The same author recently presented at Gluecon about the future of APIs. The presentation can be found here and is an interesting read: <a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/06/05/reaching-a-million-apis-and-what-to-do-when-we-get-there/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/06/05/reaching-a-millio...</a>
Is great to see a lot of companies releasing APIs but if even better as a developer start a project and being able to easily use external services and even integrate your app with bigger services. Imagine creating an e-commerce an integrating your catalog with stuff from macys, amazon, etc.
I think that Twitter has absorbed some of the long tail - it's pretty easy to use a twitter account as a proxy for read and write commands for a low scale device or web site, of course you can't make it a chargeable interaction!
Glad to see the takeup of APIs by the public sector. Will be interesting to watch whether emerging API management solutions can help the open data movement by enabling smarter ways of accessing government data.
Very interesting analysis and segmentation of APIs! I am just wondering which factor has been so the most prominent for not having the long tail represented (or badly)?