Comments on: The Age of Innocence Is Over. Let The Age of Petty, Spiteful Tyrants Begin! http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Chris Baskind http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-30337 Chris Baskind Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:43:06 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/#comment-30337 I've long said that the big boys of Web 2.0 have been getting a free ride with "user generated" content (read: unpaid employees) and now with product development, thanks to public APIs. As you say, use a public API at your own risk. Discover a new market, and you'll be crushed. I swore-off Yahoo after they began helping China lock up political dissidents. Maybe it's time we returned to self-hosted solutions, and let the big players pay for their own content and R&D. I’ve long said that the big boys of Web 2.0 have been getting a free ride with “user generated” content (read: unpaid employees) and now with product development, thanks to public APIs.

As you say, use a public API at your own risk. Discover a new market, and you’ll be crushed.

I swore-off Yahoo after they began helping China lock up political dissidents. Maybe it’s time we returned to self-hosted solutions, and let the big players pay for their own content and R&D.

]]> By: Sprezzatura http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-30311 Sprezzatura Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:51:24 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/#comment-30311 <i>Its clear that parent companies — the ones that web developers are hoping to buy them out, ironically — are only too happy to let you use their API’s so long as you don’t get too big, too popular, or too profitable.</i> That's the key graf. Developers who are involved in creating applications in the Salesforce AppExchange are well aware of this issue, too, since SFDC has a habit of buying out the companies who become most successful. Its clear that parent companies — the ones that web developers are hoping to buy them out, ironically — are only too happy to let you use their API’s so long as you don’t get too big, too popular, or too profitable.

That’s the key graf.

Developers who are involved in creating applications in the Salesforce AppExchange are well aware of this issue, too, since SFDC has a habit of buying out the companies who become most successful.

]]> By: engtech http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-30301 engtech Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:17:49 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/20/the-age-of-innocence-is-over-let-the-age-of-petty-spiteful-tyrants-begin/#comment-30301 I do a lot of webscraping and mashups as a hobby (for personal use) and that's one thing I've learned is be careful with sites that give you an API key. The API key is there for one reason and one reason only and that's to lock your application out of the API if they deem it necessary. I do a lot of webscraping and mashups as a hobby (for personal use) and that’s one thing I’ve learned is be careful with sites that give you an API key. The API key is there for one reason and one reason only and that’s to lock your application out of the API if they deem it necessary.

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