Credit where credit is due
It was very gratifying to see Twhirl support Identi.ca yesterday. They got some glowing press for it, but let’s make sure a fair amount of the credit goes to the two companies that went for compatibility and helped create what’s beginning to look like a standard — the Twitter API.
First, to Twitter for having the guts to put an API on Twitter, and making it open and clonable. And second, to the team it Identi.ca who made complete compatibility the goal, so much so that you just need to change the address in a client and everything “just works.” My initial testing showed that they did attain that level of compatibility, and it was confirmed by the experiences of the developers.
When people say they don’t care about APIs, they miss the point that if developers do it the right way, as these guys did, then compatibility is not a competitive issue, users have choices, and products compete on virtue: performance, features and economics, not lock-in. It’s the exception not the rule in the tech business that APIs and format compatibility is respected by the vendors, and it should be celebrated when it happens, as it did here.
Bravo! Everybody who made this happen. Good show. 
Source:Credit where credit is due