Irresistible APIs

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Chapter 1. What makes an API irresistible?

Figure 1.1. A blog incorporating a Twitter feed as well as API functionality for sharing to multiple social networks. A widget provides buttons for each of the social networks—Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook—and this widget incorporates that network’s API into the site in a manner that’s easy to implement.

Figure 1.2. Example API interactions with a monitoring application. When the monitoring application detects a change, it can propagate it to a website, mobile application, SMS notification, or email.

Figure 1.3. This chart describes an adaptations mashup using Freebase, Amazon, and Netflix. The user is presented with a grid of book-based movies matching a specific genre, and ...