Category Archives: Technology

8 Ways to Use Instagram’s API | Mashable

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Instagram has become one of the web’s most popular platforms for photo and video sharing. To help users integrate the social network even further into their daily lives, it has released a public application programming interface (API).

For those who have never heard the term before, an API is a seamless software-to-software interface, meaning there is no user involvement during the passing of information. For example, when you enter credit card information to make an online purchase, the website sends your credit card information through an API to another application, which confirms that the provided information is correct.

By using Instagram’s public API, users — tech-savvy or otherwise — have a number of options on how to best implement the code. For some ideas on how to begin, here are eight basic ways to use the API for your own online presence.

Discusses:

  1. Search Tags
  2. Incorporate Photos on Websites
  3. View Photos from Specific Locations in Real Time
  4. View Popular and Trending Photos
  5. Print Photos from Events and Tags Instantly
  6. Make Custom Items
  7. Market Venues, Events and Businesses
  8. Create Event Live Feeds

Read 8 Ways to Use Instagram’s API | Mashable.

At This High School, You Go To TEDx Class | Co.Exist

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Read: At This High School, You Go To TEDx Class | Co.Exist | ideas + impact.

At This High School, You Go To TEDx Class | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Libraries of the Future [Infographic] | LibraryScienceList.com

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Libraries of the Future [Infographic] | LibraryScienceList.com

Libraries of the Future

The Internet is Important to Everyone [Infographic] | OCLC WebJunction

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The Internet is Important to Everyone | OCLC Web Junction

The Internet is Important to Everyone

The 10 Commandments of Content | Co.Create

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See the story for the full discussion: The 10 Commandments of Content | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce

  1. Find Your “Why”
  2. It’s Not )All) About You
  3. Insights Inspire Ideas
  4. Go All The Way
  5. Be Social At The Core
  6. Don’t Post and Pray
  7. Be Authentic
  8. Be The Expert
  9. Loosen Your Grip
  10. Expect Results

E-readers ‘more effective’ for some dyslexic readers | BBC News

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Short lines of text on electronic devices may help some dyslexic readers increase their reading speed and comprehension, research suggests.

Read the full story:  E-readers ‘more effective’ for some dyslexic readers | BBC News.

The State of Digital Marketing in the Networked Age | Pew Internet

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As Demographics Shift, Kids’ Books Stay Stubbornly White | NPR (June 25, 2013)

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Story posted June 25, 2013.

When it comes to diversity, children’s books are sorely lacking; instead of presenting a representative range of faces, they’re overwhelmingly white. How bad is the disconnect? A report by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only 3 percent of children’s books are by or about Latinos — even though nearly a quarter of all public school children today are Latino.

Read: As Demographics Shift, Kids’ Books Stay Stubbornly White | NPR.

Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries | GoodEReader

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Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries. 

Now, OverDrive is partnering with HarperCollins on a second installment of the project, this time using a children’s book and including school libraries in the experiment. In addition, the audiobook of this title will be available as well at no-cost and with multiple checkouts, just like the digital title.

Read: Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries  | GoodEReader.

What APIs Are And Why They’re Important | ReadWrite

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If you work with APIs, you already know why they’re important. But the rest of you may well be wondering: What are APIs, and why do we care so much about them?

Read: What APIs Are And Why They’re Important | ReadWrite.