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BlueVia Internship Programme

October 28, 2011 1 Comment

We’re very proud to announce the start of the BlueVia Internship Program.

Sebastian OrtegaThe BlueVia Internship is an initiative aimed at BlueVia community developers.  It aims to promote international relations, technical collaboration and business development for entrepreneurs and innovation enthusiasts from Germany, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, UK and very soon, Brazil too.

The program offers the opportunity to access any of the spaces in BlueVia co-working centers in several cities.

Over a period of three months, developers will be guests of BlueVia and can share experiences and knowledge of their home countries, while acquiring knowledge of the countries they visit.

The first developer to take up the Internship is Sebastian Ortega, Quanbit CEO, a developer and entrepreneur active in Buenos Aires.  Sebastian has been spending time at TechHub located in the centre of London

He has participated in initiatives such as Red Valleys, an extensive network of entrepreneurs from Argentina, is a regular contributor to the Global Investor magazine and RedUsers, both widely distributed throughout Latin America.

If you would like to meet Sebastian during the three months he is making use of TechHub in London, please don’t hesitate to contact him at TechHub. We reckon you’ll find the experience worthwhile.

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Python tutorial to help developers getting started on BlueVia APIs

October 12, 2011 2 Comments

BlueVia has been designed to be as accessible as possible for any developer using it.  That’s why we’ve created a simple to follow Python tutorial, which we reckon is a good starting point for developers, even as we launch new APIs.

Topic 1: Python Library + tutorial

a) Sample Code

We don’t have an official SDK/library for Python, but Python is relevant because it is one of the languages of the Google App engine.

This library allows python developers to use the following API’s

Note: We will not guarantee that this sample library will be updated with each release. Nevertheless it is a good starting point for developers even if we come up with new APIs (and we did, payment is live, but not supported by the python sample library)

It can be downloaded from Github.

b) Tutorial

Additionally we’ve written a tutorial on how this sample code is implemented and how to use it.  This might be a helpful resource for some developers starting from scratch.

It covers the whole cycle from generating API keys to setting up the developer’s environment to implementing the library.

This also can be downloaded from Github.

Topic 2: Objective C Library + Sample app for OSX and iPhone

We also want to make it easier for developers using Objective C on the Mac and iOS platforms.

We’ve created an Objective C library that supports:

  • Send SMS/MMS
  • Track SMS/MMS delivery
  • User context
  • Location
  • Advertising (both 3-legged and 2 legged)

As we noted above, we can’t guarantee this will be updated, but it should be helpful for developers getting started.

It can be downloaded from Github.

Finally, we created two sample apps with this library.  These are no shiny end customer apps but they visualize the API and the results.  They can be downloaded from Github (BlueVia4OSX and BlueVia4iPhone).

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The race is on to nominate the UK’s most innovative places

October 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

The UK is a hotbed of innovation.  But it doesn’t just happen in large, well-known clusters like Silicon Roundabout or Silicon Glen.

That’s the thinking behind an attempt, launched today by Wired UK, O2 and Foursquare, to celebrate the most innovative locations in the UK with a new top-secret Foursquare badge.  Each of these organisations is a well known supporter of innovation, which is why they are working together to discover where it happens in the UK.

Many start-ups and digital businesses owe their creation to ideas shared in the hubs, incubators, campuses and co-working spaces that exist in every town and city in the country.  And the hope is that, by launching a new Foursquare badge, it will connect more people with these places.

Foursquare Innovation BadgeBut there’s one big question: which locations in the UK truly deserve to be called the most innovative?  Which places are worthy of the new Innovation badge that will soon be launched by Foursquare, O2 and Wired UK?

This is your chance to help answer this question.

Your chance to help design a Foursquare badge

Today, Wired has launched the search on its Facebook page for those places in the UK where innovation happens.  They asked us to help support it because we’re plugged into so many of the developers, software architects and visionaries who have made use of the UK’s innovative work spaces.

If you want to nominate a space, just go onto the page, enter the Foursquare venue ID and explain why it should qualify for the badge. With your help, over the next few weeks, we’ll compile our list of innovative spaces from all over the UK.

We want everyone involved in the creative, digital and tech industries to nominate venues from every corner of the country that deserve to be on the list.  So why not head over to Facebook and let us know where you met that investor, had that moment of inspiration that led to a successful app, or simply somewhere where you had a good time with like-minded creative people.

The badge could help other people to benefit from these innovative places in the same way you have.

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We want the world to hear about BlueVia, warts and all

October 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Last week was London Mobile Week. It was a jam packed week of amazing mobile related events, many of which BlueVia was proud to sponsor. London Mobile week also saw the début of a new approach for promoting BlueVia.

And if you’re a mobile developer, we think you might be interested in it.

As we head into the final quarter of 2011 we have reached two important milestones:

  1. We now have thousands of developers working on the platform, creating great product. We will continue to publish case studies of cool stuff created using BlueVia on our Slideshare account [link], so stay tuned
  2. We have already attended, sponsored, coded and presented at more than 100 events across Europe, North, and South America, and there are still two and a bit months left in 2011! Wow!

With this in mind we came to the conclusion that probably many people were bored listening to the same old faces from the BlueVia team!

Putting our developers centre stage

Therefore we have now decided that when we have stage time at an event, we will turn this time over to one of the developers working with the platform whenever possible. Our thinking is you want to hear what it is really like working with BlueVia from a fellow developer, warts and all, not a nice slick marketing presentation from us.

Well, we put this approach to the test last week, with our first two developer presentations being delivered by Peter Swain from Always On Message at Planet of the Apps and Yosi Taguri from Labgoo at DroidCon UK (you can see their presentations and slides below).

Based on initial feedback at the events, this approach seems to have been well received. Below you can watch the presentations and review the slides. Please let us know what you think.

If you want to be featured at one of our future events, get in touch.

Peter Swain at Planet of the Apps

You can view or download Peter’s slide deck or watch the video of his presentation:

Yosi Taguri at DroidCon UK

Watch Yosi deliver his presentation at DroidCon UK here:

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