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17 Nov 2005
Google Base comments
And as was expected the comments on Google Base are flowing around. Comments, such as made by TechCrunch on the version, are not really interesting. It is the future that counts here. Many people see the MicroContent part of the service (Bokardo).
There are some MicroContent related comments around. Barb Dybwad calls Google Base Yet Another Walled Data Garden. I agree with that, but I have good hope that they will add RSS-feeds in the future. Windley agrees with me that the structure of the data is the most important thing of Google Base. Michael Bazeley @ SiliconBeat emphasizes the open platform aspect of Google Base. But that will all depend on the API's. There are none at the moment. He also mentions the people profiles type within Google Base. Maybe this can be a place to store your FOAF profile. I'm not sure Google Base should be used for identity and profiles.
The post my Richard McManus made me realise that one can see Google Base also as a MicroContent aggregator. This aggregator can (re-)store any structured MicroContent published on the Web. Their RSS-input feed give the inkling for that. And then Google is the center of a distributed XML database. And if any user has a structured query, they go first to Google Base.
Danny Ayers has nice comments and he has the impression that Google Base can be used to store RDF. And that sounds promising.
I'll add more to this post as I notice it around the BS (blogosphere).