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Mark Boyd

Mixing music with machine learning

Imagining a new feature on behalf of Spotify* (but not actually from Spotify)…

9 min readMay 11, 2018

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Mixing music with machine learning

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Mark Boyd
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Hitch HQ

Using APIs to Drive Internal Change

We have all drunk the Kool Aid: today’s businesses need to be customer-facing, which means they need to embrace digital as a way to make…

5 min readJun 14, 2017

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Using APIs to Drive Internal Change

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Mark Boyd
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Hitch HQ

Shedding Light on APIs as a Market Differentiator

We often talk about the business value of APIs being time-to-market advantage (because with reusable components you can build new products…

4 min readMay 30, 2017

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Shedding Light on APIs as a Market Differentiator

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Mark Boyd
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Hitch HQ

Two Forgotten Aspects to an API Design First Approach

How APIs are Being Used to Disrupt the Shipping and Logistics Sector

7 min readMar 8, 2017

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Two Forgotten Aspects to an API Design First Approach

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Mark Boyd

GraphQL For Good

A look at how GraphQL is being taken up amongst cities, governments, and social entrepreneurs

5 min readMar 8, 2017

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GraphQL For Good

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Mark Boyd
in
Hitch HQ

Managing API Adoption in a Complex, Full Value Chain IoT Market

How does an API-as-a-product provider manage developer relations when the whole value chain needs to be educated about how to gain value…

5 min readMar 1, 2017

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Managing API Adoption in a Complex, Full Value Chain IoT Market

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Mark Boyd
in
Hitch HQ

Measuring the Customer Value of your API

An API is useless without a customer base. Your API customers may be internal developers, selected partners or external users, what matters…

5 min readFeb 15, 2017

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Measuring the Customer Value of your API

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Mark Boyd
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Hitch HQ

Leveraging API Documentation for Customer Support

Treating your API as a product means treating customer support as a first class citizen.

6 min readFeb 8, 2017

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Leveraging API Documentation for Customer Support

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Mark Boyd
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Hitch HQ

Building a Viable API IoT Business in an Immature Market

For Internet of Things project deployments to be successful, solution providers need to be really clear about their product-market fit. The…

5 min readFeb 1, 2017

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Building a Viable API IoT Business in an Immature Market

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Mark Boyd
in
Hitch HQ

Lessons from Building Dev Communities Around Parking IoT APIs

Parking optimisation with sensors and APIs is one of the clearest use cases for industrial and smart city IoT implementation.

4 min readJan 25, 2017

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Lessons from Building Dev Communities Around Parking IoT APIs

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Mark Boyd

Mark Boyd

I’m a writer/analyst focusing on how technology, business, community agencies and cities can develop a new economy where we are all co-creators

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