Most of their work now includes collaboration with developers that are building on top of their API.

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Now, the CrunchBase team has started to demonstrate what top developers using the CrunchBase API do with the data.

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Unlike services like Facebook and Twitter, which invited third-party developers to build on top of their platform and then turned around and offered competing services, App.net is conceived as a pure API a set of programming instructions that let developers access a real-time feed.

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