On Monday, October 17, 2011 7:26:21 AM UTC+2, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > Facebook has completely turned around and not only was the first version of > their API's fairly exhaustive, their latest foray into this domain (called > "Open Graph") is extraordinarily deep and promising. It's surprising that > not more noise has been made about it because I think it's going to take > social to a level that we haven't seen so far, maybe even to the point of > smothering it completely, because more and more gestures are going to be > generated by code and no longer by humans, which has been Facebook's value > so far. > > True, but, I don't know, and I don't think Steve Yegge knows, what the Google+ team is planning to do. I'd say that launching your project with a full API in place is a big mistake: You spent a lot of time on that API (or if you didn't, it would suck), so that's less time you're iterating with user feedback. Also, if you want to make big changes to the product based on feedback, now you also have to worry about pissing off developers who invested in that API and which you now either have to keep backwards compatible at great cost, or you have to break compatibility and bother all those programmers.
If team G+ just doesn't really care about API or has no set plans to build it, that would be bad, but, if their plan is to first iterate G+ for a bit and then, once things settle down, write an API for it, I'd say that's exactly how it should be done. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/35eqDYA0vmUJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
