Sharing data by using OData
Consuming OData services is only half the story. However, having the ability to expose your data as an OData service is another topic that needs to be covered.
Microsoft is implementing OData services across their products as a standard way of exposing and sharing data. The following is a short list of Microsoft products that expose their data with OData, with more Microsoft products expected to follow in the near future:
SharePoint
Azure Tables
SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
MS CRM (Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management)
TFS (Team Foundation Server) with OData plugin
There are numerous online websites that expose their data, allowing anyone to query them. As an example, it is possible to get a list of all photos that Microsoft has uploaded to the Twitpic at the following address:
http://odata.twitpic.com/Users('Microsoft')/Images
The following is a short list of sites that support the protocol:
EBay at http://ebayodata.cloudapp.net
Netflix...
