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An excellent article on why APIs should be open. This was recently echoed by a blog post from Jonathan Rosenberg of Google on much the same topic.

Openness of standards and APIs will drive a lot of innovation. Twitter is one of the best examples of this. Their open APIs have allow a number of companies to build various clients for the site. Those clients also drive innovation within Twitter itself to provide and adapt to new functionality.

Then there are the apps that analyze the datastream and extract trends and other valuable data that can be sold to other parties again. An entire ecosystem built on being open, and it’s a very disruptive one at that, but also offers resounding opportunity to those with vision and ability to move quickly.

I am trying to build the things that I am working on to incorporate those ideals. It will be a challenge to get there and one that I relish. The end result will be better code and simpler growth patterns.

It will be a fun journey!

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