{"id":179,"date":"2007-04-27T21:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:51","slug":"no-such-thing-as-a-free-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/04\/27\/no-such-thing-as-a-free-api\/","title":{"rendered":"No such thing as a free API"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nat Torkington (!) removes some of the romance around free API&#8217;s over on <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/six_rules_for_a.html\">O&#8217;Reilly Radar<\/a>, and he&#8217;s got a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess this is particularly &#8211; mostly &#8211; pertinent for businesses whose <strong>core<\/strong> offering is based on decentralised content, rather than for those (such as museums) who might want to share data as part of a bigger whole. But none the less it&#8217;s a warning shot for those who assume this stuff will always be free, and available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that Michael Arrington&#8217;s <a href=\"www.techcrunch.com\/tag\/deadpool \">Techcrunch&nbsp; deadpool<\/a> will fill up with a myriad of new web2.0 businesses who have too many eggs in the API basket&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Torkington (!) removes some of the romance around free API&#8217;s over on O&#8217;Reilly Radar, and he&#8217;s got a point. I guess this is particularly &#8211; mostly &#8211; pertinent for businesses whose core offering is based on decentralised content, rather than for those (such as museums) who might want to share data as part of &#8230; <a title=\"No such thing as a free API\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/04\/27\/no-such-thing-as-a-free-api\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about No such thing as a free API\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}