Chapter 7The APIs: Interfaces and Ecosystems

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By Philipp Weckerle

Having hundreds of millions of people globally connected together pervasively via one single high speed/two-way network (aka the Internet) will result in many of the things we’re now seeing in the marketplace. It seems a fundamental new widespread focus on leveraging that two-way aspect of the network deeply in our online products, as well as increasingly playing to the fundamental strengths of the network that is the Web, is teaching us invaluable lesson after invaluable new lesson for our businesses. The result is that the living laboratory of the Web is now the source of the greater part of our innovation ...

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