title: Rest service for mobile apps and interactive website
body: <p>Hi I am currently redesigning our mobile application. Currently my phone application is doing a url request to my server which is returning a json which then gets absorbed and the data is used accordingly. </p>
  
  <p>The website that interacts with the same kinds of data as well.</p>
  
  <p>I was wondering that if I should create a rest service what makes it different from just having the server output jsons given specific parameters. I was planning on using django to implement this but was wondering what the benefits are of using something like django-piston when django has a rest framework built into it.</p>
  
  <p>Also is creating a rest service a good way for phones and websites to interact with each other?</p>