[OpenSocial] Preview release of the OpenSocial Dev App

2008-10-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi, I'm currently working on the OpenSocial Dev App, which is a tool for prototyping and debugging JavaScript code against a live container environment. Its aim is to provide a tool to ease the learning curve of developers unfamiliar with the JavaScript APIs, as well as give experienced develope

[OpenSocial] Re: Where is the error ??

2008-07-15 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Pulkit, There's a few problems with your code. First, you start off your javascript like this:

[OpenSocial] Re: Should Person.getId() return a string that's unique across all social networks?

2008-07-14 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Alex, The spec says that IDs must be unique to a container, but this means that collisions are certainly possible. The spec advises to prefix IDs with the name of the container and a colon if you need a GUID. For example, if the user with ID 12345 on hi5 is different from the user 12345 o

[OpenSocial] Re: Opensocial Authorization

2008-07-14 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Sambi, Were you using the orkut sandbox? Do you see any error messages in the AppEngine logs indicating that something is failing? Did you copy the pycrypto and OAuth libraries to your project? ~Arne On Jul 14, 10:58 am, Sambi Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am planning

[OpenSocial] Re: Improve application performance

2008-07-14 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
I can't help but notice the similarities between that article and this one: http://www.webperformanceinc.com/library/reports/AjaxBandwidth/index.html If you're going to repost content on your blog, it would be considerate to post a citation and a link back to the blog where the content was origin

[OpenSocial] Re: Discovery RESTful + XRDS

2008-07-14 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
e: > It's implemented RESTful in sandbox.orkut.com? > > I'm trying to use de RESTful spec on orkut.... > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) < > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you explain what you're

[OpenSocial] Re: Update on error.

2008-07-14 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Replied in the other thread. Closing this one. ~Arne On Jul 12, 12:41 am, nitinkcv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry about this. This is related to the thread > athttp://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api/browse_thread/thread/68... > > Thanks, > Nitin --~--~-~--~~

[OpenSocial] Re: Bug in gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, populateWeatherinfo, params) ??

2008-07-14 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Nitin, I'm not really sure why you're getting the Java error - there are certainly no Java components running client-side on orkut, so I think that this just has something to do with the Firebug debugger, rather than being an OpenSocial problem. Since it looks like you're just appending

[OpenSocial] Re: Discovery RESTful + XRDS

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Can you explain what you're trying to do? Currently, I'm not aware of any containers that have fully launched XRDS or a RESTful implementation. ~Arne On Jul 10, 12:10 pm, frkr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone can help me to make or give me a Draft to use RESTful and > XRDS? > > -- I can't

[OpenSocial] Re: Hey Arne

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Pulkit, The OpenSocial Developer's Guide shows how to post activities. You can view this section here: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/devguide.html#Activities Hope this helps, ~Arne On Jul 10, 5:48 am, Pulkit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was searching fo rthe a

[OpenSocial] Re: Notification workflow and wmode="window" flash embeds

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Thanks for posting in the orkut forum. Hopefully this is just a simple CSS or DOM fix. ~Arne On Jul 11, 2:21 pm, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin, That's exactly correct. MySpace does exactly this with their > notification confirmation workflow, and it works fine with our > application

[OpenSocial] Re: Is there a way to iterate the collections object?

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Harsha, The collection object doesn't contain the entire friends list, but you can use the FIRST parameter to determine where the request should start from. For example, if a user has more than 100 friends, you can request FIRST = 0 and MAX = 100 to get the first hundred, then send anothe

[OpenSocial] Re: orkut sandbox not working

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This forum is for discussing OpenSocial application development, and not intended for orkut specific questions. Please post in the orkut developer forum, where you will be able to get a detailed response: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut Thanks, ~Arne On Jul 11, 4:06 am, "Tim do

[OpenSocial] Re: Unable to Send any Scrap from Orkut

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This forum is for discussing OpenSocial application development, and not intended for orkut specific features like scraps. Please post in the orkut developer forum, where you will be able to get a detailed response to your question: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut Thanks, ~Arne

[OpenSocial] Re: Bug in gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, populateWeatherinfo, params) ??

