Texas Startup Blog written by Alexander Muse

Note to team, build our stuff like this:

April 8, 2007

I was logging into Flickr and noticed a diagram from Tara’s Flickrstream that I liked so I recreated it for my own use. The idea is VERY simple, but more often than not WE don’t build applications like this. The two most important ideas are a) use semantic data and make it RESTful and b) build an API (application programming interface) and most importantly use it in your own application.

Tara’s goal was to explain that you should allow people interact with your application in more than one way. The web is only one way to interface with your application, make sure you design it to take advantage of other non-web interfaces.