As I walked around the TechCrunch Disrupt_Hackathon today, I talked to a lot of vendors who decided to set up tables at the event_for one reason: to lure developers to use their APIs and build applications on top of their platforms. In fact, I spoke to almost a dozen vendors including Evernote, Twitter, Microsoft Azure, The Weather Underground, Pearson (the book publisher), GoGo InFlight… Read More