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One of the Google folks working on OpenSocial sent me a message
via Facebook asking what I thought about
the technical details of the recent announcements. Since my day job is working
on social networking platforms for Web properties at Microsoft and I'm deeply
interested in RESTful protocols, this is something I definitely have some
thoughts about. Below is what started off as a private message but ended up
being long enough to be its own article.
First Impressions
In reading the OpenSocial API
documentation it seems clear that is intended to be the functional
equivalent of the Facebook platform.
Instead of the Facebook
users and friends APIs, we get the OpenSocial
People and Friends Data API. Instead of the Facebook
feed API, we get the OpenSocial
Activities API. Instead of the Facebook
Data Store API, we get the OpenSocial
Persistence Data API. Instead of FQL as a
friendly alternative to the various REST APIs we get a
JavaScript object model.
In general, I personally prefer the Facebook platform to OpenSocial. This is due to three reasons:
- There is no alternative to the deep integration into the Web site's user experience that is facilitated with FBML.
- I prefer idiomatic XML to tunneling data through Atom feeds in ways that [in my opinion] add unnecessary cruft.
- The Facebook APIs encourage developers to build social and item relationship graphs within their application while the OpenSocial seems only concerned with developers stuffing data in key/value pairs.
The JavaScript API
At first I assumed the OpenSocial
JavaScript API would provide similar functionality to FBML given the
large number of sound bites quoting Google employees stating that instead of
"proprietary markup" you could use "standard JavaScript" to
build OpenSocial
applications. However it seems the JavaScript API is simply a wrapper on top of
the various REST APIs. I'm sure there's some comment one could make questioning
if REST APIs are so simple why do developers feel the need to hide them behind
object models?
Given the varying features and user interface choices in social networking sites, it is unsurprising that there is no rich mechanism specified for adding entry points to the application into the container sites user interface. However it is surprising that no user interface hooks are specified at all. This is surprising given that there are some common metaphors in social networking sites (e.g., a profile page, a friends list, etc) which can be interacted with in a standard way. It is also shocking that Google attacked Facebook's use of "proprietary markup" only to not even ship an equivalent feature.
The People and Friends Data API
The People
and Friends Data API is used to retrieve information about a user or the
user's friends as an Atom feed. Each user is represented as an atom:entry which
is a PersonKind
(which should not be confused with an Atom person construct).
It is expected that the URL structure for accessing people and friends feeds
will be of the form http://<domain>/feeds/people/<userid> and
http://<domain>/feeds/people/<userid>/friends, respectively.
Compare the following response to a request for a user's information using OpenSocial with the equivalent Facebook API call response.
GET http://orkut.com/feeds/people/14358878523263729569
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss=
<link rel='thumbnail' type='image/*'
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html'
<link rel='self'
<gd:extendedProperty name='lang'
Below is what the above information would look like if returned by Facebook's users.getInfo method:
<users_getInfo_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/
<city>Palo Alto</city>
<country>United States</country>
I've already mentioned that I prefer idiomatic XML to tunneling data through Atom feeds. Comparing the readability of both examples should explain why.
The Activities Data API
A number of social networking sites now provide a feature which enables users to see the recent activities of members of their social network in an activity stream. The Facebook news feed, Orkut's
updates from your friends, and the Windows
Live Spaces what's new page are all examples of this feature. The OpenSocial
Activities Data API provides a mechanism for OpenSocial applications to
access and update this activity stream as an Atom feed. All of the users activities
or all activities from a specific application can be accessed using URIs of the
form http://<domain>/activities/feeds/activities/user/<userID> and
Currently there is no reference documentation on this API. My assumption is that since Orkut is the only OpenSocial site that supports this feature, it is difficult to produce a spec that will work for other services without it being a verbatim description of Orkut's implementation.
There are some notes on how Orkut attempts to prevent applications from spamming a user's activity stream. For one, applications are only allowed to update the activity stream for their source directly instead of the activity stream for the user. I assume that Google applies some filter to the union of all the source-specific activity streams before generating the user's activity feed to eliminate spam. Secondly, applications are monitored to see if they post too many messages to the activity stream or if they post promotional messages instead of the user's activities to the stream. All of this makes it seem difficult to see how one could specify the behavior of this API and feature set reliably for a diverse set of social networking sites.
