Last week the guys behind Lypp.com Erik and Daniel, took the wrapping off of Lypp when they announced a trial focused on the Maple Leaf nation’s mobile users who are basically paying way too much for calls that go between the provinces.
The real stuff though is their API that lets others get involved and embed the Lypp functionality into their applications.
This is exactly the kind of code that would be right up the alley of Mr. Mashup, Thomas Howe would love. Fresh off of the Sylantro Summit last week, I’ll be catching up with him during the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm in London on October 17th, but before that he’s at the Mashery event called “The Business of API’s” in San Francisco, which coincides during the week of Web 2.0, unless the travel God’s are not smiling on him.
API’s are the life’s blood of a company these days. Look at Asterisk. For DIGIUM it is both a source of revenue as well as a platform. The number of companies building telecom ventures on the basis of Asterisk is because of its robust API structure. Companies like SalesForce.com are built on their robust API platform. Skype is releasing more and more API’s all the time through their developer program.
All this means that the idea of interoperability is achieved in a more seamless and much less complicated manner, when the API’s are done right. In the case of Erik and Daniel, you can bet that their API is more than just lip service to the developer crowd and that we may be looking at the next Asterisk in the VoIP arena.