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Can you list or give a link to the code that is causing this error? Thanks ~Arne On Jul 11, 6:20 am, NITIN KISHEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to use the Google weather API, but am stuck up with it. > > The gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, populateWeatherinfo, params)  works wel

[OpenSocial] Re: is it true that somebody can view my locked scrap book using sandbox account??

2008-07-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This question has nothing to do with OpenSocial's RESTful specification. Scraps are not part of the OpenSocial API, and orkut has not made access to scraps available as an extension to OpenSocial. For questions specific to the orkut platform, please use the orkut developer discussion forum here:

[OpenSocial] Re: Status of application submitted to orkut

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Jigar, For orkut directory questions, please email opensocial-app- [EMAIL PROTECTED] For future orkut related questions, please post to http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut - you'll be able to get orkut specific help there. ~Arne On Jul 9, 7:55 am, Jigar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[OpenSocial] Re: Is this possible ?

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Currently this isn't really that possible with the 0.7 version of OpenSocial, but 0.8 will have support for a RESTful API, which you can query from a PHP server. When that launches, there'll be tutorials available on code.google.com to show how to use this functionality in languages like PHP. Yo

[OpenSocial] Re: Friend Connect Access

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Sadly, Friend Connect isn't included in orkut opening up access to apps. I've talked to the Friend Connect folks and they said that when they're ready to start giving access to people, that they'll start granting access to people on the wait list, so you should get notice. Until then, keep an eye

[OpenSocial] Re: Doubt about the AppID

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Yes, it is the same value in the sandbox as it is on www. In the future, if you have any more questions about the orkut platform, you should check out the orkut help group located here: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut - They will be able to give you more specific information about

[OpenSocial] Re: Doubt about the AppID

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Yes, it is the same value in the sandbox as it is on www. In the future, if you have any more questions about the orkut platform, you should check out the orkut help group located here: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut - They will be able to give you more specific information about

[OpenSocial] Re: Retrieving Timestamp from container

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
There's not really a way to do this without fetching the timestamp from a remote server. How does fetching the timestamp from your own server slow down the system? You could just have the following in a file called timestamp.php: And use makeRequest to get this value, which should be very lit

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial documentation

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi, We do plan on translating more of our articles to other languages. For example, the Developer's Guide (http://code.google.com/intl/ru/ apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/devguide.html) is available in Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese. I don't see anything translated to Russian yet, but R

[OpenSocial] Re: Activity Updates

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Tushar, I think this was a problem with the sandbox, but has been fixed, since I was just able to add an activity to my stream. Can you try again and let me know if it works? Thanks, ~Arne On Jul 1, 10:28 pm, "Tushar Vaghela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was working on a app an

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial developer survey

2008-07-09 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi tandonakhil, Sorry for responding to this a bit late. Make sure you're logged into orkut with the same email address that was approved for sandbox access. If you don't see the "Or, add an application directly by its url" input box on this page: http://sandbox.orkut.com/MyApps.aspx then ple

[OpenSocial] Re: Passing arrays in req.newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest

2008-07-03 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Nitin, Everything you currently store in AppData needs to be in a string. However, you can convert an array to a string by calling gadgets.json.stringify(passArray); When you retrieve data stored like this, convert it back to an array by calling: gadgets.json.parse(gadgets.util.unescapeStr

[OpenSocial] Orkut is rolling OpenSocial apps out to ALL users starting July 10

2008-07-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
It's been a long time coming, but orkut is finally enabling OpenSocial applications for the remainder of its userbase. This rollout will start on July 10 and last a couple of days. If you're currently developing for the orkut OpenSocial platform, please check out this blog post for more informat

[OpenSocial] Re: Display time in Orkut after submission my App

2008-06-30 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Janardhan, You should check the orkut developer google group for answers to orkut-specific questions. Please check it out here http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut ~Arne On Jun 29, 11:50 pm, Janardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I create one gadget and submitted successfully

[OpenSocial] Re: Forcing Cache Reload

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Duke, Orkut has changed its cache implementation to respect cache headers sent by your server, meaning you effectively have control over how often your files are fetched from your server. From what I hear, they are working on a way to trigger the refresh of an application in the cache, but

