OpenSocial is just a standard API for social networks. Google Friend Connect is an example of a federated social network that provides and consumes OpenSocial APIs.
I actually blogged about OpenSocial and friends recently if you're interested in learning more. http://yz.mit.edu/wp/2010/01/19/making-sense-of-openid-oauth-opensocial-google-friend-connect-facebook-connect-and-more/#comment-33142483 Yang On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Sam Berlin sberlin-at-gmail.com |p2p-hackers/Example Allow| <g1twvkk...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > Is this something that that OpenSocial ( > http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ ) can help with? A good > number of social sites already support that. I haven't looked into > the guts of it too deeply, but I think it can support a federated > social network pretty well. > > Sam > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Susheel Daswani > <sdasw...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: >> Reading a bit more in this thread, I think 'federated social network' is a >> more accurate term than 'p2p social network' with regards to examples I'm >> looking for. >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@cs.stanford.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> Adam, the use-case I have in mind is not specific - I am asking generally >>> about the feasibility of running facebook on top of a distributed social >>> network. Lately I've become concerned about the concentration of power in >>> Facebook's hands. >>> From a theoretical point of view I don't see why a distributed social net >>> couldn't work. GMail works with YahooMail works with Hotmail, etc. Of course >>> there are much bigger challenges distributing a social net across different >>> providers, but it should be achievable. >>> So when I say P2P I don't necessarily mean fully distributed - I mean more >>> of the e-mail model. >>> >>> Best, >>> Susheel >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Adam Fisk <a...@littleshoot.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't really know of any per se, but I also think it's a tricky >>>> proposition. As Mr. Gorton always used to say, P2P works best for big >>>> files, >>>> and I really agree. The raw social networking stuff is so data driven and >>>> so >>>> cheap and predominantly such small files that I think doing it via p2p is >>>> making a relatively simple problem all of a sudden hard. >>>> >>>> That said, I'm sure you have a specific use-case in mind, or you wouldn't >>>> have asked =). >>>> >>>> -Adam >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know of any? >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> Susheel >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> p2p-hackers mailing list >>>>> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com >>>>> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Adam Fisk >>>> http://www.littleshoot.org | http://adamfisk.wordpress.com | >>>> http://twitter.com/adamfisk >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2p-hackers mailing list >> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >> >> > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
