"My interest in distributed web businesses – web businesses that don’t reside on a single domain, but instead span across various web sites – stems from necessity. While the long tail of the Web is getting longer, so is the percentage of overall pageviews absorbed by the head of that tail. If your site isn’t one of those elite sites at the head of the curve, you’re most likely losing ground every day. In this environment, you either find ways to put your content / functionality / service in front of people where THEY are, or you wither away into irrelevance. At a macro level, there are four broad strategies that can be undertaken to get" Join discussion...

"Wine.com has launched an innovative way to expose their catalog - via RSS with the API on top. Evolving the Typical Online Catalog Until recently, Wine.com was just a basic wine catalog. It was well designed and easy to navigate, but it was definitely a web 1.0 kind of site. As the winds of the new web started to blow, the company realized that it needed to stay on top of the wave. With competitors like Corkd, Snooth and the wildly entertaining WineLibrary.tv innovating in the wine space, the Join discussion...

"EBay, the giant auction site has opened up its platform so that third-party companies can build features that work with eBay in new ways. It continues the trend seen across the Web, where successful companies are ones who develop a community of support around their platform, with Facebook’s momentum being the most recent powerful example of that." Join discussion...

"Dass es durchaus förderlich ist, öffentliche und kostenfrei APIs anzubieten, sieht man an dem Beispiel eBay (siehe auh hier). Die eBay-API ermöglicht es Softwareentwicklern individuelle Applikationen für eBay-Käufer und eBay-Verkäufer zu entwickeln. So gibt es beispielsweise branchen- oder plattformspezifische Lösungen, die Prozesse für die Verkäufer und Käufer optimieren." Join discussion...