Here at Yah we’ve all become quite interested in mashups and quite disappointed at the lack of open API’s in China (or the lack of quality APIs). With the number of open APIs in the US on the rise, I’ve been wondering when China will follow suit and it may bet that Taobao might be the ones to start the trend.

Taobao, an online shopping site, announced their plans to open an API in the latest issue of CEO & CIO online magazine in an effort to increase traffic to their site. Let’s hope that the opening of their API will encourage other large internet companies to follow.

[via: China Web2.0 Review]