broadcast state stay of execution?

[Alex Chaffee]

New unofficial news from inside Google. If I interpret this correctly, it looks like the "broadcast state" will *not* be going away... maybe. This is a pretty important feature, since marking an item as "broadcast" (i.e. shared) retains all the original author and source feed info; the "note" (if any) gets added as metadata. In the current Lipsumarium system it's reversed: the feed makes it look like the source feed was "Joe's Shares" and the author was "Joe" and if we add a note it'll be... well, I don't know where it'll be.

From https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fougrapi/sKclYEY7XsY/XmszyOE5EKoJ

> > 

> > "Basically anything to do with sharing (broadcast tag), liking or friends is going away. 

> > The API calls will still succeed even after the social features are gone from our UI, 

> > but eventually write requests will start to fail (at the same time as Google Buzz going 

> > read-only)."

>

> Things have changed a little bit since then, write requests will most likely

> still work. However, there may be a period of instability for a few days after

> Buzz goes read-only. Sorry to be vague, but schedules/code is still up in the

> air. I'll give an update once I know better what will happen.

> 

> Mihai

[Emmanuel Pire]

Sounds good but I can't believe google will continue to support an api that does something that can steer people away from G+.  

Or they publicly bring the feature back or I don't buy it. Why would they do that ?

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