Open Media Profile
Anil Dash: With the launch of Vox, bloggers have wanted to include data from all their other services, like Flickr, YouTube, iFilm, PhotoBucket, and many more. But it doesn’t make sense to reinvent the wheel or create a proprietary API for this feature. It should just be present for any service that wants to make use of it.
To solve the problem, we’ve created the Open Media Profile. It’s based on the Amazon A9 team’s work in leading the OpenSearch community, along with Yahoo’s work in leading the Media RSS community, and Google’s work in creating the GData set of APIs. While we’re proud to integrate all these technologies, we should point out how much we’re not inventing. In many ways, this is a mash-up of many of the most popular APIs on the web.