WTF.
http://code.google.com/apis/base/
It's like from outer space. But unreal.
Chris
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- Google Base data API is more or less the Atom Publishing Protocol.
- This means you can read/write/search
- The GBase data model is just adding key/value pairs to each entry
- Google Base is a store of records/entries with these key/values
- key can come from a predefined list or you can make
On 8/24/06, David Janes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is another data
model Google provides called the GData model which isn't compatible
but allows for deeper structures.
I think that's my big issue... they keep releasing these APIs, which,
on the one hand, is great... And it's good that
On Aug 24, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
However, microformats seem a whole lot easier and a lower barrier to
entry in many respects (though they'd have to get involved in the
community process which may be too slow for them). At the very least,
supporting both microformats and their
Google Base is explicitly trying to do something that Microformats are
not: boil the ocean, or in this particular case, a sea in the ocean.
Google Base silos are basically spreadsheets; each record is a row in
the spreadsheet. How do you model that in Microformats? In fact, the
best/easiest way
