What an API does, in essence, is make it easy for the information a service contains to be integrated with the wider Internet. So, to make the metaphor here clear, Occupy Wall Street today can be seen like the early days of Twitter.com.

Facebook keeps close track of where millions of non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.

Web 2.0 Summit: Self Expression through Social Media- Chris Poole

Brian Cox Lecture - Science: A Challenge to TV Orthodoxy (3/3)

System of Systems