{"id":6648,"date":"2008-03-13T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/googles-application-upgrade-feed.html"},"modified":"2008-03-13T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T20:15:51","slug":"googles-application-upgrade-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/security\/googles-application-upgrade-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Application Upgrade Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/google-apps.jpg\" \/>Google applications have been upgraded these past years and many times these updates are done quietly as they are software as a service SaaS applications and as such it wasn&#8217;t obvious that people needed to know about these upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>At least that is how many SaaS vendors start out. Then over time, they confuse users to tears as they can&#8217;t figure out if the reason their programs look different in the morning is because of an upgrade the prior evening or a result of the major hangover from the prior night&#8217;s holiday party.<\/p>\n<p>Like many things in life, we can now keep track of all of the happenings in Google applications from a single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\/add?source=atgs&amp;feedurl=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GoogleAppsUpdates\">RSS feed<\/a>. As Google gets into more and more areas we can expect this feed to become massive&#8230; And it should be very interesting to see how many new features Google is able to add and how quickly they advance.<\/p>\n<p>The first person of course to subscribe to these feeds was Steve Ballmer. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google applications have been upgraded these past years and many times these updates are done quietly as they are software as a service SaaS applications and as such it wasn&#8217;t obvious that people needed to know about these upgrades. At least that is how many SaaS vendors start out. Then over time, they confuse users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,188,156],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}