Open platform will be the future direction of internet development

Microblogging API application, I believe many people know. Because now microblogging is very hot, many people in their own independent blog to open the application of the microblogging API. But when it comes to open platforms, many people are not quite sure, and today Bersing will take you to the open platform as an observer.

In fact, the so-called open platform, is to provide a basic service, and then through the opening of its own interface (API), so that Third-party developers can use and assemble their interfaces and other Third-party service interfaces to generate new applications, and enable the application to be unified on the platform, We call such a network service model an open platform.

A classic example of an open platform is that Google,google is a pioneer and leader in the open API, and has a list of growing APIs, such as the search API, the Google MAP API, the Opensocial API, More on the open platform, the launch of open mobile platform Android and cloud computing platform App Engine services. Google calls its own "open platform strategy" to create a more open and transparent Internet world, which seems to be in the interests of both Internet users and Google itself.

Facebook is also seen as one of the role models in the open space of the platform. Facebook launched its code-F8 open platform, opening its API to Third-party software, and being used by Apple to spread the iphone and ipod Touch platform with viral marketing. Facebook's innovation attempt is more than that, and they have also launched Facebook Connect, a new technology that allows Facebook users to link their personal data and authentication credentials to other external sites with their accounts. Today, 60 million users connect to 80,000 Third-party websites via Facebook. For Facebook, this means that it has been transformed into a social networking platform by a single social networking site. Facebook has a shot at the Internet through its own open platform, and is now being emulated by many domestic internet companies.

Now that the open platform has become a very popular word, even always closed Tencent QQ unexpectedly all Tenpay products on the open platform, it is enough to witness the strategic significance of the open platform, coupled with the already open Renren, Sina Weibo and Baidu search open platform, it seems that overnight all portals in swarmed do open platform. But open platform is not a panacea, eat can make your business success, do an open platform, first of all a large base of loyal users, followed by a strategic open platform business plan, with practical means to stimulate and motivate third-party developers to invest in open platform construction, Let the third party can obtain the tangible benefit, achieves the common development, the common profit, this can decide an open platform the success or failure. But how much of this openness has brought benefits to developers? We do not know whether they are really open or open, yet time to verify.

The opening of the internet is an inevitable way for the development of the network, meaning that the third party to provide content, means that netizens will become the real owner of the Internet, also means that the nature of the Internet from the media into a tool for netizens to use. This tool emphasizes collaboration, emphasizes self-help, and emphasizes that everything is done to the best of things.