APIs: The Power Transforming the Web(blogs.wsj.com)

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http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/10/04/apis-the-power-transforming-the-web/

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"A travel app could bring together both his restaurant API as well as the mapping data. 'What we see is a ‘compounding’ of data across several services. An open API strategy lets others build upon the data they’ve created.' That is a huge economic multiplier."

The author is dead on here; the multipler effect that comes from consuming many APIs. Great APIs are like Pringles, you can't consume just one.