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Buzzed (Twitter is dead)

by gmosx, at 13 Feb 2010
OK, I am sold, Google's social stream app just rocks! The Internet is ..buzzing with rave reviews and really what is there not to like: no lame 160 char limitation, in-line media support, integration with GMail, recommendation and filtering algorithms, auto discovery of the social graph, etc. All packaged with an intuitive user interface.

But the real benefit is the use of Open Standards. New York Times nailed this perfectly:

Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called Atom, Activity Streams, MediaRSS and PubSubHubbub. That couldn't be more different from Facebook. Google has taken open data standards to battle against a marketplace of competitors that are closed and proprietary to varying degrees. This is a very big deal.

Compare this to Facebook's closed garden and Twitter's ad-hoc (and badly designed/integrated) APIs. Just reuse your ATOM parser, leverage Pubsubhubbub's webhook model and you are off. You can find out the details in the following video:


This is a service with great potential.

3 Comments

by George Moschovitis, at 13 Feb 2010
Too bad it's also a productivity killer. I really have to keep the GMail tab closed now!
by George Moschovitis, at 13 Feb 2010
As a proof of concept I integrated buzz with this blog, checkout the buzz-bar in this blog's homepage...
by Elias Athanasopoulos, at 18 Feb 2010
Is pubsubhubbub an open standard? I thought it was a spelling challenge! ;-)

Enjoy,
Elias