Presentation: "Google GData: reading and writing data on the web"
Time: Wednesday 14:30 - 15:30
Location: Fleming Room
The Google Data API provides programmatic access to a variety of Google assets, including Calendar, Blogger, Picasa, CodeSearch, and Google Base. Composed of a simple query language and the Atom Publishing protocol (IETF draft), it provides search, read, and update capabilities.
An active developer community at code.google.com created Google GData client libraries for many languages. This talk reviews the motivation and lessons learned behind creating a universal API to be used over the Web.