Google releases homepage API

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Ahh, this Web Developer War is getting interesting. Google just released a homepage API according to Search Engine Watch’s Gary Price. It’ll be interesting to watch what Live.com does. I’ve seen our API plans and it certainly is going to be a good year next year for developers!

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8 thoughts on “Google releases homepage API”

  1. Interesting to see that so many dev tools Microsoft ships and sells are for the desktop. When everything seems running on the server now…

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  2. Interesting to see that so many dev tools Microsoft ships and sells are for the desktop. When everything seems running on the server now…

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  3. You forget that Google is desperate to get onto the desktop. Gmail downloads a large part of the so-called “web client” onto the desktop in order to make it run faster. Gmail is really a webtop app as are so many of the Ajax Web apps. Also Google has other products trying to access the desktop Sidebar, desktop search etc.

    As for dev tools does Google or Yahoo make dev tools? Microsoft is more than a one trick pony.

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  4. You forget that Google is desperate to get onto the desktop. Gmail downloads a large part of the so-called “web client” onto the desktop in order to make it run faster. Gmail is really a webtop app as are so many of the Ajax Web apps. Also Google has other products trying to access the desktop Sidebar, desktop search etc.

    As for dev tools does Google or Yahoo make dev tools? Microsoft is more than a one trick pony.

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  5. Sam, you gotta be kidding right?

    Google desktop clients so far have brought 0$ to their bottom line. And most of them are beta, Windows-only, pale copies of the existing competition (better use Copernic to make local search for instance);

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  6. Sam, you gotta be kidding right?

    Google desktop clients so far have brought 0$ to their bottom line. And most of them are beta, Windows-only, pale copies of the existing competition (better use Copernic to make local search for instance);

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  7. So far, I’ve used the google homepage API to build modules that show me live video from my home security system, the day’s events from three Google calendars, monitor logfiles for a web service I manage, and run queries on a database on our LAN at work inside the firewall, each displayed in it’s own screen area on my personal homepage.

    The API couldn’t be simpler to use. The AJAX method is accomplished in a single line of code. Built-in XSLT transformation, xml to html in three lines. Nifty little _gel() wrapper for the get_element_by_id() function. The API handles all the cross-browser support issues for you. I like it!

    What’s Microsoft got? (I mean, that I can play with now)

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  8. So far, I’ve used the google homepage API to build modules that show me live video from my home security system, the day’s events from three Google calendars, monitor logfiles for a web service I manage, and run queries on a database on our LAN at work inside the firewall, each displayed in it’s own screen area on my personal homepage.

    The API couldn’t be simpler to use. The AJAX method is accomplished in a single line of code. Built-in XSLT transformation, xml to html in three lines. Nifty little _gel() wrapper for the get_element_by_id() function. The API handles all the cross-browser support issues for you. I like it!

    What’s Microsoft got? (I mean, that I can play with now)

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