Developer Garden Newsletter | July 2009
Here comes the Developer Garden newsletter for July to get the summer started.
New APIs: Conference Call and Local Search now ready
Alongside the existing Voice Call, Send SMS and IP Location services, the Developer Garden can now bring you two more services: Local Search and Conference Call.
Local Search 1.0 - Get to where you want, faster
Local Search enables you to search for key words linked to places, regions and categories. To do this, the search for relevant results runs through over six million records. You may use the service free of charge until September.
Conference Call 1.0 - one for all and all for one
Conference Call links multiple phone call subscribers at the same time. It makes no difference whether your friends are using a fixed or a radio network, or whether they are in Germany or elsewhere. To plan your conference, you can specify, who you want to call when, and for how long. At the agreed time, all the participants are phoned automatically. There are no basic fees or one-off payments. Charges are per participant per minute.
New payment method - more flexibility with PayPal
In the Developer Garden, paying by credit card is no longer your only option, as it is now easy for you to use PayPal, too.
PayPal have over ten million customer accounts in Germany alone, making it one of the most successful ePayment systems. It means that one in three of the approximately 32 million online shoppers in Germany have a PayPal account. Once on PayPal you can choose from the most popular local payment methods, such as direct debit, credit card, or online transfers via giropay. You can also pay into the PayPal account with your credit.
Developer Garden Contest: describe your mashup of the future!
Gradually, in the Developer Garden, new services are being integrated that enable all sorts of mashups to be developed with the Deutsche Telekom APIs. But what will happen long-term in this area? In which combinations might APIs be used? What sort of application scenarios are there for APIs? In short, what does the mashup of the future look like?
Write an article about it:
- in your blog and by Trackback in the Developer Garden Blog
- in the comments about the tender on the Developer Garden Forum
- send by e-mail to: apps@developergarden.com
- as a tweet - remember: use the hash tag #devgarden
For the best five articles, the Developer Garden jury, chaired by Thomas Mörsdorf, will award a Developer Garden pack including a credit worth EUR 50 for your Developer Garden account.
Entries close on Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 23.59 p.m. The jury’s decision shall be final.
Looking back - The Developer Garden in Berlin at the IT Profits and MonetisationCamp in Berlin
On June 24 and 25, 2009, Developer Garden were at IT Profits 5.0 in Berlin, which ran in parallel to the Linux fair.
On the Wednesday, Thomas Mörsdorf, Deutsche Telekom’s Senior Vice President Technology Management, delivered the keynote “Creativity and Innovation in the Telco 2.0 Age” in the “Communication & IP Services” subject area.
On the Thursday he officially opened MonetisationCamp 2009, which kicked off as part of the Online Profits event. And, in one of the Camp sessions, Christian Krassowka from the Developer Garden Team showed how open APIs can be used to set up profitable business models on the Web.
See here for images and further information about IT Profits and MonetisationCamp 2009.