[OpenSocial] Re: HELP! ' iterating id'

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Prithvi, It looks like your code has a typo. Does changing the line that reads increment="ifriends"+i; to increment="friends"+i; make any difference? ~Arne On Jun 26, 2:03 am, Prithvi Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope! i tried that. The alert is also not working. Its not at all > disp

[OpenSocial] Re: Application submission error

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Steve, If you continue having this problem, then please report it in the orkut developer forum here: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut - someone from the orkut team should be able to give you specific information about the status of the sandbox. Thanks, ~Arne --~--~-

[OpenSocial] Re: Friend Connect Seems to Be Broken

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Pacuare, Thanks for the error report, I think this is an OK place to post this kind of stuff until a dedicated Friend Connect support channel opens up. I wasn't able to reproduce this error, though. Maybe this was a sporadic issue? Do you still see this problem? Thanks, ~Arne On Jun

[OpenSocial] Re: Help with Array !!!

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
I see a lot of JavaScript errors in this code. For example, thefield[thefield.length] will never return anything but undefined since you are indexing past the end of the array. What are you trying to do with this code? It would be easier to debug if you could explain what you're trying to do.

[OpenSocial] Re: pls help......very urg

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Harikrishnan, Where are you running your gadget? ~Arne On Jun 23, 9:35 pm, Harikrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hai All > > Am new in open social ...Hw can we implement the all java > scripts(message..mail.. etc  java scripyts) in our > application...am a asp.net

[OpenSocial] Re: Redirecting to a html page on a xml file.

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Do you want to post a link to your code? Maybe someone can figure out what is keeping it from working in Firefox. ~Arne On Jun 23, 4:18 pm, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aw, I just figured out my app runs perfectly on IE, but it won´t work > in FireFox! > I guess thats probably not my fau

[OpenSocial] Re: Passing Parameters while installing application

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Prafulla, Sorry, currently the spec doesn't allow for this. Can you describe what you're trying to do? There might be other workarounds. ~Arne On Jun 23, 6:45 am, prafulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Could I please know if it is possible to pass parameters to an > application

[OpenSocial] Re: Getting permission denied error.

2008-06-29 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Krishna, For security purposes, gadgets are designed to run in different domains than the container, which means that your browser will not allow javascript calls between the two iframes. Your best bet is to generate your serverside code in PHP and then use gadgets.io.makeRequest to pull t

[OpenSocial] Re: Problem with Persistent Data

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
I see a slight problem where you're assigning the value of the input to a variable named "destination" and then referring to it later as "destino". I modified your code a bit to write and read the value of the data you are storing. You should see an alert box containing a json string representin

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial API error

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
For orkut-related issues, you should post in the orkut OpenSocial group: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut When you post there, please include a link to the code you're running so that we can try and track down the error. Thanks! ~Arne On Jun 19, 1:52 am, prafulla <[EMAIL PROTECT

[OpenSocial] Re: Friends not appearing

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Can you give more information? Are you getting any errors? Which browser are you using? Can you link to the XML file you're installing? Thanks, ~Arne On Jun 18, 11:02 am, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've read up on getting opensocial to display friends in a gadget, but > I

[OpenSocial] Re: Working with the Persistence API

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Prafulla, 1.) Nothing will come back, so you need to check for the existence of the key on the object that is returned. 2.) Looks like a bug. Please star http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/issues/detail?id=152 to get notifications about fixes or updates for this problem. H

[OpenSocial] Re: freinds list

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Gaurav, This article shows how to turn off this caching while developing your application: http://code.google.com/apis/orkut/docs/orkutdevguide.html#bpc Hope this helps, ~Arne On Jun 17, 6:06 am, Gaurav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I m not able to get the list of all my freinds lis

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial.DataRequest.PeopleRequestFields

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Henning, Orkut uses a zero-based approach but I don't think the spec defines which method to use. FilterType.ALL is defined as the default filter in the spec, so you can think of it as no filtering of results. However, requests with ALL are still subject to FIRST and MAX limitations, eve