The Persistence Data API
The OpenSocial
Persistence API allows applications to store and retrieve key<->value
pairs that are either user-specific or are global to the application. An
example of the former is a listing of company name and stock ticker pairs,
while an example of the latter is a user's stock portfolio. The feed of global
key<->value pairs for an application can be accessed at a URL of the form
http://<domain>/feeds/apps/<appID>/persistence/global for the
entire feed and
if seeking a particular key<->value pair. User-specific key<->value
pairs are available at the URL of the form http://<domain>/feeds/apps/<appID>/persistence/<userID>/instance/<instan....
However, I will add that an Atom feed seems like a horrible representation for a list of key<->value pairs. It's so bad that the documentation doesn't provide an example of such a feed.
Hosting OpenSocial Applications
The documentation on hosting OpenSocial applications implies that any site that can host Google
gadgets can also host OpenSocial applications. In practice, it means that any site that you can place a <script> element on can point to a gadget and thus render it. Whether the application will actually work will depend on whether the hosting service has actually implemented the OpenSocial Service Provider Interface (SPI).
Unfortunately, the documentation on implementing the OpenSocial SPI is missing in action. From the Google site:
To host OpenSocial apps, your website must support the SPI side of the OpenSocial APIs. Usually your SPI will connect to your own social network, so that an OpenSocial app added to your website automatically uses your site's data. However, it is possible to use data from another social network as well, should you prefer. Soon, we will provide a development kit with documentation and code to better support OpenSocial websites, along with a sample sandbox which implements the OpenSocial SPI using in-memory storage. The SPI implements:
- Adding and removing friends Adding and removing apps
- Storing activities Retrieving activity streams for self and friends
- Storing and retrieving per-app and per-app-per-user data
The OpenSocial website development kit will include full SPI documentation. It will provide open source reference implementations for both client and server components.
I assume that the meat of the OpenSocial SPI documentation is just more detailed rules about how to implement the REST APIs described above. The interesting bits will likely be the reference implementations of the API which will likely become the de facto standard implementations instead of encouraging dozens of buggy incompatible versions of the OpenSocial API to bloom.
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OpenSocial 11/06/07 04:53:58 AM EST | ||||
nothing more than another networking service that is consumed by multiple web application |
bugzpodder 11/05/07 10:58:33 AM EST | ||||
Excellent post! Thank you! |
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ISTANBUL -- The Turkish Grand Prix will remain on the Formula One calendar despite a history of poor attendance.
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone said Friday that talks were under way to secure a 10-year contract extension with the Istanbul Park Circuit. The current deal runs out after this year's race.
"We'll be here again next year," Ecclestone said at the Istanbul Park Circuit.
With few fans in the grandstands for Friday's opening practice, Ecclestone pleaded for patience and insisted ticket sales were up this year.
"It's not good, but it takes a long time" to build a fan base in a country without a history of F1, Ecclestone said. "Let's wait till Saturday or Sunday. It'll be better than last year."
The Turkish GP has been held since 2005.
Meanwhile, Ecclestone said more races could be added to the 19-race calendar next season. The United States GP is returning in 2012 after a deal was signed to build a circuit in Austin, Texas.
"Not being in America is wrong for a global sport," Williams chief executive officer Adam Parr said. "So, well done to Bernie because just when you think he's given up the case, he comes up with a fantastic deal."
A second race in the U.S. is being considered.
"For Red Bull it's very important, it's a major market," Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost said. "I always said we would need two Grand Prix in America, next on the East side."
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Just wanted to post a quick one from one of my favorite spots at SOM: the miniature hedge maze behind Yale SOM's International Center for Finance. You can see from the picture that it's a bit bare right now but in the spring it's fantastically verdant.
Read MoreThe forms currently rising on the 4.25-acre site of the new Yale SOM campus are known as sheer walls. Designed to provide structural support to the building, they'll hold stairways, elevators, and vents. They don't yet present a picture of what the finished building will look like. But that will soon change.
Read MoreTechnology abounds here in New Haven! Although perhaps not the first place people think of when they think of tech hot spots, with the wealth of pharma and biotech firms in the region (drawn in large part by Yale and its strength in the bio-sciences), the Science Park incubator a few blocks from Yale SOM, and the many technology-related ventures connected to Yale (such as Yale's Office of Cooperative Research, the tech transfer arm of the University that patents and commercializes Yale research, and with which Yale SOM students are frequently involved), there's quite a lot happening in the tech space in and around New Haven.
