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• September 18th, 2012 Announcements The Next App Gallery Update By Amir Shaikh

  We're making some changes to how we manage our App Gallery and wanted to take some time to explain them to you, our developer community.

  The App Gallery is where we highlight interesting and useful SoundCloud powered apps and services for our users. As our developer community continues to grow, it's even more important that we keep a high bar for apps found in App Gallery. Having a high standard protects the value of being featured in App Gallery for all of our developers while giving our users a sense of confidence in the caliber of content we're showcasing there.

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• August 30th, 2012 Events Ideas How to Make a SoundCloud Powered Children's Toy By paulosman

  Just over a week ago we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud. You can read (and listen!) about it on our community blog or read some of the awesome press coverage the event received.

  

  We had over 60 people attend and over 20 projects were demoed. I joined a team organized by Josh Devins to build ToyBox, a children's toy that plays sounds from SoundCloud in response to physical events. The team consisted of myself, Horaci Cuevas, Josh Devins, and Oliver Hookins.

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• August 13th, 2012 Community Introducing the CloudSeeder Devkit By David Shu

  Today we're featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They've built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms and has worked on a number of iOS apps, including Tabletop and Dokobots. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA.

  We recently built a SoundCloud-powered community into our app Tabletop, a modular audio environment for the iPad, using the CocoaSoundCloudAPI. The project, CloudSeeder, lets users browse, stream, favorite, and comment on Tabletop tracks without ever leaving the app.

  As developers, we discovered tons of talented users in our Tabletop community. At the same time, our users found inspiration from each other and a new showcase for their creations. To share in the excitement of community creation with all developers, today we're releasing the CloudSeeder Devkit as open source on Google Code.

  

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• July 12th, 2012 Ideas Events Recording and Sharing Phone Calls By Paul Osman

  A few weeks ago, I attended News Hack Day in San Francisco. News Hack Days are events that bring together journalists, developers and designers for multi day creative coding and brainstorming sessions.

  I really like the idea of hack days that bring together people from different backgrounds. After chatting with a few journalists, it became obvious to me that recording interviews on the phone is a real pain. I saw this as an opportunity to build a fun app that would make this easier for people.

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• July 6th, 2012 Wrappers Community SocialFolders Releases SoundCloud Ruby Gem By Paul Osman

  There are many approaches to building libraries that wrap HTTP APIs. For many of our officially supported SDKs we chose to build light wrappers around HTTP client libraries with a few added features to make it easier to work with the SoundCloud API. This approach has a few benefits. It guarantees a certain consistency and is relatively easy to maintain. It's also fairly future proof. Changes in the HTTP API do not typically require updates to client libraries.

  Sometimes however, you might be looking for something a bit more feature-full, or with more abstraction from our HTTP API. That's why I was really happy to see that the great folks at SocialFolders built an alternative SoundCloud Ruby gem and released it to the public. You can check out their blog post about it or go straight to the source on GitHub.

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