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Roy Fielding recently wrote in "REST APIs must be hypertext-driven" I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today's example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating. That was pretty much my thought when I saw that spec. In a comment to his post he continues. The OpenSocial RESTful protocol is not RESTful. It could be made so with some relatively small changes, but right now it is just wrapping RPC results in common Web media types. That also has been exactly what struck me about that protocol when I looked at it.