Welcome J-Landers to Blogger!

It's sad to see my old product, AOL Journals, being shut down; but it's great to welcome AOL Journals users who want to move to Blogger. I just finished importing my old AOL Journal into http://abstractioneer-archive.blogspot.com. 196 posts, that's, um, a lot more posting than I'm doing these days. Must... post... more...

The import process was very smooth. Kudos to JJ who implemented the import feature and worked to make the Journals import process easy.

(The import process of course uses Atom behind the scenes for full data fidelity, and OpenID to verify ownership of the original content.)

A modest proposal: RESTful OpenSocial API

Yesterday, I sent a draft proposal for a RESTful API out for comment. It pulls together a lot of the things I've been working on lately: OAuth, batching, and patching. It also has a different take on JSON vs. Atom data formats. Since OpenSocial has several different kinds of data -- activities, people, and app data to start with -- a one-size-fits-all format is likely to be a poor fit for everybody. So, there's a custom mapping, expressed through metadata, that can be different for each kind of data you deal with.