When openness moves up the stack, opportunity knocks...

The advent of hosted web applications and services that communicate primarily over HTTP kicked off a revolution that has resulted in a growing ecology of Open APIs. Just as Open Source Software spawned entirely new businesses (and business models), Open APIs offer just as much potential—maybe even more in our increasingly networked world.

But at the same time, OpenAPIs are very different creatures from downloadable Open Source Software. This presentation, inspired by Toni Schneider's blog post titled "Open Source vs. Open APIs" looks at those differences and what they mean for those producing and consuming them. We will include real-life experiences from Automattic and Yahoo!