Leweb Ignite Talk on APIs

Speak Beautiful XML to me - 10 ways to change the world with APIs
Ignite Talk @ LeWeb 2010
Steven Willmott
3scale networks

APIs = GLUE

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
…
</MyMethod>
<(#*@&@#*>
ERROR::403::Authentication Failure
Pretty Hard to Love!!

So what are these things?
Raw programming access data and applications!
Lots of Business Benefits..

But this talk isn’t about that…
10 ways to change the world with APIs…

#1
Help the World be More Generous!

Power Tomorrow’s Science
#2
1730 services
for Scientists

#3
Mashup Scientific Publications
Authors
Citations
High Quality Data

(#3)
Google Scholar API
Campaign…
No API
(yet? :))

Great Content Everywhere
#4
Remix, Re-use, Re-publish
(… & Monetize!)

Energy Data at People’s Fingertips
#5

#6
AppstoPatchthePlanet
Realtime Data
Environmental Apps
Complete
Control

(#6)
No Excuses…
Data is Available
Apps can be built!

#7
Government Data Opens Up

#8
CreateNewResources
= API
+
http://www.undata-api.org/

#9
Remix Human Knowledge!
http://linkeddata.org/

(#9)
Open Data Empowers
Wikipedia is Web 2.0
“Wiki-API” is Web 3.0?

#10
Maintain Biodiversity
Data.gbif.org – 250 Million Species Entries

Get Data into the Right Hands
Bring it to Users Wherever they are!

APIs are hard to love…
But can do Beautiful things!

Thank You!!
steve@3scale.netwww.3scale.netwww.slideshare.net -> stevenwillmott@njyx
(full credits + creative commons version coming)

by 3SCALE on Dec 08, 2010