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25 Jul 2006
API Parity
I am rereading some of the discussion around API's and Flickr. Marc Canter seems to be totally in favour of API Parity. In the discussion I am missing the owner of the photo's What does he want? Does he want somebody else to take his photo's and host them elsewehere? And what kind of operations are allowed on the photo's? So does hosting at Flickr allow for commercial hosting on Zoomr? I do not think so?
MicroContent Hosting companies that support API's should better define what can be done with the MicroContent hosted by them for users. They should integrate Creative Commons into their system and let users decide what is allowed and what not PER photo. Any API should follow these licences. And with an increasing amount of mashing this only becomes more important.