We should nail down the JSON ActivityStrea.ms format. I have heard several developers request this. Here is the draft http://martin.atkins.me.uk/specs/activitystreams/jsonactivity
MySpace implemented as an Opensocial extension for the REST endpoint and it definitely is more popular than the xml version afaik http://developerwiki.myspace.com/index.php?title=OpenSocial_v0.9_Activities#Activity_Streams_Sample_JSON Brad/Rest do you see any issues in allowing hubs to syndicate news using json activitystrea.ms ? We could write a (tiny) extension spec for pubsub + activitystrea.ms which covers atom/rss and json On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > What would JSON provide other than syntactic preference? > > The responses would be smaller, so transmit more quickly and be parsed > more quickly/simply. Speed of publication is one of the prime reasons > PuSH exists, after all. > > It also lowers the barrier to integrating PuSH with Node.js and even > in-browser AJAX use. > > I'm not demanding it be included or anything, I recognize features > means more complexity means more work, but there are valid reasons. > > -- Eric > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Wei Zhu (Facebook) < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to know what the current status is in terms of supporting > >> JSON as a response format in Pubsubhubbub spec. I had heard there was > >> some talk about adding this support in the spec and would love to see > >> it happen. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Wei > > > > >
