Business of API & Data

Application Programing Interface, in short, API is very common term for any software professional. Once, one cross "Hello World" or "This is my first program" in the programming worlds - you get to the world of APIs. These low level programing constructs are becoming business drivers in the world of web beyond browser.

Look at these 3 company in this space - Apigee, BlueVia & Mahery.  They all manage APIs and  help developers in building application using these APIs. Intersting enough that BlueVia is a spin off from Telefonica  - a large telecommunication company.

ProgrammableWeb, directory of API and Mashup listed 3375 APIs and 5886 Mashups as on today. You can look for API and start using.

So, is this is a new business model? From developing a web to developing APIs. API-as-a-Service. Looks like future will be on using the APIs to mine the data and build innovative apps based on these 2!

Mon's winning art work at Bangalore Art competetion

Here is Mon's winning art work at Bangalore Art competetion organized by 3 Peel on June 19 at UB City. Top left one.

What I saw last week end at TED

Two interesting and thought provoking videos - both from TED. One on "Magic Washing Machine" by Hans Rosling and next one on "What makes life worthwhile" by Chip Conley.


Magic Washing Machine" by Hans Rosling


What makes life worthwhile by Chip Conley

Will you fly an Open Source Airplane?

Some one asked this interesting question somewhere and to someone! Are you "yes" or "No"?

Remember, future is co-created!

Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011

Bloomberg list of Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011.  Simple ideas are attracting fundings to create wealth.

A New Kind of App Store - SnapStore

Apple's revolutionary AppStore concept has gone far beyond creating applications for mobile or tablets. SnapLogic, a cloud integration co, is using the appstore concept to create a connectors called Snaps. As a developer once you are done building the Snap you can upload and put your price tag - you get 70% of the sales revenue.

Mamon, do you know why success is elusive?

Mamon, we are middle of big & critical project. Inspite of our best effort, doing whatever is required to be successfull, we are missing our schedule. Stakeholders/ sponsors are very unhappy. Team is putting countless extra hours, weekends, nights - infact I can see they are bleeding but still motivated to pull it out. We moving forward but looks like someone is pulling us back again & again. We are crossing hurdles, solving issues ... and after each of these we thought we are there ... but, dear, success is elusive to us. Sometime we call it bad luck. But, we also know, we need create luck. Do you know why it is so? Do you know why success if elusive at times?