An API Economy (B2B Service Platform)

With more and more businesses wanting to expose their services across different channels, API service platforms has evolved into a big need of the hour.Top Players in the market,

1. Apigee

1. Mashery

1. 3Scale

1. APISpark by Restlet

What do they offer,

1. API Usage Metering/billing

1. API Traffic control 

1. API Auth/Auth

1. Performance & High Scalability

1. Logging

Do I use it in any of my projects, well I haven’t. But they seem to bridge niche area in enabling content providers to expose content and build a revenue around the API.
No wonder why API is a most used, abused & powerful terminology is software :)