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Google eats its own dogfood with GData

Google's GData was released a few months ago and at the time I asked: Why is Google extending RSS? O'Reilly's Nat Torkington went to lunch with Google's Chris DiBona and Mark Lukovsky and got to the bottom of that question. Over spicy noodles or whatever was on the menu they...

Tags: GData

Blog posts 2006-07-16

GData - Google's new syndication protocol

GData - Google's new syndication protocolCan you say...Embrace and Extend?

Tags: syndication protocol, GData, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-24

Why Google is extending RSS

Jeff Jarvis picked up on my post the other day about GData, Is GData knocking down Google's walled gardens, or enabling a new kind of portal? Google's new syndication protocol which is an extension of both RSS and Atom. Like most people, Jeff isn't sure what this means - and...

Tags: Google Inc., GData

Blog posts 2006-04-21

GData - Google's new syndication protocol

Google data APIs ("GData" for short) is a new Google protocol for "reading and writing data on the web". It's described here: "GData combines common XML-based syndication formats Atom and RSS with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom publishing protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries." So GData is...

Tags: GData

Blog posts 2006-04-20

Additional Resources

Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kit

Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kitAre hackers just a little evil or---do they use bazookas too---RE: Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kitHow about telling us WHICH 6 of the 37 AVs could identify this junk? And the "product marketing materials" indicate that they can exploit even...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Chrismas, Christmas-themed web malware exploitation kit, Christmas-themed, exploitation kit, web malware exploitation kit, cybercriminal, computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

GData 1.5 (Mac)

The Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library provides a Mac OS X framework and source code that make it easy to access data through Google Data APIs. Each of the following Google services provides a Google data API: Google Base Blogger Calendar Code Search Contacts Documents List Notebook Picasa Web...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-23

Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud

On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service

Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" PaaS with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...

Tags: Innovation, Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Integration, Bungee Labs, WideLens, Demonstration Video, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Google launches universal email migration API

A few weeks ago Google announced IMAP support, allowing adminstrators to move external email system to Google Apps, and today extended the invitation to any email system with the Google Apps Email Migration API, which is based on Gdata. Third parties are using the API to build migration tools, such...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, API, Migration, E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Google's new mantra: Making the Web a better platform for all

"In the next year we will make a series of announcements and spend hundreds of millions on innovations and giving them away as open source," said Vic Gundotra, the new head of Google's developer programs. Google believes that innovation on the Web has been lacking. XML...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Idea, Goal, Microsoft Corp., Vic Gundotra, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Microsoft needs REST

Apparently, Microsoft is diverging from the rest of the Web 2.0 world on how to approach integration and mashups. REST Representational State Transition is an architectural style that is transforming how systems integrate together, but it isn't a standard. The ATOM Publishing Protocol APP is and is a popular, RESTful...

Tags: Web 2.0, REST, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2007-06-19

REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services

There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors support content services through the myriad of web services support layers that have been developed over the last decade? Or should...

Tags: Architecture, Enterprise Content Management, Information Management, REST, SOA, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-25

What is Google's Open Source end game?

May 31 is Google Developer Day, Google proudly announces. Why?At Google, we want to help developers build better web applications. Thats why we’ve created APIs and tools to quickly enhance those applications, integrate with Google products and reach millions of users.Whether you’re writing an AJAX application with the Google Web...

Tags: Google Software Applications, Google, Google Apps

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Google announces Developer Day in ten cities around the world

I received an invitation from Google in the mail today. No, not for an interview, but for a new event they are sponsoring called "Google Developer Day". It will be held simultaneously in 10 cities around the globe. Heres a copy:In recent months, many of us on Googles developer teams...

Tags: Community, AJAX, Programming, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Google Spreadsheets API now available

Google Spreadsheets is the newest application to use a GData API -- a library that allows programs to use Google products outside of the Google environment. Philipp explains that you cannot use the API to create or delete spreadsheets yet, but you can do pretty much anything else you...

Tags: Google Docs, API, Google Spreadsheets, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Podcast Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, today I interviewed two distinguished people from Sun Microsystems - Tim Bray Director of Web Technologies and Radia Perlman Distinguished Engineer. Here is the podcast interview [37 mins, 17MB]. Both have been in the computing business a long time...

Tags: Web

Blog posts 2006-08-09

Will or could RSS get forked?

Last year, Microsoft came out with an extension to RSS called Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Microsoft wisely published the extension under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons license -- the same license under which RSS is freely usable. Back in November 2005, Dave Winer, who is widely...

Tags: Buy.com, RSS

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Google Calendar beta

The Google Calendar beta is a straightforward, dynamic online appointment book that can keep you up-to-date with your own private schedule as well as those from other users and public events. The advantages of Google Calendar beta over the industry-leading Yahoo Calendar are its open architecture, RSS support, and integration...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Google Inc., Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo! Inc., beta

Product reviews 2006-04-24

GData API is now public

The GData API that Google promised was released last night -- and it's quite interesting. It almost resembles what Microsoft tried to do by extending RSS2.0 with SSE. I must admit though, I am not terribly familiar with SSE and would like to hear from you if you...

Tags: API, GData API

Blog posts 2006-04-20