leweb ignite talk on apis
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Ignite talk at leweb on the 8th of November 2010TRANSCRIPT
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!
www.slideshare.net -> stevenwillmott@njyx
Thank You!!
(full credits + creative commons version coming)