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Nature Education is delighted to announce the launch of a new series of affordable, high quality interactive textbooks in college-level science. The first textbook in the series, Principles of Biology, is intended for university-level biology courses. Principles of Biology consists of 200 customizable modules collectively covering chemistry, genetics, cell biology, animal physiology, plant physiology, and ecology. Each module is a self-contained learning experience, combining textual instruction, high quality figures, simulations, interactive exercises, self-tests, and formal tests.

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Remember those college days when college texts cost substantially more than $50 used, and they were almost always used for only a single class? Well, with Nature Publishing Group's interactive, digital textbooks, what you get is a super bargain, since you're paying just $49 for a lifetime of up-to-date vetted content! The first textbook in the series, Principles of Biology, is intended for university-level biology courses, which consists of over 200 customizable modules covering subjects like chemistry, genetics, and ecology. Each module is a self-contained learning experience, combining textual instruction, high quality figures, simulations, interactive exercises, self-tests, and formal tests. How neat!

Diet Share lets you tell your friends about healthy dishes (and warn them about unhealthy ones) at your favorite restaurants. Diet Share connects with BodyMedia to share the progress of your diet with friends.

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Remember that New Year's resolution you made to get back into shape? Well, what better way to do that than with the free Diet Share app. We all know that sticking to a diet and going out to eat can be really difficult. With Diet Share, you'll be notified of what healthy dishes and unhealthy dishes are at different local restaurants. You'll also be able to share your progress with friends to help with encouragement and simultaneously see how well your friends are doing, too. It also doesn't hurt to add that we're also big fans of the clean, simple interface, too!

The WeatherBug API allows you to access live observations, forecasts, weather cameras and severe weather alerts. The WeatherBug API is the only place where you can access data from the WeatherBug Network of weather tracking stations. Data from the WeatherBug network is accurate, live, and localized. A team of meteorologists is constantly monitoring the network for data quality and our technologists are making sure that the data is delivered to you live.

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We love the Samsung 'Smart' Fridge, but especially love the app features available on the fridge's wi-fi connected LCD screen. Having real-time weather information available and conveniently located in your kitchen through the WeatherBug API, you'll not only be prepared before you head out to your next outing, but also ready for any anticipated storms during your next BBQ cookout! The Weather Bug app will allow you to access live observations, forecasts, weather cameras and severe weather alerts!

The Simple.TV DVR replaces your existing cable box with a smaller, less power-hungry (and frankly better-looking) device. It's a powerful HD tuner and DVR in one simple package. Just connect an external USB hard drive for storage, plug in your TV and Ethernet cables and complete the setup with your PC or Mac browser.

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The Simple.TV DVR replaces your existing cable box with a smaller, less power-hungry (and frankly better-looking) device. It's a powerful HD tuner and DVR in one simple package. Just connect an external USB hard drive for storage, plug in your TV and Ethernet cables and complete the setup with your PC or Mac browser. We also love the fact that Simple.TV won at this year's CES event as the Best of Show.

The app is an interactive map of the world of movies. It makes it fun to discover new movies to watch. You can navigate through the entire interconnected ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of movies and find new movies that are similar to movies that you like

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Wondering what movie to watch this weekend? Have no fear DiscovrMovies will help you decide what movies you should watch based on similar movies you like. Utilizing the great mix of the Rotten Tomatoes API and the Rovi API, users get the benefit of receiving the best of both worlds. We're also huge fans of the app's interactive map, which makes discovering new movies just as fun to search as it is to watch the movies!

Frugal Flyer HD does not sell airline tickets. Instead, Frugal Flyer HD identifies the major airlines including American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways, JetBlue, Delta Airlines, Continental Airlines, Lufthansa,easyjet, Air France, Ryanair, British Airways, that fly the route you want and lets you see offers direct from them. Frugal Flyer HD also searches the major hotels including Hilton, Holiday Inn, Marriott, Motel 6, Days Inn, Courtyard, Premiere Inn, Hampton Inn, and Best Western. Frugal Flyer HD also searches rental cars including Hertz, Avis, Enterprise and Payless. Frugal Flyer HD provides access to offers from Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, Hotwire, Travelocity and others.

