Google APIs in Ajax applications: Where and When
The Ajax Experience
San Francisco · May 10 - 12, 2006
About this Presentation
Space and Time are 2 important dimensions along which you can organize the world information. Google provides APIs to help deal with both: Google Maps and Google Calendar. The Google Maps API has been around for a year and defined how services could be exposed as javascript components for Mashup type Ajax applications. In april Google shipped Google Maps API v2, with API and stability enhancements, new features and better
customizability.
This talk will present the changes in Google Maps v2. The Google Calendar data API is based upon a common API model called GData. The GData model uses REST principles and Atom or RSS 2.0 syndicated feeds as the base resource model to expose data held by Google services (like Google Calendar). This talk will present GData and the Google Calendar data API, as well as a sample use in GreaseMonkey.
Google API Evangelist
These days Patrick's main interests are Google AdWords, Google APIs, REST and SOAP, Javascript, Ruby and Ajax. Previously he's bee working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He's the co-founder of ROME - Atom and RSS utilities in java, an open source library designed to make writing syndication applications in java easier.
More on his blog at http://blog.chanezon.com/