I’ve been reading the Google Data APIs blog for a few months and have been impressed at how Google has been quietly executing on the plan of having a single uniform RESTful Web service interface to their various services. Contrast this with the API efforts on Yahoo! Developer Network or Windows Live Dev which are an inconsistent glop of incompatible RESTful protocols, SOAP APIs and XML-RPC methods all under the same roof. In the Google case, an app that can read and write data to Blogger can also do so to Google Calendar or Picasa Web Albums with minimal changes. This is not the case when using APIs provided by 2 Yahoo! services (e.g. Flickr and del.icio.us) or 2 Windows Live services (e.g. Live Search and Windows Live Spaces) which use completely different protocols, object models and authentication mechanisms even though provided by the same vendor.
Month: May 2007
Plate of the Day
nyc food blog posts, mapped
Terragen
The images in this gallery were rendered with Terragen 2 by ourselves and our alpha testers
very pretty
Nina, Software Engineer
London 2071
very neat. due to climate change, berlin will have a north african climate. this map relocates the capitals to their new climate zones
TransHab
Adams designed the TransHab, an inflatable housing module that connects to the International Space Station. Her work shows how architects can successfully “interface people with… interiors in space” – with strong design implications for building interiors here on Earth
YouTube Parliament
Today, we have a crisis of government because of 4 video clips published on YouTube.
is yt the new disinfectant?
Where 2.0 and the Origins of Virtual Earth
Virtual Earth i would check it out if their installer were not completely borked, leading me to suspect no one in the real world actually uses this
Potluck
the next marvel from the simile project. makes data munging almost bearable. uses google maps for good measure, of course.
Congolese sapeurs
in a similar study, poor people are not behaving fully rational, wasting money on religious frippery and booze. not really surprising though
Gregor J. Rothfuss 