Open Media Profile
Anil Dash: With the launch of Vox, bloggers have wanted to include data from all their other services, like Flickr, YouTube, iFilm, PhotoBucket, and many more. But it doesn’t make sense to reinvent the wheel or create a proprietary API for this feature. It should just be present for any service that wants to make use of it.
To solve the problem, we’ve created the Open Media Profile. It’s based on the Amazon A9 team’s work in leading the OpenSearch community, along with Yahoo’s work in leading the Media RSS community, and Google’s work in creating the GData set of APIs. While we’re proud to integrate all these technologies, we should point out how much we’re not inventing. In many ways, this is a mash-up of many of the most popular APIs on the web.
Vox and OpenSearch
Vox, the coolest blogging/social network release of the year, is also one of the OpenSearch friendliest. Byrne Reese, platform hacker extraordinaire over at Six Apart has posted a detailed article on how Vox is using OpenSearch as part of its...Excerpt from DeWitt Clinton at
The Future of the Web and Useless APIs
Tim O’Reilly says 'Data is the next Intel-Inside for Web 2.0. This novel insight is now apparently driving the creation of new XML vocabularies like the Open Media Profile. The obvious question would be to ask when, if ever, data hasn’t been the...Excerpt from discipline and punish at
I tried out some of this stuff from the user’s perspective yesterday with my Vox blog, and I must say that it’s very slick. It took me less than a minute to search for a video on YouTube (from within Vox, of course) and post it to my blog. More openness and cooperation like this is going to be a huge benefit to web apps everywhere.
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And since you’ll undoubtedly be among the first to notice, our docs are slightly out of sync with what’s going on in the service itself. We’ll be updating both shortly and posting more details on how the profile works.
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