Google Base and the rest of the world
So if I was pitching an article to John Markoff - I’d tell him that Google Base represents a new era of blogging, a new level of personal publishing - just like podcasting, vlogging and mohblogging also push teh envelope.
If you’re Mark Pincus - you’re kind of pissed off - cause Google Base was exactly whta he was trying to do at Tribe.net.
If you’re Tantek Celik and the microformats.org folks - you’re comparing closed to open.
And if you’re Yahoo - you’re thinking: “God bless Y! 360 and our new approach to being open.”
And if you’re Salim Ismail or myself - you’re thinking: “wow - more stuff for Structured Blogging to support.”
I say ‘welcome Google’ = lets ALL work together to make structured content, microcontent -= whatever you wannacall it - happen.
November 26th, 2005 at 3:47 am
I’ve been playing with Base in the last couple of days. There’s the usual gotchas.
- US-Centric location format
- Their top level categories are a form of cultural imperialism. I think we’ll all end up having to include them in our systems.
But mainly, it looks like it’s going to be another ping service where we all dump our entire content (blogs, meetings, listings) into Google Base as well as displaying them within our own service. So for instance, Tribes and Ecademy should probably copy all their listings into Base. It’s good that they support RSS and Atom as transfer formats but with Google specific extensions that are category specific. And FTPing a bulk file is a pretty old fashioned API. Can’t they just subscribe to my RSS?
July 21st, 2006 at 12:57 am
thank you for your work