Robin Wauters on TechCrunch [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/03/let-a-thousand-web-apis-blossom/] related today that “ProgrammableWeb has been doing a fantastic job chronicling web app APIs for over three years, and today they reached a milestone, surpassing 1000 APIs tracked…”
I found this part of the post particularly telling even though I am not a tech aficionado:
“…here is a rundown of the top 15 sectors or markets with the greatest number of competing API providers. Mapping seems to be the most popular, while you would expect video, search, photo, social and music to score higher. The smallest number is even more telling: it’s APIs for blogging.
On a technology level, they also offer a nice observation: 63% of the APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory are REST-based.
