#Oh the things you can do… with an API!
Most successful companies on the web today from Amazon to Dropbox to Google to Twitter expose some kind of API to their users to write their own applications and interact with their application programmatically. They expose an even deeper API for their internal teams.
Even Dries recognizes the importance of being able to output data in different formats and now Drupal has an awesome Web Services and Context Core Initiative
With Drupal, your site doesn't have to be big, or small, or even cool to have an API. It just has to be running Drupal! (So by definition it would be cool anyways).
In this session we'll delve into a discussion of APIs built using the Services Module. We'll talk about how internal APIs can be leveraged to transform your website into an SOA application and how external APIs can bring more adoption a