Box.net, online file storage/sharing releases API
Over the last year or so I have grown very fond of the strategy of opening up and API to your social media applications. There are three reasons for doing this:
- quickly generate new features that utilize your core functionality
- generate new users which you can subsequently monetize
- quickly scale your application and platform
The fact is, no matter how big your dev team is, there is more resource and creativity outside of your organization than there is within it.
There is a great article here about box.net and its API…
Box.Net provides a very open API for developers. You can access file sharing and Box’s services directly from SOAP, XML POST, or REST API’s. That means we can use them right from Expression Blend’s XML data source giving Blend WPF and Silverlight instant access to online files and sharing. This opens up a whole new realm of functionality to Blend RIA developers..
Box.net is (rightly) getting a lot of acclaim for makin an API vaialable to developers.