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Liberating the API
Economy with
Scale-Free Networks
Mike Amundsen
CA Technologies
@mamund
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I come as a messenger…
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… and the news is not so good…
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Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself…
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East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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East Lansing, Michigan, USA
1973
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Stanford, California, USA
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Stanford, California, USA
1994
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“Jerry’s Guide to the
World Wide Web”
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Stanford, California, USA
1998
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"...due to rapid advance in technology and web
proliferation, creating a web search engine
today is very different from three years ago."
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"...due to rapid advance in technology and web
proliferation, creating a web search engine
today is very different from three years ago."
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“Free” as in “Scale-Free”
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“A scale-free network is a network whose
degree distribution follows a power law."
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“A scale-free network is a network whose
degree distribution follows a power law."
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Have we forgotten so soon?
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Hub Vulnerability
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Hub Vulnerability
“Too big to fail.”
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Does the power law
only apply to search?
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What if we changed our model?
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Yes, but can you make money
with this model?
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Let’s re-imagine common hubs…
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Advice for API providers…
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Beware of the hub vulnerability problem
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Explore node-based models
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Empower users and reap the rewards
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Advice for API consumers…
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Is a node-based provider available?
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Build client-based aggregators
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Empower users and reap the rewards
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Wait, I had a message, right?
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Be a node and not a hub!
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Liberating the API
Economy with
Scale-Free Networks
Mike Amundsen
CA Technologies
@mamund
http://g.mamund.com/apidays-sydney-2015