I've seen third party software/companies that verify a user's ID, the one I saw you simply held your drivers license, passport etc... up to the web cam and it would verify your ID. I don't want to process this info on my end. Does anyone know a company like this?
There are quite a few companies who provide verification services. Most of them are country specific so if you need to check data across the globe then you most likely need to use several services. Take a look at
http://www.experian.com/ or http://www.veda.co.nz/home/identity-plus-product-information.dot
Be prepared these services are not free.
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My team and I are undertaking a course on Ar/Vr, and we are trying to access profile information from Linkedin. I need access to full profile information (r_fullprofile), as the (r_basicprofile) is not sufficient for the project.
I understand that access to these API's are only through Partner Programs, but since I am a student, I cannot find the valid program that I should apply to.
How to proceed with the above situation, or any kind of access that I can request for the project?
i would consider using r_basic anyway. requesting such a partnership will take up to more then a month of waiting.
also you should look at the possiblities of the linkedin people V1 api.
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(firstName,lastName,headline,positions:(company,title,summary,startDate,endDate,isCurrent),industry,location:(name,country:(code)),pictureUrl,publicProfileUrl,emailAddress)?format=json
this are some things you can get from the basic, i probably missed alot because i do not need them. do you need something specifc ?
I have sent couple of emails to support team for become a sabre customer, I have submitted the application to get the access at following link.
https://www.sabretravelnetwork.com/home/solutions/travel_agency/contract_selector/without_arc2
Pls let us know if I am missing anything?
Thanks
Access to the PNR (Passenger Name Records) requires a contract with Sabre. They only give this access to travel agents or companies writing services for travel. There is also associated fees. Also you need to be aware there are costs for every PNR you create. So its not as easy as just getting access to the PNR.
I know this is not the answer you want but its how it works.
If your just trying to build out a small booking engine I would suggest getting into Expedia's API toolkit. Much easier and allot less expensive to get into.
After some time being working with Restful APIs I would like to know a bit more about their internal functionality.
I would like a simple explanation about how the API`s get access to the data that they provide as responses to our requests.
There are APIs, for example weather API`s or sports APIs that are capable to provide responses with very recent data (such as sports results), I am wondering where or how they get that updated info almost as soon as it is available.
I have seen here on SO questions with answers pointing to API design tutorials, but not to this particular topic.
An API is usually simply a facade (or an interface if you prefer) to some information resource. The idea behind it is to "hide" any complexity from the user, to unify several services to a single access point or even to keep the details about the implementation of the actual service a secret.
This being said you probably understand now that there can't be one definitive answer to the question "where do APIs get their info from?". But some common answers are:
other APIs
some proprietary/in-house developed service/database
etc.
For sports APIs - probably they are being provided by some sports media, which has the results as soon as they get out, so they just enter them in their DB and immediately they become available through their API.
For weather forecasts - again as with the sports API they are probably provided by a company dealing with weather forecasts.
If it's easier for you you can think of the "read-only" APIs as rss feeds in a way.
I hope this clears the things a bit for you.
You could have a look at Stack Share to see what companies use for databases and whatnot. But there isn't a universal answer, every company uses whatever works for them.
This usually means that te company has its own database in which the data is stored. But they might also get their data from another company.
But a 'database' is not just SQL, maybe they use unstructured data or any of the other options to store data.
That's where the "whatever works" comes from. The company chooses a solution they go with which best fits their needs.
I'm looking for a Voice Authentication API, and I find Microsoft's one.
When looking at prices, it asks you for a region. The problem is that
it only shows a region
I've been reading about Azure's regions, and it say that is where data is stored, so my question is if it would be possible to use it in a different region than allowed.
Thanks (and sorry for my spelling mistakes).
Quick Answer:
Normally yes, but currently the Speaker Recognition API is only offered out of the WestUS datacenter.
If it's mandatory that you have low-latency when using the service, I suggest you look into setting up and/or temporarily subscribing to a CDN service. Or, if you have a lot of time on your hands, and know waaaaay more than I do about this subject, you may be able to design a local cache to mitigate latency if you're distant from WestUS.
Less-Quick Answer:
First off, you should use the dashboard interface at https://portal.azure.com to sign up. You will first need to create a Pay-As-You-Go subscription as your payment-medium, but it will give you much more control over & visibility into your service.
Here's what the signup pane looks like inside of https://portal.azure.com:
It appears that, in it's current "PREVIEW" deployment, you are right the services is only offered from the the WestUS data center. Normally you will have the option to one of ten's of global datacenters, but it is common that PREVIEW services aren't deployed globally until they're out of PREVIEW status.
If the problem you are looking to remediate is latency-based, look into the CDN suggestion in my "Quick Answer."
If your issue is about getting different pricing based on your location, the location of the datacenter you choose will not affect this. If geographic-discounting applies to you, it is based on the country that is assigned to your Microsoft Username/Password combination at the time it was created. This value cannot be changed once a username/password combo has been created, and consequently, any payment info used along with this uname/pass will need to have a billing address in the same country.
We have a Microsoft web stack web site, we have a members database.
We want to start doing mass-emails to our (opted in) membership.
I don't particularly want to re-invent the wheel with a system for having a web form submit and then mass send emails looping through thousands of records without timing out and overloading the server...
I guess I'm looking for something like Mailman, that can run on a windows (ASP/ASP.NET + SQL Server) backend and do the work for me, with suitable APIs to manage the subscriber list and send emails to that list.
Suggestions please?
I agree with acrosman, third parties that host email lists are a good way to go. A very reliable site I've found for mass emailing is http://mailing-list-services.com/. They do a good job to make sure their servers are never black listed or marked as spam. I've used them a few times, their website design blows, but their service is awsome. The Lyris Listmanager software they use has a pretty extensive API.
Advanced Intellect has some great tools, like aspNetEmail and ListNanny.
MaxBulkMailer might be a solution for you? The organisation I work for uses it to connect to www.authsmtp.com which gives us credits for a certain number of e-mails that we can send per month. You can import a spreadsheet of your mailing list or tap straight into a SQL server and pull the names and addresses. Available for Mac and Windows.
(not a sales pitch)
my company offers mail manager, but it's a hosted service. It has a full API though.
You can also check out how DotNetNuke does this
Unless your running a business that specializes in email, I'd suggest you find a hosted solution. There are 100's of little issues that come up when you run your own service over time. A hosted solution can save you lots of time and effort (and therefore money).