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When I wrote yesterday that UKIP's future looks to feature a big fight between its various factions, I hadn't expected it to start in earnest until after the election. Even with a lot of underlying tensions visible in the current battles over candidate selection, I had assumed that the prospect of electoral success would paper over the cracks in the short term but Douglas Carswell appears to have decided not to wait. (That's a Daily Mail link, just so you're warned)
Carswell's going over some old ground here, as it's close to the message of his victory speech after the Clacton by-election. It's pretty much the credo of the libertarian wing of the party (the second wave of Alex Harrowell's three UKIPs) and it's interesting that Carswell feels that now is the time to restate that. Amidst all the speculation about who might be UKIP#s candidate in which seat, and which seats they might win, Carswell holding Clacton appears to be something everyone is assuming. Given that relative security, is he taking the opportunity to play a longer game?
The problem for Carswell is that libertarianism is still about as popular now as it was when the first wave of libertarians started trying to ally themselves with UKIP, and I think we can safely assume – given what we've seen of them – that their latest wave of recruits aren't teeming with libertarians. However, there are a number of people who want a libertarian UKIP amongst wealthy donors and the right-wing commentariat. Yet again, we're back to the interesting effects of the UKIP leadership electoral system. To make Carswell leader, they don't need 50% of the party to support him, just one vote more than the rest of them get. By building up his profile now and trying to drag a few more libertarians into the fold (and I think we can assume Carswell's leadership campaign, when it happens, will be pretty well funded), he becomes a much more credible candidate. He can afford to take the time now to raise his profile, and hope it pays off when the time comes.


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Treasury's New Rules May Slow, But Won't Stop Corporate Tax Inversions
By Howard Gleckman :: September 23rd, 2014
Will Treasury's new rules stop the wave of corporate tax inversions? No they won't. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew acknowledged as much when the agency proposed the curbs yesterday. Will they slow the practice? Perhaps, but even that is not certain. In a perverse way, Treasury's most effective weapon may have been ambiguity. Once the Administration announced […]
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Does Treasury Have the Legal Authority To Curb Tax Inversions?
By Howard Gleckman :: September 22nd, 2014
While we wait to see how and when the Obama Administration will use its executive authority to curb the use of corporate tax inversions, the debate continues over whether Treasury even has the power to limit the practice. In a new article in Tax Notes, Tax Policy Center senior fellow Steve Rosenthal minces no words: […]
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Don't Count on Much Economic Growth From Individual Tax Reform…Or From Tax Rate Cuts
By Howard Gleckman :: September 10th, 2014
Can individual income tax reform that cuts rates and eliminates subsidies increase economic growth? How about tax cuts by themselves? The answer is: Maybe, but not by much, according to a new paper by the Tax Policy Center's Bill Gale and Andrew Samwick, director of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social […]
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In a speech today at the Tax Policy Center, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the agency will decide "in the very very near future" how it will respond to the recent wave of tax-motivated corporate inversions. Lew strongly urged Congress to curb the practice on its own, but suggested Treasury might move administratively if lawmakers […]
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Is It Time to Repeal The Corporate Income Tax?
By Howard Gleckman :: September 4th, 2014
In case you missed it, The New York Times' political and policy blog The Upshot published a fascinating debate throughout August on the question: Should the corporate income tax be abolished? It's a query that may be raised on Monday morning, when Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks at the Tax Policy Center on business tax […]
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Could The U.S. Fix Taxation of Multinational Corporations With A Sales-Based Formula?
By Howard Gleckman :: August 26th, 2014
Corporate inversions have been the topic of the summer for tax wonks (beats jellyfish and beach traffic, I suppose), but the issue is a classic bit of Washington misdirection. Instead of focusing on the real disease—an increasingly dysfunctional corporate income tax—we are obsessing over a symptom—firms such as Burger King engaging in self-help reform by […]
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How Much Would An Individual Tax Rate Cut Add to the Deficit, and Who Would Benefit?
