The Road More Travelled, The Genius of API’s
Best Buy’s announcement todays that is opening its doors to an almost infinite number of new store locations is proof positive of the genius of API’s, the code that allows third parties to dig into your goods, your inventory, your data and offer it up in ways that suit their customer base. Today no one can be everywhere or know every possible interface between what you do and what people want and that is the beauty of shared data. Create once, sell many times. Data should be free.
Reference http://remix.bestbuy.com/ and http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/twenty-years-later-the-web-is-finally-turning-into-a-computer