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BuildDec 21, 2016
Building Intelligent Q&A Apps with Wolfram Alpha API
Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that allows users to submit a question, any question, and receive a comprehensive answer. It uses natural language understanding to parse user queries and retrieve answers from a highly curated data set. With Wolfram Alpha, you can give knowledge of geography,...
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 21, 2016
Tracking Real-time Custom Metrics Apps with Librato API
How to monitor, analyze, process, and visualize real-time data in a real-time application using the Librato block.
Michael Carroll
InsightsDec 16, 2016
The Connected Car Security Problem No One is Talks About
Matthew Young is a Boston based freelance writer. As an aspiring automotive journalist looking to make a name for himself in the industry, he is passionate about covering anything on four wheels. When Matthew is not busy writing about cars or new emerging tech, he usually spends time fiddling with his...
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 15, 2016
Sending Transactional Email from Real-time apps: SendGrid
Trigger the sending of a transactional email based on a user’s actions or an action in a real-time data stream, like sensor readings, a chat message, or a collaborative app.
Michael Carroll
ChatDec 14, 2016
Content Moderation and Filtering for Real-time Messaging
Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → The Internet is an amazing place full...
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 13, 2016
Analyzing Real-time User Sentiment with Lexalytics Semantria
The Semantria API from Lexalytics allows you to categorize and extract text, and analyze it for sentiment and emotion. The Lexalytics block lets you process real-time data streams while they are in-motion, enabling you analyze and categorize text and run functions based on the result. For example, you...
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 9, 2016
Real-time Presentation Remote Control: reveal.js + PubNub
We would like to introduce you to Salvatore Cordiano. He is a full stack web developer with over 6 years of experience in web, mobile and software development. He recently gave a talk at the Chatbots Milano Conference in Milan and he surprised the audience with his slides. He used PubNub to allow the...
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 6, 2016
Real-time Text Translation with SDL Language Cloud
Text translation services can be useful in a variety situations, such as content accessibility for users from different cultures, real-time augmented reality text translation, integration with text-to-speech services, translation to a common “hub” language, and other cases where the input...
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 1, 2016
Speech Recognition and Voice Activation Tutorial Roundup
When it comes to interfaces and hardware, voice functionality and speech recognition continues to grow in both adoption and capability. Voice technology, both local and cloud-based, is being built into every device category. From smart TVs (Apple TV), to kitchen hubs (Amazon Echo), to web browsers, smart...