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Talking about Google, Evercam, Jobs.ie �. together with Adam McGuire

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Congratulations to Lisa and the GGC Crew �. first place in the finals of the K-Pop world festival !

Off-stage, Lisa choreographs the Evercam team and organises www.apidublin.com :)

Thanks to the Travis, Andreas and all the team at Nordic APIs 2014.

This was the return trip, 12 months later from when we decided to take the best of Camba.tv the cloud CCTV system and build Evercam -The Developer Platform out of it.

I've learnt a lot from the API community around the world since then, many of whom I met for the first time in Stockholm 2013.

Many thanks, here's the video:

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Yesterday Marco, Vinnie and myself spent the day at the Telefonica offices pitching to be part of the�Dublin Academy, an incubator program organised by Wayra, owned by telco giant Telefonica. �We were one of 15 finalists who got to spend the day seeing what Wayra was all about. �We were treated to interesting talks, mentoring, plenty of food � and the all important pitch.

The competition was really tough with startups at every stage and in every field. �I chatted with several companies enviously hearing about their multiple paying customers and interesting business models. �The pitch itself was pretty nerve-wrecking with a curtained corridor leading to an Apprentice style set-up � 7 intense looking judges waiting to pick holes in your pitch. �But they were great and asked intelligent and probing questions.

And it went really well. �Out of the 15 finalists, 9 got picked � and we were one of them! This is amazing for us. �Not only does it mean we get to take part in a nine month intensive accelerator program, we also get office space for the company and mentoring from industry experts.

The whole day was really enjoyable and so smoothly organised by the Wayra team. �They were hugely professional and looked after all of us nervous looking folk.

We�ll be celebrating with champagne and�kayaking down the Liffey�past our new offices.

Check out the video of the�finals.

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Customers love transparency. We like to know who we�re doing business with and we like to buy things from people we trust.

That�s why companies like Tesla and Rover have made the seemingly radical decision to open up their CCTV systems to their customers. They�ve turned the very definition of Closed Circuit Television on its head by opening it up and turning it into a powerful sales and marketing tool.

Customers of both the latest Tesla electric cars and the new Rover Mini can actually watch as their own personal vehicle is assembled. And why shouldn�t they ? These factories contain some of the greatest technology and manufacturing excellence in the world � that�s what the customers are buying when they choose these brands.

Make no mistake, this change was not lead by the security department, long conditioned to think in the mindset of keeping others out, locking down access and protecting the companies secrets. These innovations were led by the marketing departments who know the value of inviting customers in, of building trust and pride in not only the appearance of the company, but also the core internal processes.

However it�s not only a marketing tool, we�re seeing the same drive for transparency coming from other directions too. In particular in the food industry where mistakes in one part of the supply chain can cause long term damage to the entire industry affecting everyone from the farmer to the retailer. Here in Ireland, where agriculture is a cornerstone of our economy, we have led the way with transparency. Even in the places one might least expect to find the sharing of video information � the meat processing plants � it is now a requirement by the major retailers that they have on demand access to the CCTV on the factory floor. As Lenin said, �Trust is good, control is better�.

From the business owner�s perspective, the opportunities here for competitive differentiation are huge and the great news is that in most cases it�s just a case of getting some value out of a cost that has already been sunk. Usually the cameras are already in place, it�s just a case of hooking them up to a system such as Evercam that allows fine grained, secure control over who can see what and then reaping the benefits of a more open, more efficient organisation.

The social world is constantly evolving. The best known social media channels have for some time now championed the power of accessibility, connectivity and unity.

Whether its Skype allowing a grandfather see his granddaughter 7,000 miles away or Twitter allowing fans from all corners of the world have instant real time updates; from the life of their favourite celebrity.

Facebook makes it possible for you to follow the progress of a long lost friend in detail, so much so that no life surprises arrive should you meet them for the first time in 5 years! Instagram, provides users with a list of pictures relative to a person, place, thing, word or topic. While Vine, builds the same with their intermittent video approach.

All these successful companies had and have different social strategies for success. Common to all however, is the incredible power of imagery.  Be it in video or picture form, imagery can afford people a more detailed description than even most descriptive language. It feels more real and speaks all languages.

Here at Evercam, we believe in the power of the image and more importantly, the camera. Our overall mission is to make cameras programmable. Our API allows developers to interact with social media API�s like never before.

For example, how would you like a �tweet-able� camera?!

Above, we see where a hashtag in a tweet creates a call to action that triggers a response with a live image. Essentially, a user can tweet a camera and have it tweet back its view :o

Now�. What can you think of to have Twitter and cameras work in unison? Or� Cameras and Facebook or Instagram or Vine or Flickr or Pinterest or Tumblr or Flickr or����.. ? Facebook recently revealed we upload a whooping 350 million photos per day! Are you ready to explore boundless possibilities?

Connect to Evercam now and open up a world of Social Media potential!

Today we�re launching Evercam Play, designed for viewing your Evercam cameras.

Get it on Google Play:

The API�s used in Evercam Play were:

• Evercam REST API� � Evercam account management, fetch camera list and�URLs.
• Evercam.Java�� A Java wrapper around Evercam API that can be directly invoked in any Android/Java application.

Please send us your feedback and suggestions.

A big thank you to Techcrunch for the opportunity to be on stage at Disrupt NYC.

Sometimes, wandering through the web, �one comes across great wisdom.

To whoever the creator of this was, thank you.

So true.

40 minutes to address the issues around developing software for cameras and building APIs for cameras.

I�d love to hear from others planning to be at the event, it looks like�a great line up��. Stripe, Twilio, Evernote, Netflix �. that�s a lot of �APIness in one room.

Today we visited Mick Crean, CEO of www.micksgarage.com

Mick�s Garage (www.micksgarage.com) are one of the largest online distributors of car parts delivering to over 70 countries. Last year, as an experiment, they included a live image of each parcel as it was being shipped to their customer.

This is the story of the impact it had on their business.

�Overnight we saw the number of customer complaint calls collapse. We also believe it had a positive impact on the care and attention paid by our workforce on the packaging line.�

Immediately the cost overheads were reduced and customer satisfaction was increased.

�A secondary benefit came from what we call �The WOW factor� � customers started posting online about how delighted they were to see the actual picture of the parcel before it got to them. This was new to them and it emphasised the association of MIck�s Garage with technology, innovation, and automation.�

Instant retrieval of these images had other unexpected benefits too:

 �Despite working with the best delivery companies, sometimes packages go missing. By being able to provide pictures of each parcel it was easier for them to find and recover lost items.�

Evercam provide software to any company that helps them to integrate cameras or images into their business processes. We�ve helped process over 4m live camera images since 2010 and currently handle more than 50,000 each day. Evercam solutions are in place for industries as diverse as food production, tourism, social media and supply chain management.

Here�s the deck from a short talk we gave at API Strategy Conference in Amsterdam in March.

Rules for success when developing for cameras. from Marco Herbst

Many thanks to 3Scale and API Evangelist for a great event !