Google’s API and “information brandscapes”
February 12th, 2007 by David Weinberger
Lorcan Dempsey has a brilliant post on why Google’s moving from a SOAP API to Ajax syndication transforms it from an information landscape into an “information brandscape”™ Amazon, he points out, is happy to let other apps and sites use its product data because the data — a link to a book, a book cover — is by itself and ad. Google wants to get their actual ads into those other sites. Lorcan goes on to apply this distinction to library Web services.
(BTW, Lorcan, I slapped the trademark on to “information brandscape” so now it’s mine. Bwahaha!) [Tags: google libraries amazon lorcan_dempsey everything_is_miscellaneous web2.0 api soap ajax worldcat]
