[uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

[Ross Singer]

On 4/20/06, Steven Livingstone <connect at stevenr2.com> wrote:
> > it's incorporated into IE7 in ways that I'll never be able to see
> >firsthand
>
> Where are you going?

Er, nowhere.  And although my comment was laced with hyperbole,
"nowhere" includes my home and office, neither of which gives me the
opportunity (or desire) to use a system that supports IE7.

>
> Competition is good, but when your core focus is global data, which can be
> none other than distributed, then quality is surely ~ to quality
> contributors signing up.
>
Competition /can/ be good.  Standardization can /also/ be good.  With
any luck these two interests will be close enough that it will be easy
to develop interfaces for both (and the library world's own SRU
format, as well).

The SRU and OpenSearch communities /just/ managed to meet and discuss
ways the two formats could potentially interoperate.  It would be a
bit of a shame if none of that could transfer to gData, as well.

-Ross.

> Ignoring Microformats, Google have jumped a bunch of protocols based on
> vanilla Xml, if you wish.
>
> Still, if anyone can, Google can - but unlike many previous efforts, the
> whole of the community isn't with them!
>
> steven
> http://stevenR2.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Ross
> Singer
> Sent: 20 April 2006 19:36
> To: Microformats Discuss
> Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!
>
> This seems more to be competition to A9's OpenSearch (which also uses
> RSS and Atom to support queries).
>
> The sad thing is that Microsoft has shown support for OpenSearch (it's
> incorporated into IE7 in ways that I'll never be able to see
> firsthand), hopelessly dividing the world into more competing
> standards.
>
> However, I'll gladly embrace hGOpenDataSearch when, you know, somebody
> else goes through the work of actually making it.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On 4/20/06, Sam Sethi <sam.sethi at vecosys.com> wrote:
> >
> > Chris Messina recently wrote about how Google's new Calendar missed a
> trick
> > by not supporting MF's. Google announced today
> > http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html that they are providing a new
> > syndication protocol called Gdata which is based on Atom and RSS
> syndication
> > specs but it also supports query, authorisation and optimistic concurreny
> > (whatever that might be?)So is this the start of syndication wars.  What
> > will Microsoft comeout with as a response - another format extension?
> >
> > Feature                         GData   Atom*   RSS 2.0
> > Syndication Format      Y               Y               Y
> > Queries                         Y               N               N
> > Updates                         Y               Y               N
> > Optimistic Concurrency  Y               N               N
> > Authentication          Y               N               N
> >
> > * The "Atom" column refers to both the syndication format and the
> > publication protocol.
> >
> > The reason for mentioning it here is because of the work around hAtom
> which
> > might link to this. I know Adam Bosworth has talked at length about an
> Atom
> > Store database (Google)and I was wondering if this is the first step in
> > querying the Atom Store.  Google certainly seem to think so. "GData also
> > lets you send data to Google, and update data that Google already has."
> >
> > Any thoughts ...
> >
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