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It's no different than any other content provider. It's not going to change ****. Sure, people may give it a shot and many will no doubt produce quality sites around it or by integrating it. But many, many more will slap it in and leave it to rot, just like discussion forums, blogs, other CMS's, news feeds, Spamsense, blah blah blah.
It's a marketing move by Alexa to plus sell their bog standard data offerings - top sites, movers and shakers, etc, in an effort to try and raise their pretty low reputation in the webmaster community.
People don't stop going to Starbucks just because McDonalds offer coffee (or their local cafe, or their local shop, etc). People go with what they are used to or what is convienent.
I will admit that there's no doubt that a handful of sites that will make good use of this API and that will in turn help raise the Alexa name within the webmaster community, but it's by no means a Google killer, and IMO will just lead to a crap load of low quality sites messing around with trying to find a quick way to create content / features for their site.
Adsense 2.0!
Feel free to convince me otherwise but the examples they list of the site are at best very niche and will in no way offer any appeal to a mass market. If you are in beta then perhaps you can give some examples that may actually be useful on a larger scale?
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