3scale partners with Zauber

We are happy to announce our partnership with 3scale to provide plug‐and‐play
 API
 management
 solutions and API development.

3scale enables
 Internet‐based
 businesses
 with
 a
 secure,
 scalable
 and
 efficient
 SaaS
 platform
 to
 manage
 their
 APIs
 and
 reduce
 time‐to‐market.
 3scale’s
 on‐demand
 infrastructure
 platform
 lets
 customers
 capitalize
 on
 their
 Web
 Services
 to
 increase
 revenues
 and
 exploit
 the
 full
 potential
 of
 the
 API
 technology.

At Zauber we understand the need for providing our clients with managed APIs for every Web project, thus this partnership will allow us to accelerate and empower the API strategy of Internet companies, as it targets a stronger ability for Web Service providers to increase their market reach through APIs.

You can download the complete Press Release here.

Barcamp Buenos Aires - Open Data & Mashups 3.0

Last saturday we attended Barcamp Buenos Aires, the third edition in Buenos Aires of the unconference that gathers Web developers, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone related to the Internet and Technology industry. Juan F. Codagnone, co-founder at Zauber, had the chance to present a talk about LinkedData and Mashups 3.0, where he talked about the needs to openly expose information in raw formats and facilitate the exchange of information, linking them in RDF databases. His presentation highlighted projects like Freebase.com, DBPedia.org, New York Times Open Data, among others. Check out his slides here:

Barcamp Buenos Aires - LinkedData & Mashups 3.0

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Our first native iPhone Application - iFlof

Directly from our Zauber Labs, the space where every member of our staff can devote its 10% time to work on a personal Research & Development project, we are pleased to announce that iFlof, our first native iPhone SDK Application, has been approved and published in App Store.

iFlof is still Beta and we are planning to add more funtionality in the near future. This first version is a front-end for Flof that enables users to:

• Search places nearby using your GPS (search for places stored in Flof.com.ar such us ATMs, gas stations, banks, bars and restaurants and a lot more)
• View details of each place (tags, reviews, address, website)
• Send details of each place by email to a friend that feels lost
• Find every place on your Maps Application

Check out some screenshots of this first version of the Application. For enhanced functionality, register at http://flof.com.ar and add your own places of interest.

Real-time Data Streaming for Argentinian Elections Coverage

Yesterday we had congressional elections at Argentina and online media prepared to cover it in different ways on the Web. Argentinian Twitter users agreed to use the hashtag #urna2009 in their messages, creating this way a better way to track elections-related messages.

At Zauber we decided to develop an experiment to follow the elections in real-time, digging into some technologies we have been researching lately. We developed a simple web page that integrated Facebook Connect, Twitter Streaming API together with our technology of Events and Messages Bus, XMMP messages routing and HTTP persistent connections. The result was a product capable of showing in real-time the stream of tweets (those referrering to certain keywords and hashtags) together with updates from external RSS sources with elections-related news and real-time trends of mentions to our candidates and some other keywords.

You can see some screenshots here:

See it running on iPhone also:

We are really pleased about how the community engaged with our technology and the wonderful comments of support we received.

Now we have shut down access to the Zauber Stream for a couple of days, while we keep on working on improving performance and scalability and thinking of new features to add, planning to provide real-time data streaming on new occasions. Stay tuned !

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Certification

After months of hard work, at Zauber we are pleased to announce that we have obtained our ISO 9001:2008 Quality Certification, recognized by Bureau Veritas. We are really excited about this achievement, given the fact that we were able to combine our agile processes based on Scrum together with the requirements of an international quality policy like ISO. Congratulations to all our team and keep it up !

Recent projects for our clients

These last months we have been working in various development projects for our client Clarin Global, the Internet company of Grupo Clarin, one of the most important news and media companies in LatAm.

We are happy to announce that two of these projects are already available online:

• VendedorPro 2.0: this is a completely new version of the tool VendedorPro for MasOportunidades.com. This tool allows big sellers to manage big amounts (plus 10K items) of products by means of a Desktop Application that connects securely with MasOportunidades services. This tool was developed using Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) on Java 5 together with open source technologies such us: Spring Dynamic Modules, Hibernate and CXF.

• Guía Clarin 2.0: another completely new version of the Internet website Guía Clarin the most complete online guide of Argentinian shops, available in a vast range of categories. This project was developed using Java 5 technology and a stack of open-source technologies such us: Spring MVC, Apache Wicket and Hibernate.

In both cases, we developed from scratch new versions of these products using cutting-edge technologies to support them. We are really happy about these two projects and hope to keep on announcing new releases in the future.

Entreprenerds

Zauber has been featured on the March '09 edition of the business and technology magazine Information Technology . Our company case has been published under a section with a very funny name: Entreprenerds. Fact is, we really love that name: we consider ourselves both Entrepreneurs and Nerds, so the neologism is quite accurate for us.

Photo: Gabriel Baños and Juan Codagnone (Martin Márquez and Mariano Cortesi couldn't make to the photo session due to traffic jam, Andrés Moratti was on holidays and Fernando Zunino was felling sick)

We are really happy about this mention and just wanted to share the good news with all of you. We are proud of the team we have built since we started up and thankful to all the clients and friends who have supported us.