A user of his API does not need to know where the data originated, leaving Naveen in control of the interaction. Naveen’s work demonstrates the value of an aggregated Personal API. He wrote about tracking personal metrics in one place, and posted the start of a personal data aggregation api that appears to no longer work. The first blog post that I read mentioning Personal APIs was written in 2013 by Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai. Remaining in our current state will only further cement our position as ‘assets’ to the business who sell access to our eyeballs and tightly control the data behind their APIs. In order to be first class citizens in the api economy, we must have APIs ourselves. What we need is a way for businesses (and other people) to call us, to call our API. The Internet is a much better place with these APIs in use. The existence and use of all these Business APIs is great. I use a Business called IFTTT to repost my Instagram Posts to Facebook. Businesses communicate with other businesses with APIs. Your Facebook app on your phone calls a Facebook API on Facebook’s servers to load information. APIs already exist all over the internet, but only businesses have them.
#Brian proffitt readwrite software#
Software talks to other software via APIs, allowing systems to coordinate, automate, and share data. To solve this problem, we need a way to communicate directly in all forms of our communication. None of us would put up with our voice calls being interfered with in this manner, but we don’t think twice about allowing our other forms of communication to exist in such a perverse way. Imagine if your phone calls were ‘algorithmically rearranged’ for your convenience. Our contacts are all maintained in the app, and our communication is required to fit the requirements of the apps that we use. We all have apps on our phones that stay connected to Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. This scenario might sound completely ludicrous, but we are all living in a reality that functions just this way. They may even regularly interrupt the call with advertisements to ‘enhance our experience.’
The business may place restrictions on our phone call, including which words we can speak and the length of the call. If both you and I are connected on the phone to the same business, we can ask to be connected, and then we can talk. Businesses can’t call us either, so the only way to have phone calls is to stay on the line with a business in case somebody wants to talk. You can call any business you like, but connecting a phone call to another person requires that you ask a business to help you. Imagine a world where only businesses had phone numbers.
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