eBay Sees Web 2.0 Light
2005-11-19

eBay will make access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) free to its more than 21,000 developers. This should happen as soon as Monday. Quoting Richard MacManus: This is a common sense move in the Web 2.0 world, because it no longer matters if users buy and sell on eBay's official website. As long as eBay gets a cut of the auction, the User Interface could be in Timbuktu for all they care. To paraphrase Steve Ballmer, it's all about Data, Data, Data (cut to monkey dance).