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Not quite the same point - but similar thoughts: http://bit.ly/N9HnAD http://bit.ly/N9HnAD. What's really missing is a proper service contract. Not giving guara
by njyx 14y ago
Not quite the same point - but similar thoughts: http://bit.ly/N9HnAD http://bit.ly/N9HnAD. What's really missing is a proper service contract. Not giving guarantees - or at best implicit ones will kill ecosystems.
- ChuckMcM 14y ago[ FWIW you don't need to use a url shortner here, and it's actually preferred that you don't. If you're worried that folks will say "Gee he's just clicking to his own service" and down vote your comment, if they click through and see that you did that, and they are so inclined, they will do that anyway. ] I don't know if I agree with your suggestion that the reason Twitter doesn't charge for their API is that they don't have a proper service contract (or by implication an API infrastructure). Some services make little sense until they are 'large' and getting 'large' is hindered by cost. What Twitter doesn't have is a 'freemium' model of API access, but I don't doubt they will get there eventually.