Briefs

From "Yet Another Sign Blogs Are Here To Stay" by Jason Dowdel

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First off they're pulling great data from blogs and they're opening up their data coffers to anyone who registers for an account and download the sdk. So now, instead of developers meeting to discuss a specific language of code, they're discussing APIs and the possibilities that lie in those APIs. Do you have any idea what that means? Do you see a pattern emerging? Blogs and APIs accomplish the same thing. The common man may be an expert with a single post or a single application. That's what I call maturing. Yes programming languages and their progression is critical but they're becoming more and more robust. Allowing smaller and smaller companies to create APIs and benefit from their loyal user communities to get ideas for features and enhancements. That's going to be the secret sauce of data-centric startups now and possibly for good.

With that I must say I'm really excited about Blogs, APIs and companies like Technorati that are aggregating data in real time and opening it up to anyone interested in using it. Information technology companies that don't think about this fundamental shift in data mining and analysis will be left behind in the next 2 - 3 years. Don't believe me? Do your own research and see what conclusions you draw.

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