Build collaborative apps with Google Drive Realtime API

by davidjgraph on 3/19/2013, 4:05 PM with 24 comments
  • by habosa on 3/19/2013, 5:13 PM

    Wow this is awesome. My long-planned side project for the summer was to build Operational Transform as an API, but it seems Google has beat me to the punch. I'm glad to see it's them doing it though, as they know OT better than anyone else in the world and I won't have to entertain the idea that I could have done it better.

  • by apricot13 on 3/19/2013, 4:51 PM

    So basically, they realised how handy google waves collaborative features were and now their bringing them back!

  • by rayk on 3/19/2013, 5:00 PM

    For anyone looking for an open source alternative to this: http://sharejs.org/

    Similar to the Realtime API but without Google or the social integrations.

  • by eik3_de on 3/19/2013, 4:53 PM

    Wait, they host their examples on GitHub? I thought Googlers were supposed to dogfood Google Code?

  • by goronbjorn on 3/19/2013, 7:04 PM

    Is this basically what firebase.com does?

  • by indubitably on 3/20/2013, 2:02 AM

    I trust Google like I trust a viper in bed.

  • by andyl on 3/19/2013, 4:49 PM

    Google for realtime? How long before they cancel it? No way I'd rely on Google for realtime when there's meteor/node/faye/etc/etc.