Exposing APIs - third party or homegrown?

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Published on 2010-03-17T23:41:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 0:53 UTC
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Parts of the project I'm currently working on (I can't give details) will be exposed as an API at some point over the next few months and I was wondering whether anyone could recommend a third party API 'provider' (possibly Mashery or SO advertiser Webservius). And I mean recommend in the 'I've used these people and they are good' sense because although I can google for an answer to this question it is more difficult to get truly unbiased opinions.

As an addendum is there much mileage in creating a bespoke API solution and has anyone had any joy going down that road?

Thanks in anticipation.

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