By Howard Gleckman :: August 21st, 2014
Reducing tax rates is a guiding principal of most tax reform plans. Even Democrats who see reform partly as a tool to boost revenues agree that some money generated by eliminating tax preferences ought to go to rate reduction. But how much does Treasury lose when Congress reduces individual tax rates, and which taxpayers benefit the […]
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New TPC Analysis: What Dave Camp's Tax Reform Plan Would Really Mean
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In an extensive new analysis of House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp's tax reform plan, my Tax Policy Center colleagues confirm his proposal would raise about the same amount of money over 10 years as current law and impose roughly the same tax burden across income groups as today's revenue code. TPC also concluded that Camp's […]
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The Tax-Shopping Backstory of the Medtronic-Covidien Inversion
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How can a company headquartered in Minneapolis merge with a competitor run out of Mansfield, Massachusetts in order to pay taxes in Ireland? It's just another day in corporate inversion-land, where an opportunity to cut taxes is once again driving key business decisions. This time, the buyer is Minnesota-based medical device maker Medtronic Inc. Its […]
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By Howard Gleckman :: June 5th, 2014
In their zeal to provide a legal alternative to banned marriage for same-sex couples, some states may have created a new tax shelter for heterosexual couples. By choosing domestic partnership or civil union over marriage, opposite-sex couples are able to avoid paying a federal income tax marriage penalty, just as same-sex couples can. Over the […]
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Highlights of the 2015 Auckland Nines Tournament Final between the Rabbitohs & Sharks
Cronulla and the Sydney Roosters slug it out for the right to meet Souths in the 2015 Auckland Nines final.
Rugby league fans have the chance to meet players from all 16 clubs at a massive fan day in Auckland on Friday.
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All 16 squads for the 2015 Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines this weekend.
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Everyone knows Shaun Johnson is capable of carrying the Warriors to the NRL Auckland Nines title, it's just that his coach would rather he didn't have to.
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Titans teammate Dave Taylor believes it is Kane Elgey's defence that proves he is ready for a shot in the NRL.
Thu 29 January 2015, 6:00AM Tony Webeck, Chief Queensland Correspondent | Source: NRL.com
Kiwis captain Simon Mannering has won New Zealand Rugby League's Player of the Year award.
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Tigers confirm that young front-rower Matthew Lodge has been charged by NSW Police.
Wed 28 January 2015, 7:15PM Wests Tigers Media | Source: NRL.com
After getting his first chance to take on some of the best in the NRL at the Auckland Nines, Newcastle fullback Nathan Ross is chasing a first-grade call-up.
Wed 28 January 2015, 4:00PM Jack Brady | Source: NRL.com
Kevin Naiqama will line up for his third club in three years this season, and is ready to finally break through for a regular first-grade spot on the wing.
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About me...hmm. Ive been working straight out of high school. I have been working with the same company since I was 18. I plan on going back to school soon to better my future. I've been working hard on bettering my health to also better my future. I'm the type of guy that wants to make sure everyone is happy. I enjoy making people smile and laugh. I'm a sweet compassionate guy who has a great sense of humor. I enjoy spending time with friends and family, but would really like to spend time with that special someone. One of my favorite things to do is go fishing. Anything from freshwater to saltwater fishing. I always look forward to the yearly fishing trip to mammoth with friends in the summer. Driving up there is awesome and would like to drive cross country someday. Some of the other places I like to go to would include Vegas, Lake Havasu, Mammoth, Big bear, and of course the beach. I enjoy someone who is just like me, sweet, caring, and funny . Someone that can accept me for who I am. I'm looking for someone to enjoy life with. Through the ups and the downs. I find that I get along really well with someone that is goofy lol, but also intelligent. I want someone that when I go to bed, they are the last thing on my mind and the first thing on my mind when I wake up.
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I exercise 5 or more times per week.
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Success in sports is all about confidence.
Avery Bradley has it right now and Jose Iglesias – despite his home run Wednesday in a minor league game in Florida – doesn't.
It's why Bradley has been able fill the void left by the ankle injury to Ray Allen and it's why Iglesias couldn't take advantage of a spring training opportunity to win the starting shortstop job for the Red Sox.
They are two fascinating studies of what the future holds for two franchises in undeniable transition.
The Celtics were forced to look to the second-year player due to Allen's turning his left ankle on March 12 in Los Angeles and an NBA roster limited to 15 spaces.
The Red Sox have the luxury of a 40-man roster and veteran names like Mike Aviles and Nick Punto to hold Iglesias' spot warm until he proves he can consistently hit or layoff breaking and off-speed pitches.
