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Interesting play by an MIT team. Question is, does it work well enough to make more people want to get on bikes?
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A nice cogent example of how implementing different APIs can lend some really cool results.
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The comment thread is predictably pointless, but I love the names of the sections of this new literary genre: “Praeinstallatio, Contrainstallatio, Descendo, Depilatio…”
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Key quote: “all these new implementations of the Twitter API tend to lessen the importance of teh Funnel” (aka Twitter as a standalone service). Part of what makes a technology community is the API, and lots of tools and services communicating with an API means it’s successful. Reimplementing the API in a different cloud allows a ridealong effect. There’s probably a good technology strategy project in this for some bright business researcher.