Mashups, Web Data, and APIs

John Musser, May 25th, 2006
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Phil Windley has a very good writeup of the session on Mashups, Web Data, and APIs from the WWW2006 event. Panelists included Dan Theurer from Yahoo! on their APIs, Kevin Lawver from AOL, Frank Mantek from Google on GData, and Jeff Barr from Amazon.

Interesting points from Jeff Barr on API provider best practices:

First, have a program: Plan your API, don’t just throw it out there.
Get the business model right: Have a strategy, plan for licensing and pricing.
Get the technology side right: Support multiple formats like XML, JSON, and REST. Remember versioning (something that a large percentage of APIs here do not)
Support developers: Including samples and documentation
Create community: From forums to blogs and outreach

He’s also got a bit more on the conference here on his ZDNet blog.

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2 Responses to “Mashups, Web Data, and APIs”

May 25th, 2006 at 8:08 am

Comment by: John Musser

FYI, this was orginally listed as from XTech and thanks to Kevin Lawver for the update.

January 4th, 2007 at 1:22 am

Comment by: ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » How eBay Scales Their DevNet

[...] The success factors for a developer network including forums, tools, documentation, support, a sandbox test environment, knowledge base, certification program, developer’s conference, published product roadmap, and multi-language samples and SDK tools. (See also notes from Amazon’s Jeff Barr on their devnet.) [...]