Archive for April, 2009
Best Buy Remix Challenge
Recently, Best Buy Remix has teamed up with Top Coder to bring to you the Remix Challenge. The website, held at http://www.remixchallenge.com/ has all of the details. The first of many challenges is called the Computer Experience beginning Friday April 24th and ends on Friday May 1st. This challenge is an idea phase. The [...]
API Outage/Maintainence
Today, April 15th the Best Buy Remix API will be offline for servicing. The Outage will begin approximately 4:30 Central Time and should last no more than 20 minutes. The changes being made are all back end changes and will not effect the portal. If the outage lasts more than the expected time we [...]
The Virtual Developers Conference on Twitter
On Tuesday April 21st 2009, Best Buy Remix is going to hold it’s first Virtual Developers Conference using Hashtag #DevConf. As many of you may already know Best Buy has opened up it’s API to the public and is letting developers use the data to create cool and useful applications. However, The purpose and scope [...]
Circus Mashimus Winners Announced
This year Best Buy Remix participated as a sponsor for the Circus Mashimus event at SXSW. The event combined educational content about the open API’s of Best Buy, Ribbit, New York Times, and Billboard Magazine. The contest challenge was to create a mashup with at least one of the API’s. There were many developer entries [...]
Featured Developer – Product Ops
Today, I had the chance to do a quick Audio interview with Erik Schmidt of Product Ops. They have recently created an application on the Best Buy Remix API called BB Finder. BB Finder will help you locate a nearest store location along with product information and availability. This is release 1.0 for the BB [...]
