I don't think anyone is claiming that the opensocial API will be influenced by just what Orkut can do Even Google is planning to use opensocial in gmail as well, and there sending a message would be a useful thing.
Personally I think that allowing applications to send email messages from a social network is pretty spam-prone. That would users to put gedagets on their profile that just send a bunch of mail to whoever visits them... Perhaps a more secure model could be used, e.g . only send email to the owner, or only allow certain whitelisted apps to send mail. Then again in gmail, having a gadget that sends mail would be useful (and less spam-prone, since you installed the gadget yourself, and if you want to spam your friends you can do that anyway). So there are going to be differences. I think that there will always be differences between social networks in what they support, and how much information they arw illing to share with third parties. And this is good; if every SNS had the same features, what would there be left to choose, who could then innovate? So OpenSocial has to support this. The first step is that opensocial defines a set of terms and methods that work for all social networks. The second step is that gadgets can request capabilities; a list of all capabilities should be managed somewhere central so that at least the same capability from two containers means the same functionality.... On 12/17/07, Julian Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Aakash Bapna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:15:29 > >No for both with current API functions.. > >and as OpenSocial is not for orkut only, i doubt the send message > >through APIs will be introduced.. > > This seems backwards to me. Virtually every website with social network > functions has a mechanism to message a single person. OpenSocial is > intended to be a set of common APIs used across lots of SN websites. So > OpenSocial should provide API definitions for send message. In fact if a > function is common, but not available on Orkut, then the APIs should > support it as well. A good example of that is "Status" or as Twitter > might call it "What are you doing now". Orkut doesn't have this > (although Jaiku, owned by Google, does) But Facebook, MySpace, and many > others do. > > We mustn't let OpenSocial be "What Orkut does". And we mustn't let > OpenSocial be limited and missing function because "Orkut doesn't have > that function". > > -- > Julian Bond E&MSN: julian_bond at voidstar.com M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 > Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 > Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ skype:julian.bond?chat > Temporarily Out Of Order > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial API Definition" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
