Paul Fremantle: fundamentally the approach we have taken is to build a registry/repository based on REST concepts. And as we looked at the REST space, we kept noticing how close the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is to our needs, so we’ve made that the public remote API to access the repository. Of course, if you are just browsing the registry, you only need a browser - APP is mainly there to support updating resources. Of course, using Atom and APP gives some really nice benefits too - like being able to subscribe a feed of new resources that meet your search criteria.
Anil Dash: We announced Beacon support on both LiveJournal and TypePad as initial launch partners. But we worked really hard with the Facebook team on one really important detail — making sure our implementations are completely opt-in. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this was kind of a no-brainer.
Kudos to 6A on getting the more important “unfixable” detail correct.
Alan Bell: To get the data into the site the documents were opened in OpenOffice.org Writer, then copied to Calc, tidied up manually (merged cells are evil) then imported to Lotus Notes 8 via the built in Symphony spreadsheet (I had been working on some code to import Calc into Notes so this was easy) exported to XML then imported to WordPress. The import file was just over 2Mb in size. ... The main difficulty in importing the data was smartquotes and em dashes that Word had autocorrected.
Ad Hoc, Situated Software at it’s finest. There even are feeds for comments on the comments.