Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/03/build-collaborative-apps-with-google.html

by davidjgraph • 13 years ago

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andyl2• 13 years ago

Google for realtime? How long before they cancel it? No way I'd rely on Google for realtime when there's meteor/node/faye/etc/etc.

kenoh• 13 years ago

I absolutely love that people aren't just forgetting about Reader.

Laremere• 13 years ago

It's precedent that Google is willing to take down a popular service in order to push other goals.

jamesaguilar3• 13 years ago

To say that people aren't forgetting reader would be calling the game in the first inning. It isn't even actually shut down yet. Check back in a year when everyone has switched to other news readers and the world hasn't ended.

pekk2• 13 years ago

I'm under the impression that Google Drive is a money-making enterprise. Reader was not. In light of that, my question wouldn't be whether this will be canceled, but would be how much you will pay for depending on access to this API when they decide to rationalize the rates.

onemorepassword• 13 years ago

Given how little effort Google puts into updating, bugfixing or providing any kind of support to those paying for Drive, I seriously doubt this is a money-making enterprise.

Drive hasn't really evolved since it was launched almost a year ago when everyone suspected it may be Google's long awaited DropBox-killer.

azov• 13 years ago

Apparently just being "money-making" is not enough, it has to have an enormous userbase and also be aligned with Google's strategy du jour.

capo• 13 years ago

Careful, you might mistakenly be accused of being an "astroturfer": https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andyl

andyl2• 13 years ago

No - I have absolutely nothing to be careful of. I'm not a secret front for an anti-Google marketing campaign. I'm just a dude who values the OpenWeb, and I believe that Google's actions w.r.t. Reader have damaged RSS. I don't like it, and I don't trust Google's motives.

Now - who are you, and who made you the speech police? Why are you advocating on behalf of Google, and why are you bringing ad-homenim attacks against me and others who question Google's products and business practices?

hyp-o-crite: one who accuse others of astroturfing while concealing his/her own identity behind an anonymous userid.

apricot13• 13 years ago

So basically, they realised how handy google waves collaborative features were and now their bringing them back!

pekk2• 13 years ago

This is a common pattern for Google - they have many times 'killed' a product while folding its key features into another product.

snewman• 13 years ago

This is very likely derived from Google Docs, not Wave. The spreadsheet app has been based on this approach (immediate synchronization via operation transforms) since way back, and the document and presentation apps were rewritten to the same approach a few years ago. It sounds like they're now simply opening up that backend for third parties... which is pretty cool, actually.

(Background: I worked on Writely, the original Docs word processor. I wasn't involved in the work described here, but saw some of it happening. It's nice stuff.)

eik3_de• 13 years ago

Wait, they host their examples on GitHub? I thought Googlers were supposed to dogfood Google Code?

camus• 13 years ago

well , maybe they are going to drop google code soon , you know it is not "money making" enough...

rayk• 13 years ago

For anyone looking for an open source alternative to this: http://sharejs.org/

Similar to the Realtime API but without Google or the social integrations.

habosa• 13 years ago

Wow this is awesome. My long-planned side project for the summer was to build Operational Transform as an API, but it seems Google has beat me to the punch. I'm glad to see it's them doing it though, as they know OT better than anyone else in the world and I won't have to entertain the idea that I could have done it better.

goronbjorn• 13 years ago

Is this basically what firebase.com does?

indubitably• 13 years ago

I trust Google like I trust a viper in bed.

Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API

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