The document discusses 10 ways that APIs can be used to change the world. It suggests using APIs to help make the world more generous by powering philanthropic services, to advance scientific research by providing APIs for scientific publications and data, to make great content more widely available by allowing remixing and reusing of content, and to put energy and environmental data as well as government and human knowledge data in the hands of developers to build useful applications. Overall it argues that APIs can be used to create new resources and empower people by opening up access to important data.

1. Speak Beautiful XML to me - 10 ways to change the world with APIs Ignite Talk @ LeWeb 2010 Steven Willmott 3scale networks

2. APIs = GLUE

3. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> … </MyMethod> <(#*@&@#*> ERROR::403::Authentication Failure Pretty Hard to Love!!

4. So what are these things? Raw programming access data and applications! Lots of Business Benefits..

5. But this talk isn’t about that… 10 ways to change the world with APIs…

6. #1 Help the World be More Generous!

7. Power Tomorrow’s Science #2 1730 services for Scientists

8. #3 Mashup Scientific Publications Authors Citations High Quality Data

9. (#3) Google Scholar API Campaign… No API (yet? :))

10. Great Content Everywhere #4 Remix, Re-use, Re-publish (… & Monetize!)

11. Energy Data at People’s Fingertips #5

12. #6 AppstoPatchthePlanet Realtime Data Environmental Apps Complete Control

13. (#6) No Excuses… Data is Available Apps can be built!

14. #7 Government Data Opens Up

15. #8 CreateNewResources = API + http://www.undata-api.org/

16. #9 Remix Human Knowledge! http://linkeddata.org/

17. (#9) Open Data Empowers Wikipedia is Web 2.0 “Wiki-API” is Web 3.0?

18. #10 Maintain Biodiversity Data.gbif.org – 250 Million Species Entries

19. Get Data into the Right Hands Bring it to Users Wherever they are!

20. APIs are hard to love… But can do Beautiful things!

21. Thank You!! steve@3scale.netwww.3scale.netwww.slideshare.net -> stevenwillmott@njyx (full credits + creative commons version coming)