Open APIs - State of the Market 2011

Open APIs: State of the Market John Musser, ProgrammableWeb @johnmusser Glue Conference 2011

Introduction
ProgrammableWeb.com
API & mashup directory
News, community, dev tools
3,200 Web APIs
5,800 mashups

Growth | Simplicity | Money

Open APIs: Growth is accelerating Total APIs over time

APIs: some very competitive markets Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011 Number of APIs, Top 15 Categories

API Billionaires Club, 2011 edition 5 billion API calls / day (April 2010) 1.6 billion API-delivered stories / month (October 2010) 5 billion API calls / day (October 2009) 8 billion API calls / month (Q3 2009) 3 billion API calls / month (March 2009) 13 billion API calls / day (May 2011) Over 260 billion objects stored in S3 (January 2011) 10 billion API calls / month (January 2011)

Simplicity

REST vs. SOAP: Simplicity wins again Distribution of API protocols and styles Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011

JSON Rising: 55% of all new APIs support JSON Percentage of new APIs with JSON support Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011

20% of all new APIs support only JSON Percentage of new APIs with only JSON support Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011

1 in every 5 new APIs says “ goodbye XML ” Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011 Percentage of APIs with XML support

API as Product When an API is not an extension of your product, but it is your product

Screw the web site, let’s focus on the API Qwerly shutters profile pages in favor of lucrative ‘DNS for people’ API TechCrunch, May 5, 2011

API business models, circa 2005

API business models 2011

Have we seen this before? 1995 Why do we need a Web site? 2000 2005 2010 Of course we have a Web site Of course we have an API Why do we need an API?

thank you Questions, ideas, comments? Email me: john@programmableweb.com Twitter: @johnmusser

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