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 [...]
I’m a contributor to an O’Reilly book, “Building eCommerce Applications“, being handed out at the X.commerce Innovate 2011 conference. The book contains four chapters by yours truly: A three part series on using and building your own PayPal-enabled plugins in WordPress, plus one chapter on the ins and outs of Bitcoin. In order to get [...]
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:
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. [...]
TechCrunch published an article this week noting that Internet journalist extraordinaire Robert Scoble "revealed that PayPal is launching something big with Facebook in two weeks", presumably at the X.commerce Innovate conference. Read the TechCrunch piece for more information on who they've spoken with to confirm the pending announcement to their satisfaction. Once you've satisfied yourself [...]
This is the fourth and final article in my series on using Google’s App Inventor for Android and eBay web APIs to build Android commerce apps. The first article walked you through how to install App Inventor and start using it to build and share Android apps. It also discussed some of the limitations of [...]
Google has launched their NFC-based Google Wallet payment solution. Click here to read the announcement post. There are some very particular requirements to use this first public release including: You must have a Nexus S 4G phone on the Sprint network You must pay with a Citi MasterCard or Google Prepaid Card (the latter is [...]
This is the third article in my series on using App Inventor for Android and eBay Web Services to build Android commerce apps. The first article introduced App Inventor including how to install and start using it to build and share Android apps. The second article outlined the available App Inventor components. It then focused [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
