Saturday, May 17, 2003

The Tragedy of the API The Tragedy of the API Link via [Scripting News] To Summarize: We would love if there were one universal API for blogging tools. It's clear why this would benefit everyone. Our edict at Google is to help the blogging industry. Raise all boats. And, as I've said before, we're not interested in doing more work for the fun of it. To create a second blogging API when there was only one widely supported one and then blame us for there not being only one blogging API seems a little strange, don't you think? A big reason people think the MetaWeblog API is more open and non-proprietary than the Blogger API is because of its name. It was designed by Dave Winer, and the spec lives on Userland's servers, just as the Blogger API was designed by me and Steve and lives on Google's servers. The only way there will be a universal blogging API is if everyone who needs to has input and sign-off on it, and it cannot be controlled by any one vendor. I perhaps now understand the need for standards bodies more than I ever have before—even though the term gives me willies. [EVHEAD] 7:04:18 PM  comment []       Google is getting a lot of pressure from its advertisers to devalue webloggers Scoble: "Google is getting a lot of pressure from its advertisers to devalue webloggers." Must-read. [Scripting News] 4:08:31 PM  comment []       Skyscrapers in Blogland Lets face it, Blogland is as flat as LA and sprawls like it too.  Hotspots, quiet neighborhoods, noisy industrial areas, linked together by freeways and byways.   ... [Don Park's Blog] 3:45:30 PM  comment []

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