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We were aiming for gut feelings, which is why we went with percentages in the poll.

These are definitely important questions that the poll didn't take into account, that we'll most likely need to address in the near future.

As for external services, we were really looking for anything you did to bring in external data, which could be anything from writing the connectors yourself to just loading a module and passing through some API keys.

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The biggest problem IMHO with the APIs is inconsistency, for instance on the FB graph API on some calls it gives you a 302 redirect instead of returning JSON.

so instead of { image: "http://foo.com/image.jpg } you have to catch the Location header and write it into your object.

Next up would be how to represent a date in JSON which seems to vary between an time_t cast to an "int" and a string in ISO-8601 format.

Lets not even get started on XML and attributes vs. elements.

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