Leweb Ignite Talk on APIs

Speak Beautiful XML

to me - 10 ways to

change the world with

APIs

Ignite Talk @ LeWeb 2010Steven Willmott3scale networks

APIs = GLUE

Pretty Hard to Love!!

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> … </MyMethod>

<(#*@&@#*>

ERROR::403::Authentication Failure

Raw programming access data and applications!

So what are these things?

Lots of Business Benefits..

But this talk isn’t about that…

10 ways to change the world with APIs…

Help the World be More Generous!

#1

#2

Power Tomorrow’s Science

1730 servicesfor Scientists

#3

AuthorsCitations

High Quality Data

Mashup Scientific

Publications

(#3)Google Scholar API Campaign…

No API (yet? :))

#4

Remix, Re-use, Re-publish(… & Monetize!)

Great Content Everywhere

Energy Data at People’s Fingertips

#5

#6 Apps to Patch the Planet

Realtime DataEnvironmental

AppsComplete

Control

(#6)

Data is Available

Apps can be built!

No Excuses…

#7 Government Data Opens Up

#8

+ = API

Create New Resources

http://www.undata-api.org/

#9Remix Human Knowledge!

http://linkeddata.org/

(#9)

Wikipedia is Web 2.0

“Wiki-API” is Web 3.0?

Open Data Empowers

#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!

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Thank You!!

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