luni, 20 mai 2013

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Daft Punk - Goat Lucky [Video]

Posted: 20 May 2013 06:19 PM PDT



Daft Punk + goats who yell like people = not the funniest thing you've seen in your life but it hits a certain spot, that's for sure.


Some Men Shouldn't Be Allowed To Use Photoshop

Posted: 20 May 2013 05:57 PM PDT

Of course, women aren't totally innocent, either. BUT these men suck at Photoshop..

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Wadi Al-Salaam: The Largest Cemetery in The World

Posted: 20 May 2013 04:57 PM PDT

Wadi Al-Salaam is an Islamic cemetery, located in Shia holy city of Najaf, Iraq. It is reputed to be the largest cemetery in the world. It is estimated more than half a million corpses are interred in the cemetery each year. The cemetery covers 1485.5 acres (6 km²) and contains millions of bodies.

























College Professors Have Fun

Posted: 20 May 2013 12:28 PM PDT

College professors have their fun too..





























































The Ultimate Wedding Cost Checklist [Infographic]

Posted: 20 May 2013 09:48 AM PDT

All weddings are different, so use this list to highlight what your needs and nice to haves are. By having an idea of what costs you need to budget for, you can shop around for the best prices. This infographic on the wedding planning checklist is brought to you courtesy of the loans team at Aussie.

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APIs for Data-Driven Marketers

APIs for Data-Driven Marketers


APIs for Data-Driven Marketers

Posted: 19 May 2013 07:51 PM PDT

Posted by Dr. Pete

Data is everywhere, and companies are virtually climbing over each other to give it away. If you’re a data-driven content marketer, data is opportunity, but accessing that data can take some technical know-how. This is a guide to APIs, one of the key methods for accessing 3rd-party data, and also a mini-directory of some of the most useful APIs currently available to marketers.

What Is an API?

Let’s start with the official definition – API stands for “Application Programming Interface”. Sorry, I’m not the one who lets engineers name things. Put simply, an API is a way to let you talk to a 3rd-party application, usually either to retrieve data or update that application. We’re going to focus primarily on the first use (retrieving data), and it looks something like this:

Simple API Diagram (Send Request, Get Data)

The API itself isn’t really a box floating in space, so much as a chunk of code that acts as a gatekeeper. That code helps translate the third party’s data into something you can read, and it makes sure that only authorized users can access the data (a process called “authentication”).

Why Should I Care?

There are hundreds of applications on the market that collect useful data, and many of them are making that data available for free or very cheaply. You can use that data to do original research, create unique content or even build your own applications. If you’d rather stick to beet farming, well then that’s cool, too.

Where Do I Start?

Here’s the bad news – APIs are far from standardized, and you’re going to have to understand data structures and write some code. This is not a how-to manual so much as an overview of what’s out there that can help you decide if the world of APIs is right for you. There are some bright spots on the horizon – tools and sites that make programming APIs easier – and I’ll cover some of those at the end.

Following is a list of hand-selected APIs (I’ll do my best not to play favorites, and our competitors are on the list), broken down into a few industry categories, and alphabetical within each category. For each API, I’ll provide a main link, a documentation link (documentation can be way too hard to find), a brief description of what’s available in that API, and whether or not there’s a free version. APIs are split into five sections:

  1. APIs for SEO
  2. APIs for PPC
  3. APIs for Social
  4. Miscellaneous APIs
  5. API Support Tools

The last section covers sites and tools that can help you if you're new to APIs, new to programming, or just are hunting for something that's not on this list.


(1) APIs for SEO

This section contains APIs for organic SEO data, including keyword research and link profiling.

Bing Search (Docs)

The Bing search API allows you to integrate Bing search results and search data directly into your applications, including web search, images, news, videos, related search, and spelling suggestions.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


Majestic SEO (Docs)

The Majestic API includes a wide range of link metrics, including full back-link lists, discovery dates for links, anchor text, redirection information, and ACRank. Some features are limited to the paid version.

Free Version?  YES, but limited functionality.


Raven Tools (Docs)

The Raven Tools API lets customers access and update account and campaign information. It can also be used to access link data from your Raven campaigns.

Free Version?  NO, paid accounts only.


SEOmoz Mozscape (Docs)

SEOmoz's API has access to proprietary metrics, including MozRank, Domain Authority, and Page Authority, as well as link metrics such as linking root domains and anchor text data.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


WordStream Keyword Tool (Docs)

WordStream's Keyword Tool API lets you access WordStream's keyword volume metrics, along with related keywords and structured keyword suggestions.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


(2) APIs for PPC

The following APIs provide access to major ad platforms, including Google, Bing, and Facebook.

Bing Ads API (Docs)

While primarily a campaign management platform, the Bing Ads API does have access to useful data, including keword volume and keyword suggestions/opportunities.

Free Version?  YES, but authorization required.


Facebook Ads API (Docs)

The Facebook Ads API provides access to managing Facebook campaigns, as well as statistics about Facebook keyword searches and audience segments.

Free Version?  YES, but authorization required.


Google AdWords API (Docs)

Like Bing, the Google AdWords API is mainly for campaign management and building AdWords apps, but it also the only portal to Google keyword volume data. Getting authorized can be a long process.

Free Version?  YES, but authorization required.


SEMRush API (Docs)

The SEMRush API has a number of tools for both organic and paid search campaigns, but where it really shines is in competitive analysis, especially for paid search.

Free Version?  NO, starts at $15/month.


(3) APIs for Social

These APIs can access a wealth of information from major social networks and social aggregators.

