May 21
Learn to Adapt Links for May 21st
by Jeff Kelly- The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion extrapolates the growth of Amazon Web Services to the Web as a whole. The question remains how to monetize this usage. Without the scale or intrinsic financial incentive of Amazon, how do other companies leverage APIs successfully?
- The Science of Irrationality: Why We Humans Behave So Strangely: Scientific American - MIT's Dan Ariely discusses his research in behavioral economics and explains how to deal with our brain's flawed decision-making process.



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