API Research

Studying the API space is what I do.  API Evangelist started 2 years ago as a research project in Summer of 2010.  Here we are in 2012 and I'm still going.  

To make money I've taken API Evangelist jobs and projects, to help me stay focused on the Business of APIs I'm accepting investement in a couple project areas:

  • Business of Twitters API - Establish a deeper understanding of how Twitter has built their ecosystem. 
  • API Stack - Establish a curated directory of high value APIs, with a ranking and monitoring system to track progress around these APIs.

Those are just the active research areas I'm working that are being funded.  Upcoming research includes research and profiling in the business of:

  • Facebook's Open API & Platform
  • Google APIs
  • LinkedIn Developer Platform
  • Twilio 
  • Amazon Web Services
  • EBay

Each research project produces all or many of the following components:

  • Raw Research
  • Blog Post(s)
  • White Paper(s)
  • Book(s)
  • Interactive Dashboard
  • Visualizations

If you are interested in any of these areas of API research, please contact me directly.  My goal is to provide content for my blogs and research that will educate everyone about the API space, while also funding what I do.  

I don't just enjoy understanding the API space.  I believe APIs are going to assist in driving a healthy economy, government and become a ubiquiotous part of our everyday lives.  

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