As programmers, we often have to deal with messy, unstructured user input. If you’ve ever worked with name data, you know that names are entered in all kinds of formats, and can be very difficult to work with. How are you supposed to pull all of these formats into one structured collection of data that Continue reading…
Life is a Startup
I just “pivoted.” Four weeks ago, I had never heard of a “pivot” as it is used in startup life. Now, I head up business development at FullContact and I get subjected to the word “pivot” on a daily basis. Suddenly, I am bombarded with quotations from Brad Feld and David Cohen. My colleagues tell Continue reading…
FullContact Twitter Lookup Released
FullContact provides a wealth of contact information about your users, but up until now the only way to query for that information was to pass our Person Lookup API an email address. This is great when you have an email address for every one of your users, but what if you don’t? Today we’re proud to Continue reading…
New FullContact API Docs and API Console Released
At FullContact, we believe that having great API documentation is just as important has having great APIs. What good are powerful APIs if no one understands how to use them? Without well designed docs, even RESTful APIs like ours can be difficult to use. In tandem with the release of the Version 2 FullContact API, we’ve spent that Continue reading…
Don’t get grinfucked by your users
I woke up this morning and I couldn’t stop thinking about how evil “sugar coated” feedback is when trying to build great software – especially from end users. It drives me crazy when I know someone is holding something back. Coincidentally, a few minutes later, I read Brad Feld’s post on grinfucking and Mark Suster’s Continue reading…
New Dev Challenge: FullContact for Salesforce (Part Deux)
We’re relaunching a previous developer challenge: the FullContact Chrome Browser Extension for SalesForce. We received several submissions last time, but unfortunately, they either a) didn’t work or b) didn’t match the specifications. So we’re giving it another shot! You should too! If you submitted last time, we encourage you to resubmit – if you have Continue reading…
FullContact API Version 2 Released
The team at FullContact has been hard at work these past few weeks updating the FullContact APIs, enhancing our API documentation, and adding powerful new API enpdoints to our product offering. We’ve also managed to launch the FullContact iPhone App, our newly redesigned website, and our developer site. FullContact API Version 2 provides new data Continue reading…
What Startups can learn from Tim Tebow
I spent most of last Sunday standing in my living room, watching NFL football, screaming at the television. The past 13 weeks this has been a Sunday ritual. Sundays with me are so intolerable that my girlfriend Sarah now chooses to go shopping for the day, leaving me alone to yell and scream while our Continue reading…
Upcoming Changes To Our V1 Schema
We are in the process of refactoring the FullContact V1 API response schema in an effort to make the data you use more organized and consistent. We’ve standardized field names across social profiles, reorganized information, added new fields, and removed fields we will no longer be providing. If you’re currently using our V1 API endpoint, Continue reading…
Let’s get honest about uptime – FullContact Edition
Today David at 37Signals wrote a nice post about uptime. Forkly then followed suit with their own stats. I love this trend and hope it continues. I liked David’s point about downtime – it doesn’t matter to customers whether the downtime was “scheduled” or “unscheduled” — just that it’s down. Thus, cloud software providers should Continue reading…
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