{"id":107,"date":"2008-06-25T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/06\/25\/gorilla-platform-apis-let-your-partners-figure-out-new-features\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T23:50:17","slug":"gorilla-platform-apis-let-your-partners-figure-out-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/gorilla-platform-apis-let-your-partners-figure-out-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorilla platform APIs:  let your &#8220;partners&#8221; figure out new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/10\/07\/the-brilliance-of-internet-platform-apis\/\">wrote about the brilliance of platform APIs<\/a> for the big guys:\u00a0 let your app developers figure out what the market wants, and then incorporate those into your system.\u00a0 Most API terms prohibit you from suing the platform provider, effectively giving them a non-exclusive license to everything you do.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/06\/25\/facebook-adds-comment-to-the-mini-feed-its-like-friendfeed-is-looking-in-the-mirror\/\">examples of Facebook absconding app features<\/a>.\u00a0 From VentureBeat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Facebook has a history of mimicking the functionality of hot services around the web. Your status updates weren\u2019t always there, you used to have to go to Twitter to do that. Then Facebook rolled out that functionality in a way that looked eerily similar to Twitter in some regards.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote about the brilliance of platform APIs for the big guys:\u00a0 let your app developers figure out what the market wants, and then incorporate those into your system.\u00a0 Most API terms prohibit you from suing the platform &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/gorilla-platform-apis-let-your-partners-figure-out-new-features\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}