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A tour of the open standards used by Google Buzz
- nzmsv 17y agoCan someone explain what exactly is XRD and what it is useful for? I'm not being sarcastic, just trying to figure this out.
- arebop 17y agoBesides the examples James Clark gives here (e.g., the likes relation on users and items, associating public keys with email addresses [1]), Google gives some examples at their webfinger page [2]: your office hours, your profile page, etc. [1] http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig-00.html http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer... [2] http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
- cmelbye 17y agoGoogle Buzz may have had some privacy issues, but at least they're trying to be more open than Twitter is.
- axod 17y agoXML is mentioned way too much on that page :( Open standards are great, if they don't suck.
- simonw 17y agoTo be fair, the author is the James Clark who wrote expat and designed Relax-NG (a decidedly non-sucky XML schema tool).