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Scale the API Economy: The Open API Definition
Leap of Faith
Mehdi MedjaouiCo-founder@medjawii
#openAPIdefinition
{“apis”: “the joy”}
Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_API
You said “open”?
Between what I think, What I want to say, What I believe to say,What I actually say,What you want to hear,What you actually hear,What you believe you understand,What you want to understand,What you actually understand,It make 9 ways to not understand each other
B.Werber
Scale the API economy?What is the future?
Theory of the firm applied to APIs
the level of capital to innovate for new actors
the ROI of assets for old actors
Economy of Functionality
at worldwideweb speed and scale !
BtoB sharing economy
In the API economy, an API is more than an
Application Programming Interface
It’s a contract between a provider and consumer
Leap of faith for a better society :“Leave your natural freedom for a civilian freedom”
To Scale the API landscape, we need to make a leap of faith.Today.
Leap of faith
3 actual leaps of faith that scaled
the industry
Since 1883
1,000,000 patents in total, 2004
Released to ISO in the 60’
95% of the shipping industry is containerized
CERN
April 30, 1993
The Indexed Web contains at least 2.06
billion pages (Wednesday, 26 March, 2014).
from http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
W. Churchill
March 27th, 2014The Open API definition
Leap of Faith
“The first draft of everything is shit” E.Hemingway
“First drafts don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be written”
1) New resources to the network
2) Transparency
3) Accessibility
4) Interoperability
5) Attribution, re-use and derived works
6) Neutrality
7) ToS, Policy & changes
8) Reliability
9) Commons
The Graal?
Transform your users into practitionners.
If we don’t try, who will?
https://github.com/openapimanifesto/firstDraft
Discuss about it today on apiscene.com