Thread: Wtf are APIs
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Old 08-17-2012, 04:00 PM  
edgeprod
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Originally Posted by VenusBlogger View Post
The question is how are people supposed to make money using APIs ?..

I mean, I really don't see any difference between using or not using API's...

Using API's won't make you convert better than not using them.

Really wonder why people get so crazy about API's?... Really wondering, unless im missing some "SECRET" of the api..

I guess nobody will answer me, right?

Piriod.
It's pretty simple, actually: APIs allow you to automate tasks in a predictable fashion. If you can build it by hand, you can build 1,000 of them in a few minutes with an API.

So, let's take a blog and a tube, for example. If a sponsor has an API, I can suck down all of their content they way *I* want it (not how their RSS feed makes me have it), and display it the way *I* want it.

Not wanting to have that flexibility, power, and availability shows a poor understanding of online marketing, or is just plain laziness.

Does that make better sense?
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