Well I've been looking around at some of the other Web Services and Open API directories that have sprung up and I have to say that I think it's great that people are interested in providing this resource to the community.
One thing that I've been thinking about is though is - does it really make sense for all of us to have our own sites?
So - consider this an olive branch to the good folks over at Programmable Web, the Web API tracker and anyone else that I may have missed.
Let's join forces.
Let's give the community one definitive place to go rather than three different places when they want to go look for new APIs to play with or when they want to let people know about the cool APIs that they've got.
Any takers?
I propose a summit at the Web 2.0 conference coming up at bar in neutral territory. I'll buy the first round. :)
Chris
Classy move, Chris.
Posted by: Rob Walling | September 15, 2005 at 05:26 PM
or someone could just start a "data silo aggregator" site and pull the data from the three sites together... ;)
Posted by: kayvaan | September 16, 2005 at 07:49 AM
Sounds like a good idea to me. I'll buy the next round ;-)
http://blog.programmableweb.com/?p=46
Posted by: John Musser | September 16, 2005 at 10:55 AM
Hi,
Web API Tracker here. I'd like to join the fan club for this idea. Personally, I'm so taken with the databases that WSFinder and Programmableweb have put together that I had decided to link to them rather than do anything similar. I'm very happy to effect a merger of some kind.
More offline!
Cheers,
Ivan
Posted by: Ivan Pope | September 16, 2005 at 05:06 PM