Mike Brevoort

Mike Brevoort is a software developer living in Denver, Colorado. Follow him on Twitter.

Stories by Mike Brevoort

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A Day of Javascript on Mobile

These days it’s hard to ignore the groundswell of the co-mingling of the words “mobile” and “HTML5″. Mobile is where it’s at in 2011 (if it wasn’t already in 2010)…

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Apigee + Heroku Announce Twitter Integration on Steroids

The explosion of mobile and web apps integrated with social media networks like Twitter and Facebook continues. As more services offer and expand their APIs, developers have the difficulty of…

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Google Releases Details On How You Convert a Website into an Installable Web App

Last week at Google I/O, Google announced the Chrome Web Store, an upcoming “online” store for web apps built into Chrome.  There are a lot of questions about how this…

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Everything you Need to Know about Android 2.2 in a Neat List

Today at Google I/O developer conference in San Franciso, Google announced the 7th release in the Android OS v2.2 code named “Froyo”. Android to date has had accelerating success including…

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Prezi Shows Off Collaborative Presentation Editing in Google Wave

Prezi, the unconventional “zooming presentation editor,” built a cool collaborative editing and presentation Google Wave Gadget that they are showing off at Google I/O. Embedded in a Google Wave, the…

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Seesmic and Socialwok Partner to Bring Socialwok to Seesmic Desktop

As the Google I/O machine is just firing up, Seesmic and Socialwok announced a partnership with a Socialwok plugin for Seesmic. Rather than developing a desktop client themselves, and continue…

Outlook Made Social with Socialwok

Socialwok has released a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook called the Socialwok Outlook Social Connector. It lets Outlook users view a sender’s Socialwok activity stream along side of a received email message…

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SocialCast CEO Talks Upcoming iPad App and Future of Social Media in The Enterprise

I recently spoke with Tim Young, CEO of Socialcast. Tim is always a pleasure to talk to; each time we speak he recommends a new book to read! A fervent…

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Socialwok Plans Corporate Annihilation with Premium Features and Microsoft Office Integration

Last fall I wrote an article comparing the key players in the enterprise microblogging space. Since writing that comparison, it’s been interesting to watch as each services’ strategy has morphed…

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Defrag 2009: A Retrospective

I spent the last two days at the Defrag Conference in Denver, Colorado. Defrag is, in its own words “focused on the tools and technologies that accelerate the ‘aha’ moment,…

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An Enterprise Micro-blogging Comparison: Yammer, Socialcast, Present.ly... and SocialWok

I’ve spent the last several weeks diving into many of the “enterprise”/private SaaS microblogging services available (a.k.a Twitter for the enterprise). This all began when I was trying out the…