Google introduces AI to cloud-based development environments, enhancing productivity and efficiency for developers.
Meta to Release Advanced A.I. Technology to Developers for Free
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is giving away its latest A.I. technology to developers for free. By open-sourcing LLaMA 2, Meta aims to foster collaboration, innovation, and responsible use in the tech industry.
Google Gives Android Developers a Donut
According to multiple reports, Google is now offering developers a crack at some Android 2.0 features at the Android code repository. Android 2.0, which was codenamed "Donut," was discussed at the Google I/O developer conference earlier this year. To listen to what Google had to say, watch the following clip (the Android part starts a couple minutes in).
Facebook Opening Up User Profiles To Third Party Developers
The arms race between Facebook and Twitter or social media supremacy has its good and bad moments. The good is that all of this ‘one-upsmanship’ should eventually lead to better tools for social media users. The bad news is that we have to hear about every time someone at one of these two companies has a thought.
eBay Launches Selling Manager For Third Party Developers
eBay has announced it is beta testing its subscription-based Selling Manager service platform that allows third party developers to embed their applications at My eBay where professional sellers manage their business.
The platform is used by 270,000 online sellers in the U.S. to manage their business. eBay says it will no longer charge for its Selling Manager service in an effort to attract third-party developers.
Developers Taking Advantage of Best Buy’s API
Last month Best Buy announced a new social and API-driven initiative to give its web business a boost. The Best Buy Remix Developer Network comes with an affiliate plan that lets developers earn commissions if the traffic they send to BestBuy.com results in a sale.
Advertisers and Developers Monetize Social Media Apps
Facebook has been encouraging developers to monetize their apps. They’ve recently gone so far as to create resources to help developers build business models around them.
One example of app monetization at work comes from the company Offerpal Media. This is a company that not only utilizes Facebook in its business model, but MySpace and other social networks as it enables both advertisers and developers to monetize apps.
Facebook Shares Custom Tags with Developers
Today Facebook announced "custom tags" for developers for use with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) applications. FBML is the language used to create the Facebook apps you have come to know and love.
Yahoo Launches Open Strategy for Developers
Today, Yahoo has gone live with it’s "open strategy" or Y!OS, which is Yahoo’s way of opening up their products to third party developers in order to attract wider use, and to come up with some useful functionalities that will help them compete better with companies like Google and Microsoft. Y!OS consists of three major components:- Yahoo Social Platform- Yahoo Query Language (YQL)
Netflix Opens API to Developers
Netflix has opened its API to third party developers to use within their own applications, and has even authorized commercial use of it. The company is supplying Javascript, REST programming, and Atom feed API components. The API can be used in the following capacities: