[OpenSocial] Re: Migrating to a new group format

2007-11-13 Thread Julian Bond
Lane LiaBraaten (Google) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:25:10 This group has fostered a lot of great discussion about OpenSocial -- so much that it can be hard to keep up with all the threads. As a result, this group will be getting a makeover that will create subgroups for various

[OpenSocial] Re: Disabling cache in the Orkut sandbox

2007-11-13 Thread Alper Çuğun
On Nov 7, 3:22 am, ronman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a very helpful script, and bpc=1 is indeed added to the end of the URL, but it still caches. Yeah, for me also it doesn't pick up any changes in the XML file. Is there another OpenSocial sandbox we can use te develop on? -- Alper

[OpenSocial] Re: Universal Profile Url

2007-11-13 Thread Ignacio Blanco
Hi You should concatenate: synd (parameter) + getField( opensocial.Person.PROFILE_URL) Regards, Ignacio. On Nov 13, 2007 12:00 PM, sergi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to generate profile's url for a user for any OS container? Orkut's getField(opensocial.Person.PROFILE_URL) returns url

[OpenSocial] Re: Universal Profile Url

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Lindner
Arne from Orkut mentioned that they would make the response for PROFILE_URL into absolute URLs in the future. On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:24:49PM -0300, Ignacio Blanco wrote: Hi You should concatenate: synd (parameter) + getField( opensocial.Person.PROFILE_URL) Regards, Ignacio. On

[OpenSocial] Authentication Service

2007-11-13 Thread Rohit Shankar
I read a section about Authenticating to the OpenSocial People service in the People Data API section. Will the opensocial service providers will expose such service for authentication. Rohit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[OpenSocial] Re: Choosing a Random Friend

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Lindner
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:52:18AM -0700, timROGERS wrote: I am making a OpenSocial gadget that chooses a random friend of the OWNER's, and then displays there photo, there name and a link to there profile. Basically, I want to use this construct from the sample:

[OpenSocial] Re: Universal Profile Url

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Currently you can get the full profile URL in Orkut using the following code: _args()[parent] + person.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.PROFILE_URL); Like Paul said, though, this is a temporary solution - I expect that the returned path will change in the future, or there will be a method to

[OpenSocial] Inbox notification posting.

2007-11-13 Thread codewarrior415
I was looking around for a function like this which exist in facebook where user are notified or invited to install the application. Let's say for instance I install an application I like. The application ask if I want to invite users to add the application. How can the application send a

[OpenSocial] Re: Disabling cache in the Orkut sandbox

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi ronman, Are you using the refreshInterval parameter for your IG_Fetch calls? From http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/remote-content.html#Params : // Disable caching completely and fetch fresh content every time -- !! Try to avoid using this !!

[OpenSocial] Re: Disabling cache in the Orkut sandbox

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hey Dan, That would make sense. I'll bring it up with the team doing the pushes. ~Arne On Nov 10, 6:07 am, Daniel C. Silverstein (cubes) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arne, Why not flush the cache whenever there's a new api release is pushed out? (Dan) On

[OpenSocial] Re: Inbox notification posting.

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This ties in with messaging and hasn't been released for Orkut yet. This is an important function for developers, and I'll be sure to post when this feature becomes available. ~Arne On Nov 13, 9:40 am, codewarrior415 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around for a function like this which

[OpenSocial] Re: 500 Internal Server Error

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
The Orkut sandbox will only return user data about your friends who are also whitelisted for the sandbox. We're doing this for privacy reasons, but it does look like a bug if you don't have any friends who are whitelisted. There's an Orkut community for friending people with sandbox accounts

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial and Google Gadgets

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Are you talking about non-social gadgets, such as the ones that run on iGoogle today? I can't speak for other containers, but gadgets running on iGoogle today should run in Orkut without modification (although there are a couple of require feature= extensions that aren't currently supported,

[OpenSocial] Re: Inbox notification posting.

2007-11-13 Thread codewarrior415
When does google expect the messaging portion to launch? On Nov 13, 9:48 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This ties in with messaging and hasn't been released for Orkut yet. This is an important function for developers, and I'll be sure to post when this feature

[OpenSocial] Re: Migrating to a new group format

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hey Julian, The opensocial-container group (and this one) have been brought under the umbrella of a general opensocial parent group, which will make navigating between them a bit easier. Additionally, you should see some container-specific groups, which are meant to hold discussions about

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial and Google Gadgets

2007-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The people from Hi5 discussed something about it in a previous thread; the basic problem is to convert the XML of a iGoogle gadget into standard javascript. Of course you can do it by running it across gmodules.com, and then recovering all the .js files and also editing out the google footnote,

[OpenSocial] Re: Global vs. Instance vs. Person App Data

2007-11-13 Thread Zach
Dustin - thank you for the incredibly useful reply! I now understand the differences and this should help those in the future confused by the same things. On Nov 13, 12:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine you created a gameappand would like to storedatafor it.

[OpenSocial] groups, besides friends

2007-11-13 Thread Alejandro Rivero
How should one to define groups in opensocial? In principle, a group class is very much as an individual: it has friends (the members of the group) and some Name and identification, thus a profile. Also, in the same way that an individual can to friend with some another (and to defriend), it

[OpenSocial] Re: groups, besides friends

2007-11-13 Thread Kevin Marks
OpenSocial has the concept of 'Viewer friends' and 'Owner friends', where the Owner is dependent ont he page that you are viewing. If the page belongs to a group, and has a Application in it, it makes sense for the Owner to be the group, and the Owner Friends to be the group members (or that

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial and Google Gadgets

2007-11-13 Thread zwiet
I thought the OpenSocial was based upon Google Gadget technology (like iGoogle gadgets), so I assumed iGoogle gadgets would become available for the social networks that support OpenSocial. But there's more to it I suppose. It would be nice though. Widgetbox has some kind of API for Facebook. The

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial is not defined (still!)

2007-11-13 Thread Dustin Jorge
Try Firefox... from what I can tell it's an IE only error. Nicholas Krut wrote: Does anyone know a workaround to get opensocial working when this error comes up? It seems like there is still a huge issue here that is not being addressed. I cannot even begin to develop opensocial apps

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial is not defined (still!)

2007-11-13 Thread Nicholas Krut
Nope. I'm in Firefox on Ubuntu. =/ I'll try firefox on Windows too. On Nov 13, 2:03 pm, Dustin Jorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try Firefox... from what I can tell it's an IE only error. Nicholas Krut wrote: Does anyone know a workaround to get opensocial working when this error comes

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial is not defined (still!)

2007-11-13 Thread Nicholas Krut
I am also getting this error with Firefox in Windows XP as well as open social is undefined in Internet Explorer 6. It appears that the opensocial namespace IS NOT LOADING at all. Someone mentioned there being problems for non-west-coast people, could that be the issue here? I am in Colorado.

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial is not defined (still!)

2007-11-13 Thread Nicholas Krut
I also tried the same thing making a call to opensocial functions and got the same result. On Nov 13, 2:29 pm, Paul Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:24:23PM -, Nicholas Krut wrote: I am also getting this error with Firefox in Windows XP as well as open social

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial apps running on Facebook! (opensocket)

2007-11-13 Thread blanconet
Sorry, I seem to have had a copy-and-paste accident with the formatting in my last message. The address is http://apps.facebook.com/opensocket/ Regards, Ignacio. On Nov 13, 7:07 pm, Ignacio Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenSocket is a Fa cebook application that can host any Google Gadget

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial is not defined (still!)

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hey Nicholas, In the Net tab you should see a request for opensocial.js and orkutcontainer1.js. Can you give me the responses from both requests? Thanks, ~Arne On Nov 13, 1:40 pm, Nicholas Krut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried the same thing making a call to opensocial functions and

[OpenSocial] How do I put my application on the orkut's application directory

2007-11-13 Thread codewarrior415
I can install my own application just fine, but how can other users add my application? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OpenSocial API Definition (was OpenSocial Developers) group. To post to this

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial and Google Gadgets

2007-11-13 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
I've added an open-sourced gmodules library to the feature requests. There's a larger issue here - making it easier for containers to parse the gadget spec, but I believe that there should be code to help this in the Container Developer's Kit when it is released to developers. ~Arne Thirdly,

[OpenSocial] Re: Inbox notification posting.

2007-11-13 Thread Jattfx
Wondering the same here ... On Nov 13, 1:03 pm, codewarrior415 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When does google expect the messaging portion to launch? On Nov 13, 9:48 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This ties in with messaging and hasn't been released for Orkut yet.

[OpenSocial] Photos

2007-11-13 Thread Edusis
How can i get a list of photos? thnx --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OpenSocial API Definition (was OpenSocial Developers) group. To post to this group, send email to

[OpenSocial] api for posting to facebook wall

2007-11-13 Thread toxic_brain
hi, I am new to opensocial api. One of our client has two requirements. 1) Show the profile owner's thumbnail image, name and profile link inside the application. I found the apis for this from google's api reference. second is, 2) Show a texarea and a Post button inside the application and on

[OpenSocial] Re: How do I put my application on the orkut's application directory

2007-11-13 Thread Tupshin Harper
Right now only orkut developers are able to install opensocial apps, and its not possible to get them in the directory. -Tupshin On Nov 13, 2007 4:47 PM, codewarrior415 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can install my own application just fine, but how can other users add my application?

[OpenSocial] How to create an activity to notify friends?

2007-11-13 Thread Rohit Kumar
I am creating an application where it would be required to notify a friend about the activity i performed on him. Please let me know how to implement this using activities api. Regards, R. K. www.toostep.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because