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 […]
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 […]
