At Google’s Drive hackathon, trying to wrap my head around what Drive is… and what can I do with it.
Drive
- Prima facie, seems Drive means 3rd party apps (content handlers, eg editors) for documents in Google Docs, for existing and new content types.
- So there’s a RESTful API for external apps, and rudimentary integration into (what used to be) Docs’s UI, and Chrome’s (and Android’s?) Web stores — soon to be consolidated into Google Play. Phew!
Hackathon
- Google brought us inspiring mentors: Nicolas Garnier, Nick Butcher, Rich Hyndman,…
Projects
- Booktrunk
- DriveFreezer: scrape everything that’s starred and exportable to HTML and create a static site.
- DrivePress: publish (sync?) documents to WordPress blogs.
- FaceWiki: scrape FB groups threads into documents.
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DrivePress
- Add to the Docs menu a “publish” operation using Apps Script?
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