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Personal APIs: Better Living Through Collaboration

Event Interactive 2010
Format Solo
Organizer Taylor Davidson Unstructured Ventures
Description How will collaboration methods improve by evolving beyond sharing information and toward exchanging value? Developing "personal APIs" as modularized, standardized interfaces to access, retrieve and manipulate individuals' valuable content and context will reduce interaction transaction costs and unlock better methods for collaboration.
Questions
Answered
  1. What is an API? (application programming interface)
  2. What is a "personal API"?
  3. How to we currently create, share, publish and broadcast information?
  4. How do we currently exchange value through collaboration?
  5. Is more information creating more noise and making it harder to find signals and effectively collaborate?
  6. How are APIs driving web service development? (e.g. how and why are web mashups valuable?)
  7. How can we structure the content and context (information and knowledge, respectively) of our lives?
  8. How can we publish that structure via an API?
  9. What tools currently exist that are showing the path towards "personal APIs?
  10. What tools could emerge in the next 5-10-15 years that could fulfill the promise of "personal APIs"?
Level Intermediate
Category Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Career / Work Concerns, Collaborative Filtering, Other / Out There, User Generated Content