OpenSocial is about data, distribution and money
Though the OpenSocial API movement has been welcomed by most of the web enthusiasts, the overall response has been mixed of praises and criticism. The father of Web 2.0 Tim Orielly has already termed OpenSocial as “boring”. According to him Google’s OpenSocial has failed to understand the two fundamental building blocks of Web 2.0 i.e. the open data and loosely coupled small pieces. Still early days to comment on the credibilty of Read more
How to become an OpenSocial Container?
So, you own a popular site and still wondering on how to get into this OpenSocial thing. You want your site to support OpenSocial standards and have no or little idea about where to start from. Well, to start from there’s nothing like “Getting Accepted” into opensocial, your site just needs to support the standards so that it could talk with standard API.
It was Google’s carelessness that Read more
List of sites/containers supporting OpenSocial API
So, atlast the biggie MySpace has also joined the OpenSocial API movement. I am not too sure whether they needed to do this or not, considerering their bigness they could have their own set of APIs which could blend well with their system, but the good thing is that they have shown trust in potential of OpenSocial API.
With many other biggies already Read more
OpenSocial : Users, Developers and Containers
OpenSocial is a set common APIs to build applications across multiple sites. OpenSocial API consists of standard Javascript and HTML, using which applications can access the user data and activities.
OpenSocial for users:
People use social networking sites like orkut, myspace, bebo, friendster, facebook to connect to their friends and relatives. But users Read more
OPSocial.com : OpenSocial Applications and News
Hi, this is Sahil Gupta. I am starting this new blog to keep track on OpenSocial activities, news, applications, pros and cons. OpenSocial is still in early days and it’s the right time for developers to jump into the bandwagon. From time to time we will introduce tutorials and hacks. We will try to keep track on all the latest and buzzing opensocial applications.
So, just stay tuned. We’ll be right back shortly.