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Is great to see a lot of companies releasing APIs but if even better as a developer start a project and being able to easily use external services and even inte
by plunchete 14y ago
Is great to see a lot of companies releasing APIs but if even better as a developer start a project and being able to easily use external services and even integrate your app with bigger services. Imagine creating an e-commerce an integrating your catalog with stuff from macys, amazon, etc.
- njyx 14y agoI think this will end up happening - Amazon already lets you suck out it's catalogue and push affiliate sales back to it. You could likely build very sophisticated niche virtual retail sites if all the bricks and motar data was there also. Interestingly in the survey the number of ecommerce APIs was actually a lot lower than we thought it would be. This might be a blip in this "generation" of APIs, or that it's simply hard to do still.