Comments on: Google Base and the rest of the world http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/11/google-base-and-the-rest-of-the-world Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: raedleah http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/11/google-base-and-the-rest-of-the-world#comment-64701 raedleah Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:23 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/11/google-base-and-the-rest-of-the-world#comment-64701 thank you for your work thank you for your work

]]> By: Julian Bond http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/11/google-base-and-the-rest-of-the-world#comment-4995 Julian Bond Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:47:26 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/11/google-base-and-the-rest-of-the-world#comment-4995 <a href="http://www.voidstar.com/node.php?id=2616" rel="nofollow">I've been playing with Base in the last couple of days</a>. 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? 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?

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