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Open APIs: State of the Market
John Musser, ProgrammableWeb@johnmusser
Glue Conference 2011
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Introduction
ProgrammableWeb.com• API & mashup directory• News, community, dev tools• 3,200 Web APIs • 5,800 mashups
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Growth | Simplicity | Money
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Open APIs: Growth is accelerating
Total APIs over time
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Open APIs: Growth is accelerating
Total APIs over time
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Open APIs: Growth is accelerating
Total APIs over time
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Open APIs: Growth is accelerating
Total APIs over time
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APIs: some very competitive markets
Number of APIs, Top 15 Categories
Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011
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API Billionaires Club, 2011 edition
5 billion API calls / day (April 2010)
1.6 billion API-delivered stories / month (October 2010)
5 billion API calls / day (October 2009)
8 billion API calls / month (Q3 2009)
3 billion API calls / month (March 2009)
13 billion API calls / day (May 2011)
Over 260 billion objects stored in S3 (January 2011)
10 billion API calls / month (January 2011)
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Simplicity
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REST vs. SOAP: Simplicity wins again
Distribution of API protocols and stylesBased on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011
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REST vs. SOAP: Simplicity wins again
Distribution of API protocols and stylesBased on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011
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JSON Rising: 55% of all new APIs support JSON
Percentage of new APIs with JSON supportBased on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011
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20% of all new APIs support only JSON
Percentage of new APIs with only JSON supportBased on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011
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1 in every 5 new APIs says “goodbye XML”
Based on directory of 3,200 web APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, May 2011
Percentage of APIs with XML support
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Money
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API as Product
When an API is not an extension of your product, but it is your product
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Screw the web site, let’s focus on the API
Qwerly shutters profile pages in favor of lucrative ‘DNS for people’ API
TechCrunch, May 5, 2011
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API business models, circa 2005
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API business models 2011
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Have we seen this before?
1995
Why do we need a Web site?
2000 2005 2010
Of course we have a Web site
Of course we have an API
Why do we need an API?