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The gravitational pull of Google, Facebook, and Twitter is just too big. If you're a business and not creating content on those sites these days you aren't get

by Yhippa 13y ago

The gravitational pull of Google, Facebook, and Twitter is just too big. If you're a business and not creating content on those sites these days you aren't getting noticed. So you cater all of your activities towards their locked-in APIs and you don't have resources to maintain an RSS feed nobody uses. As long as content continues to be centralized in those three companies interop is toast.

paranoiacblack 13y ago
> locked-in APIs > interop is toast Between your post and the author's, I feel like we're talking past each about what the above two phrases mean. First of all, what do you call a "locked-in API"? I would imagine it'd be an API written in a proprietary language or only works on certain systems or browsers. Personally, I haven't seen that from any of the mentioned companies. Afaik, most of Google's, Facebook's, and Twitter's API work on any browser available, any computer that can run those browsers, including mini-computers and smartphones, even some dumb phones. Where's the lock-in? The fact that you put your data in their databases? The fact that there isn't a single format shared between each? About interoperability being "toast," to what extent? I could probably point you to a large amount of websites and web services that have integration with Google, Facebook, and Twitter, sometimes all at the same time. Sounds like that they can operate together to me. Perhaps, you want them to provide integration between each other?
- epsylon 13y ago
  Interoperability == open standard. If Facebook or Google provides an API that's not an open standard, you're locked-in because the day they decide to remove the API, or to charge high prices, or deprecate a crucial feature, you can't switch easily to another platform.
wyclif 13y ago
Does maintaining an RSS feed require a lot of resources? I suppose it depends on what you're talking about specifically. Once you set up RSS it doesn't require much at all to maintain.

by Yhippa 13y ago

paranoiacblack 13y ago

> locked-in APIs > interop is toast Between your post and the author's, I feel like we're talking past each about what the above two phrases mean. First of all, what do you call a "locked-in API"? I would imagine it'd be an API written in a proprietary language or only works on certain systems or browsers. Personally, I haven't seen that from any of the mentioned companies. Afaik, most of Google's, Facebook's, and Twitter's API work on any browser available, any computer that can run those browsers, including mini-computers and smartphones, even some dumb phones. Where's the lock-in? The fact that you put your data in their databases? The fact that there isn't a single format shared between each? About interoperability being "toast," to what extent? I could probably point you to a large amount of websites and web services that have integration with Google, Facebook, and Twitter, sometimes all at the same time. Sounds like that they can operate together to me. Perhaps, you want them to provide integration between each other?

epsylon 13y ago
Interoperability == open standard. If Facebook or Google provides an API that's not an open standard, you're locked-in because the day they decide to remove the API, or to charge high prices, or deprecate a crucial feature, you can't switch easily to another platform.

wyclif 13y ago

Does maintaining an RSS feed require a lot of resources? I suppose it depends on what you're talking about specifically. Once you set up RSS it doesn't require much at all to maintain.