The Productologist

I wrote earlier about how I was confused about why someone would base their business on someone else’s APIs. I found this article on Programmable Web about a company called YottaMusic that had done just that and gotten bit by the API owner (Rhapsody) discontinuing support of the API.

You can read their write up and check out other reports.

From what I have read, it sounds like the YottaMusic service was a well-liked enhancement to the Rhapsody service, but they developed their product based on undocumented APIs.

Thoughts? Am I missing the boat on this?

[Business2.0 homage #1]

Back in July 2007, there was a article in Business 2.0 about making mashups easy for non-technical users. As more and more users embrace web technologies, companies have looked for ways to provide a way for the unfettered masses to take advantage of the latest and greatest that the Internet has to offer. Internet publishing is a prime example of how a previously complex process (coding HTML, creating images, creating dynamic pages, FTP’ing files, etc) turned into blogging, which is now accessible to anyone with an Internet connection who can type and remember their login and password.

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