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John Sheehan
November 29, 2012
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APIs for Humans
Bridging the gaps between how people use APIs and how developers build them.
John Sheehan
November 29, 2012
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@johnsheehan APIs ~ for humans ~ Wednesday, November 28, 12
Twilio IFTTT Developer Experience Platform Lead RestSharp Creator Wednesday, November
28, 12
How do humans use APIs? Wednesday, November 28, 12
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if then RECIPE TRIGGER ACTION Wednesday, November 28, 12
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Bleep blorp GET POST Wednesday, November 28, 12
Wednesday, November 28, 12
Wednesday, November 28, 12
How do devs build APIs? Wednesday, November 28, 12
Data dumps. Client-driven. One size fits all. Wednesday, November 28,
12
How can we build APIs that speak human? Wednesday, November
28, 12
ARCHIVING Wednesday, November 28, 12
Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale Wednesday, November 28, 12
There's no such thing as too much data. Make search
a part of the API. Wednesday, November 28, 12
SHARING Wednesday, November 28, 12
Wednesday, November 28, 12
Pre-assemble sharable bits of information. Provide curated feeds of high
quality info. Wednesday, November 28, 12
NOTIFICATIONS Wednesday, November 28, 12
what's NEW Wednesday, November 28, 12
Wednesday, November 28, 12
what's NEW Wednesday, November 28, 12
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