Joke aside, I highly recommend watching this talk about Comcast's HTML based APIs: <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/web-api-html" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoq.com/presentations/web-api-html</a> .
Aren't all those Microdata and Microformats things API's over HTML? Maybe those things could get another look by normal developers.<p>That said, the people at the IndieWeb[1] movement are makign heavy use of microformats2[2] to create beautiful HTML decentralized social networks.<p>[1]: <a href="http://indiewebcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://indiewebcamp.com/</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2" rel="nofollow">http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2</a>
sort of reminds me of that airtime challenge I took. <a href="http://challenge2.airtime.com:2324/instructions" rel="nofollow">http://challenge2.airtime.com:2324/instructions</a>