Facebook Graph (Docs)

Facebook's "Graph" API is the primariy interface to building Facebook-based apps, updating Facebook accounts, and accessing Facebook social graph data. There are other, secondary Facebook APIs.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


FollowerWonk (Docs)

FollowerWonk's Social Authority API scores Twitter users on a 1-100 scale, for simple influence scoring and comparisons (Note: FollowerWonk is a part of SEOmoz).

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


Gnip (Docs)

Gnip provides an enterprise-level API with "firehose" and filtered streams for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, and more. Pricing is custom and is aimed at large-scale applications.

Free Version?  YES, but trial only.


Google+ (Docs)

The official Google+ API allows you to manage accounts, build apps, and access to data from user profiles, posts, and comments. It includes some limited search capability.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


Klout (Docs)

The Klout API provides access to Klout's aggregate social metrics, including Klout score, influencers, influence graphs, and topics of influence.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


PeerIndex (Docs)

PeerIndex is another social aggregator, and their API provides data on multiple influence metrics, including activity, authority, and audience scores.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


SharedCount (Docs)

The SharedCount API lets you access sharing stats on a number of platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, LinkedIn, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Pinterest.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


Topsy (Docs)

The Topsy Otter API is an alternative source for Twitter data, including a number of useful search functions - search by keyword, by links mentioned, by popluar stories on a domain, etc.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


Twitter (Docs)

The official Twitter RESTful API includes many tools for account management and data gathering, including individual tweet and user data, follower stats, and a variety of search options.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


(4) Miscellaneous APIs

Here are some other useful APIs, including Google products, analytics, and text processing.

AlchemyAPI (Docs)

AlchemyAPI provides a Natural Language Processing engine to perform tasks such as sentiment analysis, named entity extraction, author extraction, and topic categorization.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


Google Analytics API (Docs)

The Google Analytics API is a full-featured system to manage GA accounts and profiles, customize tracking codes, and to access and export analytics data.

Free Version?  YES, but authorization required.


Google Places API (Docs)

The Google Places API allows you to access the entire family of Google local data, including Google Maps, Google+ Local, and Google Places search.

Free Version?  YES, but authorization required.


PageSpeed Insights (Docs)

PageSpeed Insights is a Google Developer tool for website performance analysis. The PageSpeed API allows access to PageSpeed scores and recommendations.

Free Version?  YES, but authorization required.


Repustate (Docs)

The Repustate API provides access to a number of advanced algorithms, including sentiment analysis, social media monitioring, and predictive analytics.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


(5) API Support Tools

If you're new to APIs, this section can help get you started or find APIs outside the scope of this post.

CodeAcademy API Track

CodeAcademy is a resource for learning programming concepts and languages. The API track has specific online courses designed to help you learn API coding.

Free Version?  YES.


Mashape (Docs)

Mashape is an API marketplace that allows you to access over 2,000 APIs from a single account. Mashape also lets you distribute and monetize your own APIs.

Free Version?  YES, depending on the API.


ProgrammableWeb

ProgrammableWeb is a directory of over 9,000 APIs on a wide variety of topics. ProgrammableWeb has its own API, that allows you to access their search database.

Free Version?  YES.


SEER Interactive SEO Toolbox (Docs)

SEER's all-in-one interactive toolbox lets you access multple APIs via Excel, including Google Analytics, SEOmoz, Majestic, Raven, Twitter, and Klout.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


SEOGadget Excel API Extensions (Docs)

The SEOGadget API extension for Excel allows you to easily call link data from Excel spreadsheets, including SEOmoz, Majestic, and additional SEOGadget data.

Free Version?  YES, but rate-limited.


What Are Your Favorites?

While I don't intend this to be an exhaustive list of APIs, I'll try to keep the post up to date with the most useful APIs for marketers (assuming that people are interested). So, feel free to share your favorite data-collection APIs in the comments.


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Seth's Blog : You should buy the book

 

You should buy the book

Mitch Joel is a generous and perceptive blogger. Well worth the daily read. He has a new book. You should buy it.

David Meerman Scott writes an essential blog, daily. His book is a classic. You should buy it.

Tom Asacker writes a very thoughtful blog about marketing. Worth the read. He has a new book. You should buy it, too.

Every day, Mark Frauenfelder and Cory Doctorow blog tons of goodness at Boingboing. They each have books. You should buy them and share them.

Bernadette Jiwa's blog keeps getting better and better and you are probably already reading it. She has a new book on the way. You can guess what you should do.

There are authors and actors who only show up when they have something to sell, who hit the road to briefly entertain us, pitch us and then leave. If you love their work, then by all means, buy it! But the frequent blogger is here for another reason. He or she has something to share and is relentlessly showing up to teach and lead and connect.

If you want that to happen more, if you're getting something out of it, buy the book.

[I actually hestitated to write, "should," because it puts books into the same category as classical music and supporting NPR. No one says you "should" buy comic books or go to action films...

Buying books is actually scary for many people, so they make up excuses about not having enough time or money. The reason that books are frightening is that they might make us feel stupid, or we might get a lousy one or we might end up feeling like a failure for not finishing it. This is pretty common, actually.

I think buying books from consistent bloggers is a little different, though. First, you're probably not going to be disappointed with what you get. Second, it's almost always their best work, because it doesn't feel as ephemeral as a blog post to the writer or reader--it's a far more focused and direct shot to your neocortex. And third, most important, because it's a very concrete form of encouragement (not just for the writer! but for the reader too), one that will selfishly make it likely you get more blogging from the very people you'd like to hear from more often as well as reminding you, the reader, that you're worth the effort and investment.

Plus, when you're done reading, it's a generous act to share one.]

     

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