Archive for the ‘api’ Category

Flash for iPhone – all systems go

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Finally a praise from my side to Adobe. They pulled it off and are making Apple’s life both easier and harder. Flash CS5 will now support iPhone App development, sold though the app store. This, along with the fact that Adobe just launched their fully supported player on literally all mobile platforms, pretty much marks a new era for mobile apps. One for all has probably never been more true. The major hurdle for application developers were operating system and hardware differences like screen sizes, etc. Now if Adobe manages to enable all hardware feature access (GPS, etc.) then we are pretty much game…

Here some rather boring examples Adobe came up with so far: click here

More open: OpenSecrets.org is opening their database

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

opensecrets_opendata

There is something with potential. Watchdog group OpenSecrets has relased API, etc. to access their large amount of data. Here a few samples of what’s to play with:

- Campaign Finance: 195 million records dating to the 1989-1990 election cycle, tracking campaign fundraising and spending by candidates for federal office, as well as political parties and political action committees.

- Lobbying: 3.5 million records on federal lobbyists, their clients, their fees and the issues they reported working on, dating to 1998.

- Personal Finances: Reports from members of Congress and the executive branch that detail their personal assets, liabilities and transactions in 2004 through 2007.

- 527 Organizations: Electronically filed financial records beginning in the 2004 election cycle for the shadowy issue-advocacy groups known as 527s, which can raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, labor unions and individuals.

Given our times, this is just like cake.

via infosthetics