Viadeo Dev Challenge: Meet the winners!
Developers from around the world submitted their applications to the Viadeo Dev Challenge, a 5-week long competition, which ended on Sunday, October 16th. After evaluating the apps individually first, jury members met for the final deliberation at Viadeo’s San Francisco office on Friday the 21st. Robert Scoble, Myles Weissleder, Richard Ling, Hermione Way, Kin Lane (who couldn’t be there on Friday), Arturo Garrido and Christophe Thibault decided on the three winners below: First prize winner: AvriGeo is a 3D visualization […]
Calling all Hackers!
It’s a good time for developers! Hackdays, dev contests, API platforms opening everywhere… The San Francisco dev community has a lot of opportunities to shine! First the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, very soon the Twilio Hack Night, next weekend the HTML5 Hackathon at Eventbrite, which Viadeo is sponsoring, and of course the Viadeo Dev Challenge, still ongoing since its launch at SF New Tech! Indeed, at the Bring on the APIs event, Viadeo launched a Developer Challenge online, running until the 14th […]
Bring on the APIs!
300 people gathered last night at Mighty, downtown San Francisco, for SF New Tech’s Bring on the APIs. An all-geek event organized by Myles Weissleder, that Viadeo’s PR team thought of at Web 2.0 Expo back in February while discussing with Myles. The idea was to showcase Viadeo’s partners and other companies working on cool social services for an API-only evening. 8 companies presented their APIs and all the fun stuff you could create with them. Beers and free tacos […]
How to create a social website using APIs
There are only a few days left to go before the official US launch of the Viadeo API at Bring on the APIs in San Francisco - Join us to find out why you should be interested in social APIs for your business! So we asked Amy Reams, Business Development Manager at Gigya, a successful integration platform for websites and social networks, to give her thoughts on why developers and entrepreneurs should be interested in social APIs and how they can […]
Create your own start up in 54 hours!
Have you ever dreamed about creating your own business? This was the dream of the more than 200 people who showed up at AOL headquarters for the Bay Area Startup Weekend in Palo Alto on August 5-6. 54 business/tech start-up ideas were pitched and then 15 of them were selected for people to work on with the ultimate aim being to create a viable business by the end of the weekend. Start-up mentors Iein Valdez, Hiten Shah, and Teddy Zmrhal were on […]
Networking comes to your desktop
Keeping tracking of your Viadeo network updates alongside tweets and posts from your other social media channels just got easier – Viadeo is now available as part of Seesmic Desktop 2. This means users can: Access their newsfeeds Recommend and comment on posts Post new messages Share updates and articles Cross-post to Twitter Send messages to other Viadeo members View contacts’ profiles and activity This is just the first in a series of steps we’re taking to give you more access […]
Viadeo app for Salesforce announced today
Viadeo is delighted to announce a partnership with Salesforce.com, the world’s leading CRM and cloud computing company. The first part of the integration will be a Viadeo app available at the end of this month via the Salesforce AppExchange. What does this mean for you? This means you will be able to access socially enhanced information about your potential clients, connect with prospects through your network and keep up to date with their status updates and Viadeo network news for […]
What are the benefits of integrating with Viadeo?
Recently Wayne spoke at Fresh Business Thinking Live! about the possibilities and advantages of integrating with a professional social network. If you didn’t get chance to attend the conference take a look at this quick video for an overview: Want to know more? For more information on the trends leading to this evolution, the business benefits and potential applications take a look at the white paper we recently researched and produced on platform integration with a social network. Extract from […]
