by Kofi Sarfo
14. June 2010 08:56
So the Google Buzz API has been available for a month and I've added all kinds of value to this example code. Below is a link to all those folks I follow (who have supplied an image):
It's trivial and yields a social graph in four lines of code essentially. Nice! The only thing we needed to consider was the use of response.data.entry instead of response.data.item which became obvious by looking at this JSON showing who I follow on Buzz.
Because most of our data-related time is in XML land immediately we think XSD and find there exists something similar for JSON. JSON Schema! The Address Schema, for example, looks reasonable but we wonder how necessary all those double quotes might be. They seem to be redundant tokens that only reduce readability. Otherwise it's friendly enough.