Scale the API Economy: The Open API Definition

Leap of Faith

Mehdi MedjaouiCo-founder@medjawii

#openAPIdefinition

{“apis”: “the joy”}

Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_API

You said “open”?

Between what I think, What I want to say, What I believe to say,What I actually say,What you want to hear,What you actually hear,What you believe you understand,What you want to understand,What you actually understand,It make 9 ways to not understand each other

B.Werber

Scale the API economy?What is the future?

Theory of the firm applied to APIs

the level of capital to innovate for new actors

the ROI of assets for old actors

Economy of Functionality

at worldwideweb speed and scale !

BtoB sharing economy

In the API economy, an API is more than an

Application Programming Interface

It’s a contract between a provider and consumer

Leap of faith for a better society :“Leave your natural freedom for a civilian freedom”

To Scale the API landscape, we need to make a leap of faith.Today.

Leap of faith

3 actual leaps of faith that scaled

the industry

Since 1883

1,000,000 patents in total, 2004

Released to ISO in the 60’

95% of the shipping industry is containerized

CERN

April 30, 1993

The Indexed Web contains at least 2.06

billion pages (Wednesday, 26 March, 2014).

from http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/

Never was so much owed by so many to so few.

W. Churchill

March 27th, 2014The Open API definition

Leap of Faith

“The first draft of everything is shit” E.Hemingway

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be written”

1) New resources to the network

2) Transparency

3) Accessibility

4) Interoperability

5) Attribution, re-use and derived works

6) Neutrality

7) ToS, Policy & changes

8) Reliability

9) Commons

The Graal?

Transform your users into practitionners.

If we don’t try, who will?

https://github.com/openapimanifesto/firstDraft

Discuss about it today on apiscene.com