Friday, December 7, 2007

Finageling the Google API

I have been managing my own website now for about 5 years. Recently I realized that more and more of my photos and blogs were going up on third party websites (aka - Google). So i thought....hmmm...I wonder if google is exposing any web services? Well....they are! A whole bunch of them. So after a couple of weeks of Finageling and learning I set out to recreate my website using googles exposed web services and API's. So.... Vuola! This sight is completely run by google! I bet your wondering what this saves me...well: I no longer have to administer MY site, I can host my site on a smaller server and just administer the site via google, all my data and photos are safely secured in the hands of google, and because the site data and photos are not contained on my site i no longer have to pay my yearly $100 - $150 dollars for webspace(Now, more like $20)...hehe! So...Yaye for me!

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