Hi everyone!

Today we have released two new features for the Junar API which I would like to talk about.

First of all we have added a new output format of type XML for API´s invoke method. You can now enable the XML output for your calls just by adding the argument output=xml. This will return a standard XML document structure which then you can manipulate.

The other new cool feature we have added to our API is the ability to page through our Data stream invocation calls. This will enable you to properly manipulate and display big data sets with faster response times than requesting the whole dataset in one call.

We have added to following to parameters to our invoke method:

• page: Is of type Integer and represents the page number your requesting starting by 0.  
• limit: Is of type Integer and represents the amount of rows or records to be retrieved per page.

If your invocation call does not provide given parameters the whole dataset will be returned, if one of the above parameters is not provided the request response will be a 400 error.

Hope these new features come in handy in your applications and for any help or support on the new features please contact Junar support.

What: Junar English Webinar for Developing the Caribbean

When: 5pm Jamaica // 6 pm Trinidad & Tobago 

We are very close to the Developing the Caribbean competition and we want to give all participants a chance to learn more about Junar and how to unleash the potential of open data into their apps. We wil cover the web platform as well as our API so developers and non developers can take full advantage of the platform during the event

To register please go to the following link (https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/853581025) and enter your information. You'll be provided then an e-mail with the link to access the webinar at the time above.

Hurry up! Space is limited

The Open Data movement is everywhere. Organizations in the Caribbean are striving to educate and impulse the awareness on Open Data by organizing the Caribbean Open Data Conference. During the conference  (Jan 26 and 27) there will be a competition called Developing the Caribbean where participants will create for two straight days applications that take use of the Open Data.

And who better than Junar to boost their applications with Open Data? Yes! We will be sponsoring the competition by providing data issued by the three countries governmental and non profit organizations that's open and free for anyone to use. The data will be available both through our website and our API so anyone can play with. Of course the whole platform will be available as well to extract or upload interesting data to use.

We are also very happy to announce we will have on site support for the Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago (in Trinidad) as well as online support during the event.

Thanks to all collaborators and organizers for making us part of the event. We are really looking forward to the event and bring all the power of open data to the Caribbean.

With our release some months ago of our API we hoped that we could be able to power up platforms, web services and even applications so they all could benefit from the open data on the web. For this task we developed several methods and technology that would allow others developers to connect into Junar's engine (more info here).

Our first partner to start taking advantage of our API was Startbull, a colombian startup aiming to bring investment education and knowledge where people could learn how to invest with others (crowd sourced) in Latin America.

As a startup, Startbull couldn't afford paying Bloomberg or other similar platforms for the data of Stock Markets, data that was available on the web but difficult to extract and use. Instead they turn to Junar to help them with the quest: Using our collection tool we where able to give them data streams they needed and use them through our API to get all market information for Chile, Colombia and Perú. This data is being pulled directly from the Stock Market websites and real-time (not with the 20min delay bloomberg has on LATAM stock market) into their own platform.

"  Junar has been crucial for us, not only because of the data they deliver, but also because of the excellent data management tool they have developed on their API.  " Santiago Pineda-Startbull

Today Startbull keeps growing it's platform, just completed the StartupChile program and just went finalist on Innova Brasil 2011.

Tomorrow, hundreds of hackers will battle for 30 straight hours in the Desarrollando America contest (hackathon) where developers compete to create unique and innovative applications around topics like education and security, using open data.

Junar will support the 'biggest hacker event in the region' with relevant and interesting data so they can power up their ideas. Also we will be through the entire event providing tips and support so they can unleash all our API's power. We have set a special place to review a sample of the data gathered for the event on the following site: http://www.junar.com/desarrollandoamerica

For those who want more information on the event you can visit:  http://www.junar.com/desarrollandoamerica (spanish)

We have open up channels for support such a Yahoo Group  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/junar-developers and of course our e-mail support@junar.com .

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Hello! Bonjour! Hola! Shalom!

We just finished Global Entrepreneur Week (#GEW on Twitter). No matter where you were last week, there were events focused on entrepreneurs! We think this is awesome (Junar is, after all, a start-up and we’re entrepreneurs ourselves).

To continue the spirit of last week's celebrations, we’d like to share with you some data on global  entrepreneurship, including this data stream about the events that took place last  week.   

We also want to mention that most of the  data we are sharing in this post comes from the research done by our friends at Global Entrepreneur Monitor (aka our “GEM” friends).

So, without further ado: some data on all of the entrepreneurs in the world.

Meanwhile, this is a good round-up of some world entrepreneurship indicators for 2010.

We also have some country specific entrepreunership indicators. Check out the business start-up scene in Israel, Latin America, and France, for example.

Last week, the daily deal website giant, Groupon, went public. It was largest public offering of an internet site's stock since Google went public in 2004.

While every one likes discounts and deals, the questions still arise as to how the stock (and the company) are doing. This week, we're here to share with you some data about Groupon (GRPN), the site with an amazing mail list that consists of over 83 million subscribers and a supposed $64 billion in revenue.

Here's some data that shows just how much the site grew from 2009 (with only 152,000 subscribers) to 2011,

Groupon also acquired a number of other sites along the way, take a look.

But then again, they also acquired over $1 billion in funding, as seen here.

For even more info, see our Groupon Dashboard.

So, how's GRPN stock doing?

Here's where it's trading today.

And here is how it compares to the overall market.

By Lizzie Cranberry

On November 1^st, the world’s population officially reached the 7 billion mark. This week, we take a look at the data behind that figure. Who are the 7 billion? Where do most of them live? Which countries are growing the fastest, which are declining? And which of them are the happiest? Have more info you want to share? Please let us know and we’ll create some more data streams.

Click here if you want to know which are the most populated  (aka most crowded) countries.

And a chart to follow, showing which of the most crowded countries are growing the fastest:

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Meanwhile, you can check the top 10 countries with the fastest population growth.

How about the country with the most smiling faces? Check out the happiest countries.

And the grand finale: our population data round-up in the form of a Dashboard.

That’s today’s Data Dosage. Thanks for being our Data Amigo. It’s a big world out there and we love having you as our friend. J

If embedding live data in your blogs or websites wasn't cool enough, we have added yet another functionality: embedding charts. And of course if you create a chart from a data stream that's constantly updating that means live charts!

You can create charts from data streams on your dashboard, and the just click Actions>Embed to retrieve the code to paste on your blog or website, it's that easy!

Below an example of a nice chart showing the vartiations of metal commodities, the chart is fed from this data stream and now the chart changes as the values on the market move.

Go ahead, create your own live charts and embed them everywhere!

Do you spend countless hours collecting data from the web?

Analysts spend over 70% of their time collecting data for their every day work and only 30% in analysis.

Maximize your productivity with Junar and let us do the hard part.

What's Junar?

Junar is a platform that allows users to extract data from the web and manage it from one single site. It's designed to be very easy to collect data from webpages, just add your URL in the collect page and start creating your own data streams (conections between Junar and a website or file on the web). 

Stop wasting time copy/pasting values, downloading files or going back everytime you need to update: Junar keeps your data updated automatically and in real-time.

Integrate data in Junar to your everyday tools like Google Spreadsheets or MS Excel. Let us update your documents for you, no more copy pasting, no more errors, no more time consuming in updating your data.

Create your own dashboards for easy access, add 'live' graphs and embed them to your websites. Certainly your blog/website visitors will bennefit from fresh data and graphs.

Change the way you collect, track and use data forever.