I've been watching this with some interest. It's certainly on my
"things to do once I get everything really important out of the way" -
list.
OpenID and OpenSocial support would both give us a nice boost, I think.
/Janne
On 25 Mar 2008, at 23:13, Murray Altheim wrote:
While I really balk at calling this a "programming standard", I was
wondering
if anyone has yet looked into implementing portions of the
OpenSocial API
for JSPWiki, since this is obviously gaining momentum and would
garner us
a lot of visibility:
As anticipated, Yahoo is joining the Google-led OpenSocial
alliance, which is
developing a common set of standards for programmers to create
applications
that can run on social networks and other sites.
Yahoo has considered joining the alliance for months, according
to people
familiar with the company’s plans. But Yahoo executives fretted
that Google
might exert too much control over the evolution of OpenSocial
and over any
intellectual property created by the group, these people said.
Yahoo raised
those concerns with Google. Now, Google has agreed to give up
control over
OpenSocial.
In announcing Yahoo’s entry into the alliance, the companies
said that the
programming standard would now be in the hands of the OpenSocial
Foundation, a non-profit group whose founding members will
include Google,
Yahoo and MySpace, another large backer of OpenSocial. The
foundation,
which will be created within 90 days, will “ensure the
neutrality and longevity
of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for
building social
applications across the Web,” the companies said.
from:
Yahoo Joins Social Network Group, as Google Gives Up Control
Miguel Helft, Bits (NYT technology blog), 25 March 2008, The New
York Times
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/yahoo-joins-social-
network-group-as-google-gives-up-control/index.html
see also:
OpenSocial
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
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