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By Stacey Higginbotham

US – March 16, 2010 – In a world of web-based services that depend on various other services, like Twitter or Google Maps data, your product will only be as strong as your weakest API call. I've found it's actually a fun topic to discuss. For developers and web-based businesses, thinking about and managing federated flows of information has a big impact on the end-user experience.

I moderated the Can You Run a Serverless Business panel a few hours ago, and two of the panelists brought that up as an issue, with Jim Louderback of Revision3 (an occasional columnist for GigaOM) saying that at one point he ended up slowing down that company's video delivery because it had relied on too many services located in the cloud, a sentiment echoed by Ethan Kaplan of Warner Music.

For the full article see GIGAom: SXSW: The Future Application Ecosystem

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US – March 1, 2010 – You've probably heard that Twitter's API has been the primary driver for the fast growth and rapid morphing of Twitter's service. You may know that eBay and Salesforce.com get over 60% of their usage via APIs. And in the last couple of months, you may have heard people at your company in marketing, business development, or software engineering talking about your own API. If not, you will soon.

For the full article see IT Knowledge Exchange:  A-Commerce: 10 Ways APIs will change IT Operations

By Savio Rodrigues

US – February 26, 2010 – Open APIs are increasingly being exposed, especially for mobile and cloud apps, but they require appropriate monitoring and management. When you think "open source," you probaby think applications. But maybe you should also be thinking about APIs. In a recent conversation with Sonoa Systems' Sam Ramji -- who in a previous life was a central figure in Microsoft's open source strategy team -- Ramji described a shift in his work from "open source to open cloud." It's a shift that may -- and should -- be coming soon to your work as well.

For the full article see Infoworld: How to use open APIs for business growth