21Jun
Reciprocation, Open APIs and caching data coming from web services
Posted by Jeff as Innovation
This is exactly where the notion of mashups comes up a little short in my opinion. It’s exceptionally difficult to deliver a service that features dependencies on 3rd party services, both from the user experience standpoint but also from performance and reliability. Mashups are a stepping stone to something more meaningful that has yet to be defined.
Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Reciprocation, Open APIs and caching data coming from web services:
Its really hard to create a compelling end-user experience when you’re linking to external sources. We’ve been trying it for over a year now – with some sucess, but in general if you want to include (let’s say) your external blog in some other service – its far from satisfactory experience.
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