"Open" will find a way
By way of
Don Box, I just came across
this story-ette.
evilapi.com - what a great domain!
For those who haven't been following the story of
Google's removal of its SOAP API to its search engine, you can catch up on the
news so far at Slashdot.
As Don says, don't you just love the web? Open standards and universal markets mean that if there's demand for something you have, the market will find a way to help fulfil it - whether you as a supplier are ready or not.
I know plenty of other people have provided good insight into the challenges and opportunities around mashups, but to me this is a stark example of the issues faced by every enterprise offering services or resources on the web.
With mashup techniques becoming more and more widely understood, from a technical perspective at least your online assets are pretty much public property. If you're not prepared to offer facilities to make things easy to consume, then it could be that someone else will provide those facilities.
And you might not even know it.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I'll be back in 2007.
Labels: google scraping, mashups
