Available API’s

• Translate
• Language detection
• Feeds
• Search
• etc.

Adding customer search to your page… (example code)

…not just JavaScript

• REST, JSON
• Examples in flash, php, Java

HTTP? (Layer)

URL, client requests to server …

Gives floor to Eric to talk about Google Data API’s…

• HTTP, RESTful, Etags, Oauth (Get / Post / Put / Delete (e.g., CRUD)
• Atom pulishing protocol (XML), JSON, etc.
• Extends the APP

Has a good feature comparison to Google Data, Atom, RSS 2.0 (TO DO: find online)

Example Request: fetching data …

What can I build?

• Search / Discovery API’s
• Admin / Data Management API’s
• Content Creation /Publishing API’s
• Apps / Office Productivity API’s

There is about 20+ data api’s and counting that uses the Google API’s …

New ones will use these api’s as well …

Wide variety of services (Calender, email, video, pictures, etc…) to mash up ….

dataliberation.org (its your data that you can access anytime and do whatever you want with it)

Authorization

• Its difficult
• Let’s Gogle do it
• Authorization not authentication

Oauth

• Similar to AuthSub
• Web OR Desktop
• Open standard (Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, etc use it)

Demos …

iGoogle with gadgets on it …

First oen talks to Blogger API … Oauth approval page … gadget refreshes itself … can pick a blog to post two when logged in, enter in title and content and publish. Shows it published. Made a write using JavaScript. This is a READ/WRITE JS Library.

• Handles details of laoding data from google, supports read/write, js-client….

Shows code on the Blogger Gadget demo (creating demo)

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Demo: Cloudie

3^rd party developer

Wrapped a number of Google API’s …

A virtual desktop on the AppEngine, storing docs, contacts, calender, etc in Google docs, etc …

Stores configuration in a GoogleDoc ….

Uses GoogleDocs as the storage platform ….

docs.cloudie.org