04/01/09
3scale makes your API cheaper, better!
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By Mark Gibbs
If you're building serious Web applications, whether for
internal projects or as commercial offerings, and you want to
maximize the reach of your services, you're going to have to
provide an API.Read full story
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Mark Gibbs mailto:mgibbs@gibbs.com is a consultant, author,
journalist, columnist and blogger
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