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Except the term "web service" is just as overloaded as "API" - its got the very specific old school meaning of a SOAP/WSDL API which typically isn't exposed as

by blater 11y ago

Except the term "web service" is just as overloaded as "API" - its got the very specific old school meaning of a SOAP/WSDL API which typically isn't exposed as a service on the web :(

IvanGoncharov 11y ago
What about "REST API"?
- tedyoung 11y ago
  Alas, that seems to have also been reduced to simply meaning "JSON over HTTP", instead of taking advantage of Hypermedia, but there is hope with more articles, such as http://www.infoq.com/articles/programming-semantic-profiles http://www.infoq.com/articles/programming-semantic-profiles, being written.