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20 February 2007
Jason Chuck - Open APIs
Posted by Paul Miller at February 20, 2007 02:43 PM
Jason Chuck from Google is up on stage at Future of Web Apps; he's based in London, and responsible for Google Maps, Google Earth etc development in Europe.
Jason's talking about the increasing ability to embed KML in Google Maps as well as its original use in Google Earth, and showing some of the models built in SketchUp.
He's stressing the importance of open and useful apis, to make it as easy as possible for developers to build new apps unanticipated by Google. Increased usage is good for Google, and others. Tight deployment of their apis in our apps is also - of course - a form of lock-in, that persuades us to keep building upon their foundations...
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