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I think you might be reading it incorrectly. G+ was certainly a platform internally but it was never a platform externally. Google has offered no useful APIs fo

by zmmmmm 13y ago

I think you might be reading it incorrectly. G+ was certainly a platform internally but it was never a platform externally. Google has offered no useful APIs for it and has been totally non-commital about ever creating any. Whether this prompts a rethink on that will be interesting to see, but it certainly has set them apart from Twitter and to some extent Facebook who both offered better APIs and benefited a lot from that.

dragonwriter 13y ago
> G+ was certainly a platform internally but it was never a platform externally. It is true that there was a substantial delay before G+ was made a public external platform (there were initially some external, selected partner, integrations), but G+ has been a public external platform for some time. > Google has offered no useful APIs for it "Useful" is subjective, of course, but they offer a fairly extensive set of G+ platform APIs. [1] It's true there isn't a write API for the Facebook-style news feed, but that feed isn't central to G+-the-platform, only to G+-the-product. [1] https://developers.google.com/+/web/ https://developers.google.com/+/web/
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  Where's my access to an RSS/Atom feed of G+ posts? Where's my access to pushing content from another network or platform onto G+? Other than Data Liberation, were's my ability to extract content from G+? It's a fucking silo. Always has been.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Where's my access to an RSS/Atom feed of G+ posts? There's a read API for activities, but its not RSS/Atom. > Where's my access to pushing content from another network or platform onto G+? Push it from the integration app as App Activities using the Moments API. > Other than Data Liberation, were's my ability to extract content from G+? There's read APIs for the various kinds of Google+ content. > It's a fucking silo. Well, except for all the ways to get content in and out of it, sure.
    - dredmorbius 13y ago
      Why not RSS/Atom? I can use that for every other feed I follow. I've looked for push tools and haven't found them. Links on this stuff you're referring to? It's still a fucking silo.

by zmmmmm 13y ago

dragonwriter 13y ago

> G+ was certainly a platform internally but it was never a platform externally. It is true that there was a substantial delay before G+ was made a public external platform (there were initially some external, selected partner, integrations), but G+ has been a public external platform for some time. > Google has offered no useful APIs for it "Useful" is subjective, of course, but they offer a fairly extensive set of G+ platform APIs. [1] It's true there isn't a write API for the Facebook-style news feed, but that feed isn't central to G+-the-platform, only to G+-the-product. [1] https://developers.google.com/+/web/ https://developers.google.com/+/web/

dredmorbius 13y ago
Where's my access to an RSS/Atom feed of G+ posts? Where's my access to pushing content from another network or platform onto G+? Other than Data Liberation, were's my ability to extract content from G+? It's a fucking silo. Always has been.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Where's my access to an RSS/Atom feed of G+ posts? There's a read API for activities, but its not RSS/Atom. > Where's my access to pushing content from another network or platform onto G+? Push it from the integration app as App Activities using the Moments API. > Other than Data Liberation, were's my ability to extract content from G+? There's read APIs for the various kinds of Google+ content. > It's a fucking silo. Well, except for all the ways to get content in and out of it, sure.
  - dredmorbius 13y ago
    Why not RSS/Atom? I can use that for every other feed I follow. I've looked for push tools and haven't found them. Links on this stuff you're referring to? It's still a fucking silo.