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Vringo is a company that provides a program that can convert a video file, image or even a slideshow into a ringtone. A very personalized experience for you ringtone freaks out there. The company has recently announced that it has tied up with Avea, a Turkish mobile provider. It is slated to bring this service to Turkey. This is the very first, for your information, carrier based video ringtone subscription service in the whole world. The service will provide a trial period of 60 days before you can proceed with a monthly subscription plan. It is also reported that Vringo will sell video ringtones via pay-per-clip for those subscribers who wants more. Before tying up with Avea, Vringo operated independently and is doing very well in the business.

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Akismet API is a blog spam prevention service. Akismet is basically a very big machine that gathers all the data it possibly can, looking for patterns, and learning from its previous flaws and faults. And so far, it has been highly efficient in stopping spam in blogs and adopting new techniques and tries to avoid it. Only time will be able how it measure up. The Akismet api is fairly simple but a very powerful tool. Api interaction was designed to be as simple as possible. To interact with the Akismet api fully, the program should be prompt in gathering back data in to the system, likewise when when its taking the data out. You must employ a system where users can submit missed spams and false positives so that the api can learn from the previous mistake it did.

Podcast had its beginnings in the proliferation of downloadable MP3 files and can be played on the iPod device. This encouraged users to share their music with others. They soon found out that they could create, upload, and download information not just music. So some users loaded various types of firmware to suit their demands. Furthermore, RSS feeds provided a way to generate machine-readable files, which could then exchange data between the servers and the users. Blogs also used RSS to keep their readers up to date on blog posts. Podcasting since then became another form to share files, and users began to view podcasting as a way to become virtual DJs. A software was then developed to check, link and download files. Podcasting grew to become a useful tool, by individuals who didn?t have iPods, but utilize podcasting as a technology for receiving music and entertainment over the Internet.

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Application programming interface or API is a set of method, classes, functions which is provided by a operating system which provide support to other application that is use by the end user. API is defined as a higher level because that it can be compiled when an application is built. Some of us don’t know but we usually use API every time we are using our computer. A good example of this is Microsoft Windows DirectX which is make for handling task about multimedia and video. It is commonly use in running our high graphic games. API is a abstract, in that it specifies an interface and the behavior of the identifiers specified in that interface; it does not specify how the behavior may be implemented. Based on my knowledge because of API being abstract it’s the primary cause of computer hang. Some API are exclusive for company use or company trusted programmer use while some are open for the public.

Microsoft Popfly beta uses Silverlight to enable you to “create stuff”. What’s it all about? According to Microsoft it’s “helping non-professionals build everything from Xbox games to Robotics to custom Web applications using Windows Home Server”. Think of it as the painless way to create an application, build apps and share mashups. Just what kind of content can you integrate? Video, audio, images, EXEs and JavaScript, Ajax libraries, HTML, XHTML, CSS, and Visual Studio Express projects. With 25 MB of free storage, you can share your Flickr slideshows and YouTube videos on your webpage or Facebook profile, or tell others what you’re doing on other websites. With Popfly, you can create games, quizzes and polls for your website without knowledge of code

Microsoft Silverlight is a plug-in for .NET based web applications for the Web that supports AJAX, Visual Basic, C#, IronPython and IronRuby, and works with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. It aims to make HD video, Deep Zoom technology and cost-effective streaming available, and to deliver rich interactive applications (RIAs) that can be monetized. Use Microsoft of third-party tools to develop apps or browse the API library. Windows Live ID and other Windows Live APIs can be used on the Silverlight platform. It is downloadable for free.

Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live is a free hosting and streaming solution for high-quality RIAs with up to 10GB storage and 5 TB bandwidth per year while in beta. Later on, streaming will be free with advertising or for a nominal fee. Silverlight Streaming offers a UI free of branding or restrictions and up to DVD quality streaming.

It’s impossible to ignore that so much is happening in San Francisco this month that we couldn’t help plugging another event . Here’s another one that’s more general, but asks the big questions like “where are we going?”. Geared toward tech people, business executives, investors and industry analysts, Supernova brings in the big names from IT and the academe to talk about the future of the industry and the implications of social media. It could be the place to meet the people who could take your garage-based API startup to new heights. Supernova will be held at Mission Bay Conference Center and Wharton West on June 16 to 18.

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference slated on June 9th to 13th at Moscone West, San Francisco, promises to be the place to be for developers of everything Apple. They’re touting Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone OS as development platforms waiting for you to take full advantage of their capabilities. At the WWDC, the engineers behind them will show you what you can do. More than 150 sessions and labs are scheduled over the five days, plus lunchtime talks and the Apple Design Awards, and opportunities to meet fellow developers and IT professionals. Unfortunately, WWDC is sold out for attendees. The good news is that you can purchase session videos on iTunes in due time.

Most individuals have a number of public profiles and blogs. But it can be tedious to make all the connections with all your contacts from one site to another. Enter the Social Graph API, which shows public connections between people. Programmers can use this data to come up with an “add friends” functionality. Publicly available information and relationships from indexed webpages are used for this API. The Google crawler looks for links indicating that a profile is a “friend” or “me”. Open standards like XFN (XHTML Friends Network) and FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) are used to show relationships. Test drive the example apps such as Site Connectivity, My Connections and Parameter Playground.