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Friday, April 7. 2006

API Providers Eating their Own Dogfood

The open and commercial API offerings have some parallels to APIs in desktop and other products. Some companies offer APIs for use and commercialization to third parties in addition to building on the APIs themselves. For example, ESRI offers many extensions built on its API and engages many partners to do so. GlobeXplorer offers its imagery as a Web service and uses it as the basis of its Property Analyst (a paid service).

It will be interesting to see if the API providing organizations continue to build on their APIs or look for more partners. Microsoft seems to be actively looking for partners for its API. Other players, so far as I can tell, as standing by to see what happens.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LI 2006 at 07:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (9) | Bookmark and Share

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At Microsoft on the Virtual Earth team we are doing both, as we have for years.

We build a mapping platform and expose a Public API to it for third party developers and partners to use. Loopnet, Starbucks, and Yellowpages.com are all examples of applications built by and for our partners. together with these customers and ISV's we've built quite an active community for solution providers which you can read about here - http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/partners/default.mspx

We then use the very same API and platform to build consumer facing websites like Windows Live Local and MSN Maps and Directions.

Steve Lombardi
Virtual Earth Program Manager
stevelom at microsoft dot com
#1 Steve lombardi (Link) on 2006-04-07 10:33 (Reply)

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