[mashup-dev] (Half) summary on Google Developer Day - Mashup track

[Thilina Gunarathne]

Hi Ajith,
We are glad that you were able to participate in the event, which gave us the excellent opportunity to update ourselves with the great information captured by you...

> 1. Based primarily on Atom!
>   Atom has something called the Atom publishing API [1] and that is
> what all Data APIs implement.
FYI: We wrote a Apache Abdera based APP(Atom Publishing Protocol) client host object for the Mashup environment. We were able to use it successfully with blogger..

> 2. They do have url based mechanisms for controlling concurrency and
> they also have a simpler (meaning easy to use) authentication model.
Well, this was the hardest part of our above mentioned exercise ;-)..

> Once you've built the mashup they allow you to publish it as a
> xxx.googlemashups.com (xxx replace with your name of course) or export
> it as a gadget.
Exporting it as a gadget will be a real good feature.. I'm just wondering how they dealt with the different sizes of screen real state in the two cases (800*600 browser to small gadget)..

Thanks,
Thilina