From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni lessons learned

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20th Century Business and APIs...

There is a perspective some people apply to evolution, social theory, and language change called punctuated equilibrium (credit goes to Jess Ruefli for pointing this out). It suggests that change is not gradual, but that change comes in sudden punctuated bursts between stretches of relative stasis or equilibrium.

The Web from 1995-2000 was certainly a surge like this as every business "went online" in order to continue to function in a newly competitive economy. I believe that we're going through such a surge right now as the early versions of the web - designed for people using browsers - gives way to the next version: using APIs to design the web for people using applications that communicate on their behalf in complex ways to the services that make up the world's businesses.

[ By Sam Ramji – Darwin's Finches, 20th Century Business, and APIs ]


Darwin's Finches, 20th Century Business, and APIs