Google Data » Kael Edward Stahl-Mastropietro https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 New API: It Slices! It Dices! It Uploads Your Docs! https://googledata.org/google-code/new-api-it-slices-it-dices-it-uploads-your-docs/ https://googledata.org/google-code/new-api-it-slices-it-dices-it-uploads-your-docs/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:10:00 +0000 Jeff Fisher, The Google data APIs Team

Well, maybe it can't cut your old tennis shoes in half, but now you can import your spreadsheets and word processor documents into Google Documents using the new Documents List API. Previously, the only way to upload documents was manually through the UI. Now you can create applications to do this programmatically, making it faster and easier to import large numbers of documents. For no extra charge this new feed can also be used to retrieve existing documents by searching the document title, contents, or type.

Naturally, we already have documentation and samples for you to peruse on the Documents List API Developer's Guide. For those wanting a lower level introduction there is also the Reference Guide. A snazzy new API deserves a snazzy new group, so we've reincarnated the Google Spreadsheets data API group as Google Docs Data APIs. This new group is here to handle all your unanswered questions about the Documents List API and the Spreadsheets API.

Many of you requested this new API on our Feature Request page and we are very excited to see the applications you create with it. Please feel free to share your project on our discussion group!
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/new-api-it-slices-it-dices-it-uploads-your-docs/feed/ 0 Reflections on XTech https://googledata.org/google-code/reflections-on-xtech/ https://googledata.org/google-code/reflections-on-xtech/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:56:00 +0000 I recently participated in XTech 2007: a conference for those working with web and standards-based technologies. I've had some time to ruminate on the experience and I thought I'd share some ideas which rose to the top as I submerged myself in the deluge of information and interactions.

I attended a talk on OpenStreetMap, which looks like a very interesting solution to creating and annotating detailed maps. I find their list of public GPS traces particularly interesting. There was one problem that Steven Coast brought up which stuck with me, and that is inconsistencies in tagging. OpenStreepMap allows users to tag locations with anything they like, this simplicity and flexibility can lead to rich information, but can also lead to confusion when different people use the same tags for different things, or use different tags to describe the same thing. It's a difficult problem to deal with, and we've tried to tackle this in Google Base by providing an attributes feed. The attributes feed is a dynamic and searchable list of the tags, or attributes, that people are using when describing items of a particular type. I think it certainly helps with the problem of recommending annotations, but we're working to make it better.

I was also pleased to see several discussions centering on XMPP (the protocol used by Jabber, Google Talk, and other instant messaging clients), and I was surprised to see some of the applications people were building on top of this technology. A few years ago, I built a small application which used XMPP to dynamically edit a web page, and it seems others were thinking up even grander schemes. Twitter makes use of XMPP, and I saw a great demo by Massimiliano Mirra which showed how XMPP could be used as a programmatic communication channel to make single user applications into collaborative ones.

There were many other interesting presentations, people, and ideas at XTech this year, but I've rambled enough. Check out the XTech's website for more information on talks you may have missed, and keep an eye out for details on next year's conference.

Jeff Scudder - The Google data APIs team
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/reflections-on-xtech/feed/ 0 Salesforce SOA Integration with Google data APIs https://googledata.org/google-code/salesforce-soa-integration-with-google-data-apis/ https://googledata.org/google-code/salesforce-soa-integration-with-google-data-apis/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:18:00 +0000 Salesforce.com recently announced the AJAX Proxy feature for Salesforce SOA. This feature, scheduled for availability in early July, avoids the cross-domain issues normally associated with communicating with external web services using client-side JavaScript.

We're really excited by this, as it will enable Salesforce applications to communicate with all of our Google data APIs directly from the browser. Salesforce released an in-depth article on the topic: Building a Google Calendar Mash-up with Salesforce SOA . This tutorial guides the reader through the process of performing many of the common Calendar data API operations, including:

  • Authenticating via AuthSub
  • Listing the user's calendars
  • Inserting events
  • Deleting events

This isn't the first we've heard about integrating Salesforce.com applications with Google data APIs. Charlie Wood, of Spanning Partners , talked about his experiences working with the Calendar data API and plans for synchronizing Salesforce.com and Google Calendar during his presentation at Dreamforce last year. His company has already developed Spanning Salesforce to enable the retrieval of RSS feeds of Salesforce.com data.

We look forward to hearing about the mashups you create using this new capability on the Salesforce.com platform. I encourage you to share them with the community using the new pages we created on each of the Google data API developer forums. You can also use these pages to share your own articles and tutorials.

Happy coding!

Ryan Boyd - The Google data APIs team

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