Subspace: secure cross-domain communication for web mashups
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Multiple asynchronous requests on a client-based mashup page
AST/UCMA/ISA/ACN'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Advances in computer science and information technology
SAICSIT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
A document-centric approach to open collaboration processes
ICWE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering
Simplifying mashup component selection with a combined similarity- and social-based technique
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Web APIs and Service Mashups
Socially-Enriched semantic mashup of web APIs
ICSOC'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Social machines: a unified paradigm to describe social web-oriented systems
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
A Social-Aware Service Recommendation Approach for Mashup Creation
International Journal of Web Services Research
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This paper investigates the structure and dynamics of the Web 2.0 software ecosystem by analyzing empirical data on web service APIs and mashups. Using network analysis tools to visualize the growth of the ecosystem from December 2005 to 2007, we find that the APIs are organized into three tiers, and that mashups are often formed by combining APIs across tiers. Plotting the cumulative distribution of mashups to APIs reveals a power-law relationship, although the tail is short compared to previously reported distributions of book and movie sales. While this finding highlights the dominant role played by the most popular APIs in the mashup ecosystem, additional evidence reveals the importance of less popular APIs in weaving the ecosystem's rich network structure.