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Already the seventh post of series "The pursuit of APIness", and it is now time to conclude by outlining another strategic issue substantially bound to APIs: local expertises. As a matter of fact, since the very goal of an API is to cross the line of existing web property (i.e. a website, a database) and open monitored accesses to data, releasing an API can make other websites orbitting in nearby niches use your API, i.e. use your data, i.e. transform your data into the local reference.
The first five posts of series "The Pursuit of APIness" went through technical examples of how APIs actually work, from an illustration of how to hack a web form with a PHP script to how to design and program an API using custom XML, or following the REST principles, or using XML-RPC or SOAP. It is now time to wrap up everything we've learnt about web APIs and to understand why they're so strategic.
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