Introducing the next killer app: The API

The next killer app should free you, not tie you up. Learn to let go of the simple portal which either doesn't know or doesn't care about giving you your data. Throw away your one-size-fits-all applications. Discard your thick client can-only-use-on-one-computer solutions, abandon your installed behind the corporate firewall vendor stacks. Strive for simple and open protocols, embrace hosted in the cloud services, love the API and the data it allows you to get too. Pick the applications that suit your needs, adopt services that give you access to your data. It's your data, it doesn't belong to them. You are the user, customer and developer. Choose integration and syndication. Choose the web. Choose life.