Business of APIs


API Days - Mediterranea - May, June 2013

Kin Lane

API Evangelist

  • 23 Years Database Engineer
  • Evangelize APIs to Masses
  • Democratizing Power of APIs
  • Independent Voice

History of APIs

History of APIs

Commerce

  • Salesforce
  • eBay
  • Amazon
  • Paypal

History of APIs

Social

  • Flickr (Photos)
  • Delicious (Bookmarks)
  • Twitter (Messaging)
  • Facebook (Friends)

History of APIs

Cloud / Infrastructure / Scalability

  • Amazon S3 (Storage)
  • Amazon EC2 (Compute)
  • Amazon SimpleDB (Data)
  • Amazon RDS (Database)

History of APIs

Mobile

  • Instagram (Photos)
  • Foursquare (Local)
  • Rdio (Music)

History of APIs

Data

  • Guardian (Journalism)
  • Data.Gov (Government)
  • World Bank (World)

Success of APIs

Why Is It Working?

  • Simplicity
  • Self-Service
  • Developer Centric
  • Hackable
  • Distributed
  • Built on HTTP

Tech of APIs

Business of APIs

API Design


API Deployment


API Management



API Monetization


API Evangelism

API Community

API Discovery

API Integration

API Monetization


API Community

Understand and Leverage Trends


BaaS


Aggregation


Reciprocity

Real-Time


Scripting



Voice


Single Page Apps (SPA)


Automobile



Home


Buildings

Quantified Self


3D Printing and Manufacturing

Priorities

Government

Cities

Libraries


Universities

Education

Healthcare

Politics of APIs

Security

Visibility


Transparency

Interoperability

Reciprocity

Terms of Use


Privacy


Copyright


Open Source


3 Legged Conversations

We Can Do It!!


By Kin Lane (@kinlane)