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Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu... by macca321 on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:04AM (#4316345)
I don't think central API registries are the the long term future of APIs (despite the fact that I bought apinest.com with half a mind to setting one up :).

At some point we are going to move to self-describing APIs, documented at source. Check out the http://restfulobjects.org/ spec for ideas on how this will work.

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Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu... by fosk on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:41AM (#4316427)
Which would be great. We strongly believe that self-describing hypermedia APIs are the future, hopefully sooner or later we'll be able to focus more on the experience (buying/tracking/monitoring/bug tracking) and less on supporting thousands different formats/descriptions. Unfortunately it's still a super-fragmented market.
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