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Patrick Chanezon about Platforms and Software Development

 

Innovation happens elsewhere… thanks to APIs

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Paul Buchheit posted an excellent piece today, Communicating with code, which touches many of my favorite topics: the importance of APIs for innovation, prototypes, iteration. He reasserts an idea that I’ve heard initially from Bill Joy at JavaOne 2003, that innovation happens elsewhere. Public APIs enable everyone to experiment with new ideas and create new […]

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Slides for the Octo IT University conference

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Here are the slides for the 2 sessions at the Octo IT University conference: Be Googley, a corporate culture for innovation, with Marc-Antoine Guarrigue Google APIs for the Enterprise, with Philippe Kernevez The conference was excellent. French philosopher Michel Serres gave the best talk, the first day. He started with an ethymological exegesis of Robin […]

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Slides for “Google Opening up to Developers” talk at Evans Data Conference

April 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference I gave a talk, Google Opening up to Developers: From 3 to 40 APIs in 2 years about the history of Google APIs up to yesterday (with the launch of Google App Engine). Here are the slides: | View | Upload your own

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