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We love how Frugal Flyer HD has the capabilities of comparing travel offers -- from airline type, to hotel, to travel package offers -- all directly from their site. In fact Frugal Flyer HD was named "Best Travel App" by TabletReview (Oct 25, 2011). The application is very easy to switch between offers and to see everything each airline offered. Users are able to find the best flight at the lowest price hassle-free. Overall, a great app! The
new airport tab now also provides real time arrival and departure boards for all the worlds airports!

Macy's has started testing the innovative Beauty Spot concept, featuring interactive kiosks designed by Possible Worldwide. Now, cosmetics customers can search and select products from various categories across multiple brands, without having to visit counter after counter.

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Wondering which red lipstick to wear for your next girls' night out? Look no further than to your Macy's Beauty Spot kiosk! These life-saving kiosks incorporate Macy's data to help you explore a wide range of product options, with the provision of detailed product information, all in one place. Convenience while shopping? We think it's "winning."

The Link is a WiFi-enabled infrared puck and app combo, that allows you to control up to eight devices in your home theater from the comfort of your touchscreen sans pesky dongles or cases. After downloading a free app, pocket-sized iDevices and Android smartphones can act as universal remotes over your home network, while iPad users also get the benefit of personalized TV listings from Rovi.

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What's cooler than tapping into your Wi-Fi network with your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android smartphone and using your device into a universal remote? With an immersive experience that allows users to download a rich personalized program guide. If another one of your home theater dreams just came true, then Harmony Link has come to make life a bit easier

HotelPal is the easiest way to reserve hotels for road trips, last-minute plans, cancelled flights and more, with no hotel booking fees. HotelPal is a mobile hotel searching and booking application powered by the Expedia Affiliate Network.

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It's so easy to find the right hotel at the right price with HotelPal. Browse and book from over 100,000 hotels worldwide. Live rate availability, full-screen photos and in-app booking make hotel reservations a breeze.

HowStuffWorks provides credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. HowStuffWorks uses the Shopping.com API to enrich their content by integrating Shopping.com product and merchant listings within their articles.

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Great site that tells you how stuff actually works and then provides product information and merchant listings right next to relevant articles.

Snickers Marathon Bar performance tools is dedicated to active consumers looking to get involved. Together, Snickers Marathon Bar and Active strive to engage consumers—putting them on the path to a healthy lifestyle while helping participants achieve their goals along the way.

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Have a tasty snack and get in shape at the same time. Snickers Marathon Bar has partnered with Active to enhance their interactive online community with healthy local activities.

Milo searches the shelves of your local stores in real-time to find the best price and availability for the products you want to have - right now. Milo is fueled by the Best Buy BBYOpen API with product and availability information.

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Milo.com makes it easy to access the best of both online and offline shopping worlds—all in one place.

The Iams Mobile Web App is the result of a wonderful association between Yahoo! and Procter & Gamble. This web app lets the user search for nearby veterinarian, pet store, breeder, trainer, pet boarding services, pet grooming services, dog parks and much more! Use this app to serve all your pet's needs!

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For all you animal lovers out there, here is an app for you! The Iams Mobile Web app helps you find exactly what you need for your pets in your local area to be the best pet owner you can be.

Dex CityCentral is a hyper-local discovery iPad app that provides comprehensive city information. The app utilizes FanFeedr's API to provide sports news, photos, and information about local teams.

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Great hyper-local discovery iPad app that gives you the inside scoop on all the happenings in your city. Love the unique local content including local professional and college sports coverage provided by the FanFeedr API.

ResellerRatings is the largest independent retailer rating system on the web. ResellerRatings uses Shopping.com's API to marry its tremendous retailer reviews with the web's largest comparison shopping site.

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ResellerRatings finds the best place to find what you are looking for on the web.

With over 8,000,000 unique visitors annually, NYC.com is the most widely regarded website for New York City tourist information on the Internet.

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Travelers worldwide can find, and often purchase, everything they are looking for at this one-stop shop for online New York City information and services. NYC.com is part of the Expedia Affiliate Network.

WhoSampled.com is a community site for discovering and discussing sampled music, remixes and cover songs.

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Love cover bands? Go to whosampled.com to discover who, what, and where for the latest sampled music and cover songs.

Dunkin Donuts launched their DDSMART campaign to encourage people to jumpstart a healthy lifestyle through running. They filtered Active's directory of events to offer consumers the ability to search for a 5K race in their area.

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What does Donuts have to do with running events? Everything! Dunkin Donuts provided local Active running events to their consumers to help them get and stay healthy.

