I spent a little time today playing with Google’s Ajax Feed API. Its fine and dandy for doing simple interfaces which don’t require the use of very many feeds. It also doesn’t require anything but Javascript.
However, towards the end of ‘05, there was speculation that a Google Reader API was going to be exposed in the same way they expose their Google Maps API. I’m working on a new aggregator in my spare time (or at least thinking about doing it), but I don’t wanna deal with all of the scalability issues with pulling down all those damned articles. I’ve done that before, and its a pain.
The API that exists now is undocumented and unsupported, I’m just wondering if they are going to get around to it. Its been two years, and I for one am ready for the real thing!
