Announcing Google Moderator’s API, powering a Wave Extension and Android App
Google Moderator
is used extensively within Google for meetings and to collect feedback from Googlers on events
or happenings within the company. It is also used at conferences and other events to organize
and draw upon the collective wisdom of the participants.
Many users
have asked us for a formal API, and today, we’re excited to announce the
Google Moderator API. You can use
the API to access, update, and participate in Google Moderator from custom interfaces.
Here's a quick look at what you can do with Google Moderator’s API:
- Create: You can create new series, topics, submissions, or votes on
behalf of the currently authenticated user.
- Vote: You can
allow authenticated users to vote on submissions, or to review their own votes on submissions
in a series.
- Discover: You can retrieve topics in a series, or
submissions in a particular topic or series. You can also track the current aggregate status
of votes.
Here are some projects that are using the API today:
Rajiv Bammi whipped up a gadget for Google Wave that will be at Google I/O to
allow attendees to ask questions:
http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/wave.html
Jim
Blackler, a Google software engineer, spent some of his 20% time to build
Google Moderator for Android,
an open source project.
When
Moderator was used by the White House, we used the
Maps API to
plot
on a map where submissions were coming from:
We’re
curious to see what you build, and we’re eager to get your feedback on new features. To get
started, check out the
documentation and join our
Google Group!
By Colby
Ranger, Google Moderator Team
