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How Open
is Your API Future?
Adam DuVander – @adamd
Developer Communications Director,
APIs Provide a Blank Canvas
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33 Dead Google APIs
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Should
I have
an
API?
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Should I
open
my
API?
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Dec 2010
Jan 2011
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What is open?
Free Anyone
Not Closed
Antti T. Nissinen
Signs of Open APIs
Acknowledged
Documented
Supported
Three Cs: bit.ly/the3Cs
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“We find that if our customers use
any single integration, they are
three times as likely to convert to
paid.”
Connected Things
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Thank You.
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How Open is Your API Future?

Editor's Notes

  • #18: Acquisition
  • #19: Strategy
  • #20: Business decision
  • #29: Opened 2002, no new signups 2006, closed 2009