Bradley just turned 21 last November and is in his second NBA season. If there had been no lockout, there's a chance he might have started the season in the D-League with the Maine Red Claws, where he played big minutes last season.
But the lockout placed a priority on young healthy legs, and with Paul Pierce nursing a sore heel that forced him to miss two weeks of camp in December, Bradley stepped in and filled the void off the bench while Mickael Pietrus and Brandon Bass were starting more and more games.
He looked the part of a young player still trying to find his way in the NBA. He broke double digits in scoring just once in the first month of the season. But then he started eight straight games as Rajon Rondo nursed a wrist injury.
The team didn't fall apart. They won six of the eight games from late January into early February. That was a foundation – a base – for Bradley to build upon. But then came his breakout game against the Wizards last Sunday. He scored 15 points in the first quarter, outscoring Washington by two. It wasn't Bradley's fault they gave him five layups. He took advantage, on his way to a career-high 23 points and a Celtics win.
Now, Allen and Pietrus are out and the Celtics are in dire need of contributions from guards not named Allen or Rondo.
Bradley has picked a pretty good time to go on a roll. He's started the last four Celtics games going into Friday's contest in Minnesota, allowing Doc Rivers to give Allen time to get his ankle right for the playoffs.
"Just his confidence, you know that's all it's pretty much been with him," Pierce said after Bradley's solid 43-minute effort in Wednesday's win over Utah. "You know getting the experience, getting the confidence. You know his ability he shows it when we are able to practice, like I said before it's about getting that in-game experience and he's gaining that confidence, and he's comfortable out there, he's understanding what Doc wants from him and he's looking good out there."
Midway through the fourth, it was Bradley – not the resting Rondo - leading the cast of Keyon Dooling, Greg Steimsma, Kevin Garnett and Ryan Hollins. Forget their charge to the top of the Atlantic, raise your hand if you thought that was possible for a contending Celtics team.
"It means a lot," Bradley said. "Earlier in the season I had the chance to gain confidence, and now I'm even more confident. And every game I go in and like I said, I know my defense can always beat the point if I play hard. So I play harder defense, and I let everything else work itself out. I get points off of cuts, I just go in there and play hard for my team.
"You know I feel a lot more confident because I know my teams and Doc really are behind me. I know what they expect, I'm not out there lost, I'm a lot more confident, I don't second guess anything I just go out there and play my game."
His coach didn't argue.
"Obviously we can tell he's far more comfortable at that position and unfortunately for him, in a lot of ways, we've had to play him at the other position, but I think it gives him confidence," Doc Rivers said of Bradley's play-making ability at shooting guard. "One of the things I've said consistently all year is that he can shoot the ball and he was making me a liar for most of the year. It was great to see him go in. I thought there was a point it was clearly confidence because you see him in practice and he makes them, then he gets in the game and he just needed one to fall and that's the other thing we kept saying, so that was good."
Compare that, if you will for a moment, to these words this week from Bobby Valentine on 22-year-old Jose Iglesias after the shortstop was sent to Triple-A Pawtucket to start the season.
"He needs to work a little more on the consistency of his swing and play," said Valentine. "He's been working on things, and about two weeks ago, he had a mechanic that looked like it was real functional. I think an 0-for-3 took him out of it. That's one of the things he has to develop, a confidence in his program."
Iglesias started off hot in spring training at the plate, going 3-for-10 in his first four games. Then he pulled his groin and had two hits in the two weeks leading up to Wednesday's decision to pull the plug.
"I don't stop believing in a player until I see him stop believing in himself," Valentine said. "He came into the dugout [after an at-bat] with a look of wondering that I don't like to see. This is not the time to be searching. You have to go into the season not searching."
Iglesias' response: "At the end of the day, I can't control that. Get better -- that's what I can control, and that's what I will."
All about confidence.
Bradley has so much right now that he's playing not one, but two positions in the NBA.
Iglesias - partly because of an unlucky injury - is back to Pawtucket to prove to the Red Sox he belongs back with the big league team soon.
Barring trades, both players have bright futures with their respective organizations. Bradley just has a big head start.
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Will Bradley slip into the No. 2 guard spot next to Rondo next season if Ray Allen is out the door?
@JdotD @Trags No, AB too small to guard SGs. He makes for a good backup though, as long as his PG ability/vision continues to improve.
@LucidSportsFan @Trags definitely maybe.
