Isn't that what the data APIs are all about? Making it possible for one server backend to query a user's information from another. Combined with OAuth (if that's adopted as the authentication framework), you have a secure (hopefully) way to network a member's information across all the sites/networks they may be part of.
That seems like the real potential to me, more so that having a write-once API for plugin apps. But then I'm just inferring based on the current data API information. The SPI details have yet to be revealed. Gary On 11/4/07, Daniel Feygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary, > > Perhaps I am missing something, but I do not see how OpenSocial makes it > "possible for different container sites to interoperate". > > Daniel > > > > On 11/5/07, Gary Helmling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > True, it doesn't (at least that I see) provide any way for > > applications in the same container to communicate beyond the user > > profile information and data extensions. But by providing a > > standardized set of APIs for accessing container information, it goes > > a long way towards making it possible for different container sites to > > interoperate -- and for the same app to operate on multiple sites, > > which opens up other integration possibilities. > > > > That's what I'm most interested in. But then I am looking at it as > > someone interested in implementing a container as opposed to writing > > an application. > > > > Gary > > > > > > On 11/4/07, Daniel Feygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OpenSocial does nothing to connect applications together (though a > messaging > > > API and data sharing through persistence API would be interesting to > see). > > > OpenSocial provides a portable way to connect applications to a variety > of > > > compliant social networks. > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > > > > On 11/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm fairly sure OpenSocial has been setup as a direct response to > > > > Facebook, 'the best big thing on the internet'. > > > > > > > > OpenSocial will essentially connect many, many web applications > > > > together, which will more than match the 'developer plugins' offered > > > > by Facebook. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Container Developers" 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-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