Rovi Mobile Music is a whole library of musical knowledge on your iPhone.

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Hello, music lovers, this is the app for you. The Rovi Mobile Music app helps you find albums, discover artists and share your favorite artists with all your friends. Also lets you discover similar artists and albums to your current must haves.

Finding your next race shouldn't be the hardest part of your training. With RaceWhere in your pocket, it won't be! Just a few quick taps and you're ready to race.

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Powered by Active.com, we love that RaceWhere has a clean, simple interface that lets you search exactly for the race that you want.

Hoverme is a browser plugin that will enhance your social web experience. With Hoverme installed you will be able to view the social web profile for each of your friends simply by mousing over their profile pictures in your Facebook News Feed.

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Fabulous way to discover where your friends hang out on the social web. Hoverme, powered by the Qwerly API, gives you instant access to the social web profile of each of your friends.

GeoPosty is location-aware content for your WordPress site. That means that when you are using GeoPosty, your users see content that is specific to their location.

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We love that GeoPosty makes it possible for each of your readers to get a personalized experience based on their location and your content.

ESPN Rise supports, informs, inspires and connects high school athletes across the U.S. Through Active Network's API, ESPN Rise offers rankings of high school football teams across five classifications, automatically changing them on a national, state, and local basis every week throughout the season.

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Friends, family, and fans of local teams get a site that puts their team on the national map. ESPN gets unmatched granularity of data, and Active Networks builds viewership and brand.

Meet in the middle! Meetways.com helps you save hours trying to figure out the halfway point on a map with one simple click and provides great local info from CityGrid.

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Good quality research has never been so easy to find. SweetSearch helps students find relevant and credible information, faster.

SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students.
It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.

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Good quality research has never been so easy to find. SweetSearch helps students find relevant and credible information, faster.

Instant Watch Database is a simple 'instant watch' Netflix search engine.

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Instant Watch Database provides an easy, yet powerful way for Netflix customers to scour the Netflix instant watch catalog for quality titles.

Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell twitter books printed from your tweets.

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Now anyone can be a published author. Over time tweets can tell a story or remind us of moments. In 20 years we don't know whether twitter will be around but your Twournal will be.

Etsytext was built specifically for etsy sellers to stay connected to their Etsy store activity. It automatically sends a text message when ever something is sold in your store.

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Instant gratification for Etsy sellers to know what is selling in their stores and what their customers are saying about them.

LiveStrong.com, a collaboration between Demand Media and bicycling legend Lance Armstrong, is a health, fitness, and lifestyle destination. Using Active Network's directory of community events, LiveStrong.com adds local relevance to its business listings.

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The tie-in to local content inspires community by suggesting easy-to-find local businesses like healthy restaurants, takes Active's data into new markets, and helps businesses build their brands.

The Guardian created the Eyewitness app for the iPad that provides a gallery of the world's most distinctive and provocative photographs from the UK's most popular digital newspaper.

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Kudos to The Guardian for quickly and cost effectively building this app that was one of the most popular applications when the iPad launched in April 2010.

Using Suburbified, the househunter, the local, and the just plain curious can read up on ten year's of New York Times' real estate articles about the towns surrounding Gotham.

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To paraphrase its creator, Suburbified is how you tell Bellerose from Bellport, and which bucolic Westchester suburb also has a nuclear reactor. For the Times, hard-won stories are given new life and readership.

FeedFliks is devoted to making a customer's Netflix rental data into valuable information to search, manage and learn about rentals. It comes with graphics that let you know how long you are keeping titles, what you are spending, and how that compares to other users.

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As good as Netflix is, this makes it better by personalizing data around rental habits and improving the ability to manage rental lists.

MovieBuddy, a specialized search service, is the first native iPad app for browsing the Netflix catalog, managing DVD queues, and streaming films in coordination with the Netflix App.

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In a quick turnaround, MovieBuddy was able to bring Netflix to a new platform in an efficient, easy to use platform.

Handmade Spark is a online marketing service to help make the business side of things more effective for those who enjoy it and reduce the effort for those who don't. Handmade Spark provides search engine optimization and social marketing that helps get Etsy sellers more visibility across the web.

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Designing and creating handmade items is one skill, but selling and marketing them is another feat altogether. Handmade Spark does this for Etsy sellers.

Flixster is the leading online destination for movie enthusiasts with over 30M unique visitors per month and 2 billion movie ratings.