@Joe_Bettencourt @Trags Bradley a good combo guard off the bench, sub for and play with Rondo, prefer more size and scoring for a starting 2 guard
The thinking among NBA executives right now is that Bradley is nothing more than a stopgap measure at the shooting guard spot because of his size (6-feet-2). He can certainly defend in transition but is very vulnerable on the low post, as was seen on Wednesday Gordon Hayward posted him up and got to the basket often. He is still learning the point and obviously, still need to work on his jumper. But that didn't stop Rondo from developing.
Who will have the bigger future ahead of them, Bradley or Iglesias?
@Dunkfaced @Trags Iglesias due to the fact that Boston seems set on guards with Rondo + possibility of Rivers.
@0_LayDX @Trags #TragsBag Avery Bradley, already has the defense (like Jose) but has shown he can play offense and be very consistent
Iglesias has two huge things going for him besides his age. There is opportunity and he has loads of skill, well-developed defensively and still raw offensively. The stage is set for Iglesias to develop into the shortstop of this decade for the Red Sox. He will not be Nomar Garciaparra or Alex Rodriguez but watch him enough and you can see why there are those in the sport who have compared his range to Derek Jeter when the Yankees shortstop was coming up. Jeter turned into a hall of famer because he could hit, even developing some power. Mark my words, Iglesias will be up in the majors when he learns to hit the breaking ball or lay off it. Anxious young hitters jump at pitches in the batter's box. All batters, great and not-so great, guess from time to time – they just usually do so from their back foot, not before they've already committed.
So, was it the right call to have Iglesias start 2012 in Pawtucket?
@s_thorn @Trags Beyond the right call, it's the easy call. He was obviously not ready offensively. Very easy to see. Batted under .200 this spring. Not only that, he never showed he was ready offensively in Pawtucket last yr. Not sure why ppl would think he can hit at ML level now
@JJensenRF @Trags As we watch catchable singles trickle through the sieve on the left side of the infield, we'll wish that we had abetter glove there.
@IrishRedSox77 @Trags I think it's a good move so he can work on fielding w/PawSox but depending on how Aviles does, it's good to know Iggy is right there.
@mlodi3430 @Trags Yes, allow him to get more confident at the plate. He is still young and Aviles has great potential as well (.300 hitter) #TragsBag
Let's face it. This team needs to win now and they've determined that they need to do offensively. That's what this means. They can't afford to have Iglesias carrying his bat and his slumping shoulders back to the dugout in April when the team is trying to avoid the 0-6 and 2-9 start of 2011. There was no way in the world Iglesias could bat leadoff but his replacement Mike Aviles can. That factor can't be overlooked, either. Aviles gives the Red Sox a better chance to win early.
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Woodbridge Company Ltd., the private holding company that manages the Thomson family's multi-billion-dollar assets, is making a management change at the very top.
Geoff Beattie, at the helm of Woodbridge since 1998, will step down on Dec. 31. Woodbridge owns stakes in the Globe and Mail newspaper as well as a 55 per cent stake in Thomson Reuters, a global news and financial information company.
David Binet, who is currently Woodbridge's chief operating officer, will replace Beattie as president and CEO on Jan. 1, 2013. Binet was also appointed to the board of directors of Thomson Reuters this week.
Prior to joining Woodbridge, Binet was a partner at law firm Torys, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.
Beattie will stay on as deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters, which employs more than 60,000 people and operates in more than 100 countries.
"Woodbridge has experienced a period of growth and change under Geoff's tenure, including the acquisition of Reuters by Thomson Reuters," said David Thomson, who is chairman of both Woodbridge and Thomson Reuters, in a written statement.
"We anticipate a continued collaboration with Geoff at Thomson Reuters, which is our largest investment and of fundamental importance to us," Thomson said.
Some analysts have speculated that the Woodbridge executive change is related to Thomson Reuters, which merged in 2008 and struggles to compete in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Bloomberg reported that UBS analyst Phillip Huang wrote in a note that Woodbridge may be more open to consider options too boost value, including a potential sale of all or parts of the financial and risk segment of Thomson Reuters.
"Over a 10-year period, a five-year period, any way you look at it, Thomson Reuters hasn't performed well as a stock," said Bryan Yarbrough, an analyst with Edward Jones in St. Louis. "Did they wring any value out of the Reuters deal?
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