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Building Great APIs (part II): Simplicity, Flexibility and TTFHW

Last week’s Building Great APIs post covered two of John Musser and Adam Duvander’s 5 Key Elements of great APIs: providing value and having a business model. In this post …

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The Case Against API Copyright and the Need for an Interface Commons

On Friday, the EFF issued a request for input on arguing making the case that API Interfaces should not be subject to copyright, following Judge Alsup’s landmark ruling against Oracle. …

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Building Great APIs: The Gold Standard (I)

Back in July, John Musser wrote a excellent post over at programmableweb on what it takes to build great APIs (also check out his OSCON slides on Slideshare). John boils …

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API Strategy and Practice – Postponed but back soon

As you likely gathered from our Twitter feed and emails unfortunately this week Mother Nature in the form of Hurricane Sandy reminded us all that the best laid plans sometimes …

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API Strategy and Practice – A Fantastic Line Up

We’ve been working hard on the API Strategy and Practice Conference since it was announced in August and the response has been overwhelming – fantastic speakers, sponsors and delegates! We’ve …

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Craigslist, 3taps, Mashery and API Infrastructure

If you’ve followed the legal dispute between Craigslist and first Padmapper, then 3taps over re-use of their data. you may know that things have taken an even deeper twist. Craigslist …

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API Strategy and Practice – the Best of the Best in One Place

API adoption is exploding and with it the need to get a good handle on how to execute API programs at both a technical and strategic level: which standards to …

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Mosami: providing sophisticated, complex video processing via a simple, transparent API

APIs are really about dramatically scaling the number of other people who can make use of your core idea.” Francis Zane (fzane@mosami.com) is a co-founder of Mosami, who has in …

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On APIs and RSS

Twitter once again made news this week with its 1.1 API terms and in particular the decision to drop support for RSS and ATOM. As with previous policy announcements (see …

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Why API Infrastructure should start at Free

APIs are increasingly becoming core to many Internet Businesses – from mobile to Desktop/Web. From day one at 3scale we’ve always believed that our API Infrastructure should be available for …

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