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Flixster is a great movie app success story. It has now been downloaded by more than 20 million people, doubling its user base since the start of this year. What's more, the company's iPad app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times so far too.

Craft Cult
APIs: developer.etsy.com/

Craft Cult is a service enabling craftspeople and artisans to reach interested people through high-quality, affordable advertising. By using APIs to Etsy's catalog of handcrafts for sale over the Internet, they enable both awareness and action for Etsy goods, improving the utility of their product.

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Amish quilting, meet modern marketing. The high-tech marketing and sales solutions in this app are preserving and growing the valuable home crafts world.

Town Hall
APIs: developer.nytimes.com/page

Town Hall is a smartphone app. It provides highly relevant information on every member of the U.S. Congress, going back to 1950. The Times' APIs provide a critical information source.

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Knowledge isn't just power, it's cool. Town Hall aims to inform the public about who is looking after their interest, in a fast, good-looking way. The Times data provides context and well-written content where people need it.

Plot or Not
APIs: developer.trulia.com/

Plot or Not provides real Estate, weather, crime, income and demographic comparisons, using data from real estate service Trulia.com and the U.S. census.

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An invaluable tool for both real estate hunters and the curious. Plot or Not's business depends on making Trulia's data matter to more people in new ways, increasing the utility of both services.

ShopSavvy
APIs: remix.bestbuy.com

ShopSavvy makes a mobile device (iPhone, Android or Blackberry) into a portable barcode scanner that does product look up, information and both online and local retail prices. Internationally available.

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ShopSavvy clever technology (it uses the phone's camera) has 5.5 million users in 24 countries, and has signed a number of retailers and advertisers. Besides working on their own success, these guys do a great job recruiting other developers.

Wikitude World Browser
APIs: developer.citygridmedia.com

Wikitude is a mobile application that uses the smartphone's camera to provide its owner with information about a landmark's name, history, or other information. The CityGrid API helps broaden its available data beyond articles to familiar and actionable consumer information.

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This travel app broadened the appeal and user base for both companies. Wikitude gained in graphics, information, and range, while Citysearch got a bigger presence in the fast-growing mobile space.

SoopSee
APIs: developer.etsy.com

SoopSee unites material from online stores, photo galleries, blogs, and on-demand manufacturing sites into a single page on which a craftsperson can market and vend their wares. SoopSee relies on the APIs for the Etsy handicrafts store.

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Soopsee makes is quick and easy for Etsy sellers to build their own websites to create an online 'one stop to shop' for their customers. Not incidentally, the service organizes many activities involved in an online business, cutting the hassle.

LOVEFiLM API
APIs: developer.lovefilm.com

LOVEFiLM's DVD, Blu-Ray and games rental service has 67,000 titles, and through the API features automatic updates to Facebook on what customers want to watch, discs they have rented, ratings, reviews and more.

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Social media is used to make professional content a means for personal connection, thanks to a bridging API.

Instantwatcher.com
APIs:
developer.nytimes.com/page

developer.netflix.com

Instantwatcher enables you to search and choose among the streamed movies of the Netflix catalog. Learn more about movies, before or after, with the New York Times extensive movie reviews.

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Developer Daniel Choi created a tool that improved on an existing list by sharpening it for a specific user. His compensation model – fees from Netflix for signing up new users – gives Netflix insight into an important niche customer.

Xobni plug-in for Outlook
APIs: developer.hoovers.com

Xobni for Outlook is a sidebar on your email for better inbox management, plus contact information like previous conversations, social network data, and shared attachments.

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Xobni used Hoover's API data to add value in the form of company information, so customers can locate and manage professional relationships more efficiently and accurately.

Camelbuy
APIs: remix.bestbuy.com

Price and availability changes on customer-selected products delivered by email, Twitter, and RSS feeds. Also offers price history and trends, and a dashboard of all products selected with product descriptions.

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Customers can set price thresholds, plan their purchasing, and act in real-time. Merchants get faster responses to stocking decisions, and fast information about which price points are working.

Grace Note
APIs: developer.jambase.com

Jambase provides information on concert schedules and tickets across the world, hosts a community of 600,000 avid fans, and works with promoters and brands to get their messages out. The Gracenote API puts artists and fans closer together with richer interactions of catalogued and discoverable music.

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The two companies took two ends of the music business, live and recorded, and turned them into a seamless experience, building fan knowledge and enthusiasm.