Hi Chris! Thank you for your thorough answer.
I know that the profile of some user might be private and cannot be easily grabbed in such way. But all I want to do with OpenSocial is to check whether the user is registered in particular social network or not. Does OpenSocial provide this kind of feature? Anyway in Facebook it is possible to search people using FQL. OpenSocial said to be more open than Facebook. I am not going to access someone's profile, I just need to know if some users is affiliated with particular social network. Thank you. On Jun 19, 2:37 pm, Chris Chabot <chab...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Sarvar, > > The 'Open' in OpenSocial refers to the standard being open, everyone is able > to join and use it, and there's an open process in which people can > participate and help form the specification. > > The 'Open' doesn't however refer to people's private data, that is a policy > that the social site's decide for them selves; And most (think: 99%) of them > don't publish all social data of their members, so building a data mining > app that goes of and finds profiles on all the social networks, that's > something you can't make with it. > > What you could make is an app in which the user is prompted to give > permission to your app to read his profile and friend data (authentication > through OAuth, and fetching the social information via the social REST > API's), but the user would have to give permission per social site, and this > would only work for the social sites that expose their REST API's > > There's a number of libraries that make this easier for > you:http://blog.opensocial.org/2008/12/opensocial-now-friends-with-php-ja... > > Goodluck, > > -- Chris > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Sarvar Abdullaev <sar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I learned that OpenSocial provides single standard API to major social > > networks. So it means that it is possible to search people using > > OpenSocial and find the profiles of them. If it is possible, how can I > > implement such application which would find the list of social sites > > were searched person is registered. It should be quite obvious and > > easy task to do. > > > Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
