The Importance of Web 2.0: Public API for Ad-Hoc Application Integration

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:41:12 -0700

There have been lots of articles/blogs written on Web 2.0.

Here is my take on it: Web 2.0 comes with richer, more responsive user experience. But behind the theme, it really drives the semantic web adoption although people may not have realized that. When you have a web application that updates part of its view (a web page) instead of reloading the whole page or directing to a brand new page, the web application mostly gets the DATA(not the view) from a server and updates the view with the new data. A crucial feature of any web 2.0 application is that it opens a API for getting the application data. Like it or not, the API is public because it's exposed through HTTP regardless whether developers behind it indent to have it as a pubic API. People can easily use some tools to analyze HTTP requests to reverse-engineering the API.

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The Importance of Web 2.0: Public API for Ad-Hoc Application Integration