and South America. Must watch!

PayPal’s vision for shopping and payments

PayPal gave the world a sneak peek this week of some of the new technologies and initiatives they'll be launching at next month's X.commerce Innovate conference. As PayPal President Scott Thompson noted in his blog post: PayPal is re-imagining money and making it work better for merchants and consumers – whatever device you’re on, wherever [...]

Notes from the week of 2011-09-18

RunKeeper and the Health Graph API How to improve your lactate threshold http://t.co/8ADdjWN via @runkeeper # I love @runkeeper examples like this one http://t.co/ooCgJRZ in the @fastcompany "What's Next For The Check-In?" piece # Two of my favorite apps @evernote @runkeeper mentioned in the same article http://t.co/xysok4YU # Visual of logging @runkeeper activities to @evernote [...]