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)