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HootSuite users can extend the platform's functionality with three new apps available immediately in the App Directory: Digg, TrendSpottr and InboxQ. More apps are expected to roll out soon.

There has been a growing debate about the utility of location-based applications. Some say they are the future of the gaming industry, while others don’t think that location-based apps are meeting their potential. However, most agree that location-based native and web app development has never been more popular.

Most users (and many businesses) think of Google as an endless source of great free stuff, but that may be coming to an end as the company starts charging for heavy usage of its Maps API service.

We all know what it’s like when our eyes are bigger than our stomachs. When your ideas are bigger than your technology, it can feel similar. What was I thinking? How is this not a viable option? Great ideas are only as rewarding as the ability to execute them successfully and now thanks to ON24, they just got easier, too.

ON24 is a provider of webcasting and virtual event solutions. Today, it's released a widget architecture and a set of application widgets designed to increase engagement, activity and functionality within the virtual event environment. 

Last we spoke about Kapow Software, it introduced Kapow Katalyst as the future of data integration. Today, it introduced Kapow Mobile Katalyst, an integration platform that can enable and deploy business applications in a mobile environment. If history repeats itself, we may be looking at the future of mobile engagement.

In many ways people are looking forward to HTML 5 and its expanded list of features. However, there's a number of aspects that have privacy advocates worried. In particular, people are concerned about geolocation. Fortunately the W3C (news, site) is working on solutions.

One of the challenges of designing for new devices, like the iPad, is that some of the functionality that’s commonplace on other familiar devices isn’t yet fully developed.

The release of version 1.6 of Woodwing’s Digital Magazine Tools aims to change that.

Google's (news, site) Analytics suite powers a lot of the Web's ad management, but for most has only been a reference dashboard. The new API will let devs get under the hood and create custom tools.

It's hard to absorb the rest of the web experience if all you have to offer is a walled garden. Facebook's (news, site) solution? Spread itself out onto the web like vines (or is it weeds?) over the wall through a new API.

The W3C (news, site) has been busy. They've released seven documents related to HTML, one of which is of interest to anyone working with HTML and another to anyone involved with the semantic web.

If you've ever wanted all your information in one place, your lucky days are upon you. The stars have begun to align and Santa is delivering some early Christmas gifts, including Google's FeedBurner RSS feed that automatically publishes to Twitter, WordPress blogs that can be posted to and read from Twitter apps, and a new Facebook URL shortener.

In May, Nordic River united productivity and collaboration with the release of the web-based version of TextFlow. This month, Nordic River has made its TextFlow Application Programming Interface (API) available.

eDiscovery solution services all aim to save customers and companies time and money. Due to the non-linear structure of eDiscovery, there are so many ways to go about making the process, whether it be pre-processing, data collection, filtering, review or post-processing phases, more pleasant for the user.

IBM (news, site) is focused on the analytics part of eDiscovery. Today they announced new IBM eDiscovery software with advanced analytics features. The goal is to help clients not just find information, but have them understand it better.

Seek and ye shall find. There certainly isn't a lack of things to discover. So much so that LeapFish.com recently announced that traffic on its search aggregator has tripled since the site’s November 2008 launch. What is so special about LeapFish?

Back in October, the New York Times created and released a Campaign Finance API (Application Programming Interface). Designed to let users analyze and re-use some of the data the NYT had been looking at while reporting on the presidential campaign, the API offered overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. They also launched a movie API, which allows users to search New York Times movie reviews by keyword and get lists of NYT Critics' Picks.

Now the Times has released a new API offering every article the paper has written since 1981 -- 2.8 million articles.