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February 12, 2007
Lorcan Dempsey has a brilliant post on why Google's moving from a SOAP API to Ajax syndication transforms it from an information landscape into an "information brandscape"™ Amazon, he points out, is happy to let other apps and sites use its product data because the data — a link to a book, a book cover — is by itself and ad. Google wants to get their actual ads into those other sites. Lorcan goes on to apply this distinction to library Web services. (BTW, Lorcan, I slapped the trademark on to "information brandscape" so now it's mine. Bwahaha!) [Tags: google libraries amazon lorcan_dempsey everything_is_miscellaneous web2.0 api soap ajax worldcat] Posted
by D. Weinberger at February 12, 2007 07:01 AM
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Link?
Posted by: Claus | February 12, 2007 08:26 AM
this it?
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001258.html
Posted by: Anonymous | February 12, 2007 01:00 PM
I've added the link to the body of the post. Thanks, anonymous.
Posted by: David Weinberger | February 12, 2007 03:41 PM
I slapped the trademark on to "information brandscape" so now it's mine.
Unlike copyright, claiming trademark protection requires you to actually, you know, engage in trade using the mark.
I don't think blogging about it counts. :)
Posted by: Adam Fields | February 12, 2007 03:44 PM
Adam, I'll give you two dollars if you'll give me one dollar to buy some information brandscape from me.
Posted by: David Weinberger | February 13, 2007 09:49 AM
Yes - i like 'information brandscape'.
Here is another one for you to noodle on:
Techeology: a technology position which owes more to ideology than to engineering.
Posted by: Lorcan Dempsey | February 14, 2007 08:13 PM