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title: "How To Roll Out An Open API"
date: 2005-06-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# How To Roll Out An Open API

[Excellent techie tips from O’Reilly Radar](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315003550/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/web_services_es.html "How To Roll Out An Open API"): “A longer-term solution is to build your business model into the API. In my mind the most successful APIs for the company providing the APIs are those from Amazon and eBay.”

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_roll_out.php))*