Posts

The explosion of APIs in recent years means that developers have all sorts of data at their disposal for use in their applications. Getting data from multiple APIs work to work together can be tricky, and that’s whereUberbliccomes in. The Berlin-based team at Uberblic Labs has created a product that links data across APIs so that developers can easily create powerful mashups. Georgi Kobilarov, founder and CEO at Uberblic, explains, “A location-based product, for example, would aim to pull in information like checkins from Foursquare, reviews from Yelp, concerts from LastFM and social connections from Facebook, and display all that along one place’s description....

Uber(formerly known as UberCab), the controversial, game-changing car booking service that is only available in San Francisco, will be launched in Europe. The news was announced during an interview with The Next Web to be published tomorrow. Unfortunately specific dates weren’t revealed but if it has as much impact as it had on the US, it’s something to be very excited about. The concept behind Uber is both simple and intuitive....

Here’s one that we didn’t see coming. TechCrunch isreportingthat UberMedia, the parent of many applications including the previous UberTwitter, has acquired TweetDeck. The sum, from what we’re reading, is in the $25 to $30 million range. TweetDeckhas had a total of $3.8 million in funding, as provided byBetaworksandRon Conwayamongst others. The recently-named UberMedia, headed byBill Gross, has had its acquisition guns blazing lately in the Twitter space, first withEchofonand then more recently with the UberTwitter buy....

UberMedia, a company famous for itsacquisitionof some of the most popular Twitter applications and its recent blockage by the popular microblogging company, is quietly testing a new mobile web client, offering smartphone owners another way to tweet on the go. If you visitm.ubersocial.comin your mobile browser, you will be presented with a landing page and you will be asked to connect your Twitter account to enable access to your account. Upon connecting my account, I was able to view the tweets from the people I follow, but I also noticed it was very similar to a mobile web app I had used previously – a service calledDabr....

Here’s an interesting one.UberMedia, the company that owns popular Twitter apps such as UberSocial, Echofon and Twidroyd, is said to be planning to create its own rival social network. According to a report today fromCNN, the new service “would seek to attract users by addressing common complaints about Twitter, such as its restriction on the length of a message and how it can be confusing to newcomers.” While UberMedia hasn’t officially spoken out about the supposed plans, CNN cites three sources said to be in the know....