Comments on: More on the Open API Revolution

By: Security > 140 Conversation with Craig Burton | Craig Burton

Security > 140 Conversation with Craig Burton | Craig Burton — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:26:53 +0000

[...] in his recent work, Craig explores the API Economy and how participating in the API economy reconfigures organizations’ [...]

By: craigburton

craigburton — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:15:18 +0000

Thanks Steven. I would love to talk to you about this. Give me a call at 801-369-5974 and lets discuss. I know these numbers are conservative. It's what I have in hand.

By: Pat Patterson

Pat Patterson — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:49:55 +0000

Great post – and it exactly mirrors our experience at salesforce.com – more than half of our traffic is now via the APIs rather than the browser, and the rate of uptake is only increasing as mobile apps take advantage of our REST APIs. We also see a large amount of outbound API traffic to Twitter, Facebook etc. In fact, I blogged just yesterday on integrating with Pusher for real-time updates – http://blogs.developerforce.com/developer-relatio…

By: Steven Willmott

Steven Willmott — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:30:14 +0000

Actually I'd say the number will be way more than 30k in 2016 (lots of work for you Adam!) – we're seeing more than 70% of the companies we talk to at 3scale have an API which is internal or partner private that are not yet listed in public directories (that's today), and almost without fail these have long term plans to open up more broadly. So you might need to reset the starting point number to (for exmple) 10,000 APIs today or more.

By: Adam DuVander

Adam DuVander — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:15:46 +0000

Thanks for the great analysis. If you're right, we have our work cut out for us!