[OpenSocial] Re: Friends on my Gadget

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Well, you won't be able to track users if they don't actually load your gadget, but I've been having some success using Google Analytics for some of my applications http://www.google.com/analytics/ to get some idea of how long people use my app and how many people are visiting it. I haven't actua

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial Coding Practices

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This is really great advice. For a large scale app, you're going to want to have some sort of build process that optimizes your javascript and concatenates files, so you'll be able to structure your project logically and then output a highly compressed single file for production. You can also pu

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial & Facebook Meet, Bangalore

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Cool! Be sure to take pictures of the event- I'm interested in seeing how it turns out. ~Arne On Jun 17, 2:25 am, Aakash Bapna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be there too...Thanks ~Aakashhttp://aakash-bapna.blogspot.com > > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:51:04 +0530From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMA

[OpenSocial] Re: App does not appear in directory

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This forum isn't orkut specific, so questions about the orkut directory don't really belong here. Please forward any questions about the orkut directory to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you should get an answer. The orkut review process is pretty extensive. You'll get feedback when the team reviews you

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial use limits questions.

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Grigory, No, OpenSocial is just an API and doesn't enforce any sort of policies against applications written on this platform. I've seen gadgets integrate with PayPal and Google Checkout, for example. However, some containers may have specific rules against embedding this kind of functio

[OpenSocial] Re: Can we create a back end for Gadget

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Yes, you can make a backend for a gadget. This is actually how most of the popular OpenSocial applications work - they use signed makeRequest calls to communicate data back to their servers, where they are able to do things like send email and access databases. We've written an article about cre

[OpenSocial] Re: making invisible account on logging

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This group is meant for discussing OpenSocial application development and isn't really appropriate for non-OpenSocial orkut-specific help. You should post your question in the official orkut help group, which is located here: http://groups.google.com/group/orkut-help Thanks, ~Arne On Jun 16, 1:

[OpenSocial] Re: orkut persistent data app question

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Sure, just give them the URL of the application and make sure it has a "UID" parameter on it. For example, here's an application I wrote running on my own orkut profile: http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?uid=3614003783765785339&appId=118738807794 Note that you can see my profile picture

[OpenSocial] Re: HELP.....In URGENT basis

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Aakash, thanks for taking the time to go over this! However, he's using the GGE, which doesn't have access to the gadgets.* functions yet, so the calls should be replaced with the old _IG_GetCachedUrl call. I've made the modifications and posted them here: http://opensocial.pastebin.com/f40202fb

[OpenSocial] Re: Fetching External Content - Text

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Guillaume, Which container are you trying to install the gadget on? It looks like you might be trying to use iGoogle, which hasn't switched over to the new gadgets.* methods. If this is true, you can request access to the iGoogle sandbox at http://www.google.com/ig/sandbox, where this cod

[OpenSocial] Re: fetching xml and using dom data. (orkut application)

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Honestly, I don't find much use in fetching items as DOM. You can just as easily fetch text and assign it to innerHTML (as long as the text is trusted not to be malicious!) of a parent element. However, you can still use getElementsByTagName on a DOM request. I just executed the following in or

[OpenSocial] Re: Help !!!

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
First, change the line that reads: req.send(handleRequestMyData); to req.send(handleRequestTarefa); Also change doSomethingWithMyData(mydata.getData()); to doSomethingWithTarefa(mydata.getData()); Your application also can't set data for the OWNER. You should change req.add(req.newUpdatePers

[OpenSocial] Re: Data Persistent, as read data?

2008-06-19 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This code looks pretty good, but you're not setting any AppData in this gadget, so there won't be any available in doSomethingWithMyData (causes a JavaScript error for me). If you modify the gadget to set data first, then it should work. ~Arne On Jun 13, 2:09 pm, Vinicius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[OpenSocial] OpenSocial developer survey

2008-06-10 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi everyone, We're looking for feedback on the current state of the OpenSocial ecosystem. If you've done any development with OpenSocial (it doesn't matter which container), we've got a quick survey that we'd like you to fill out to help us determine where we need to focus our attention, as well

[OpenSocial] Looking for externally submitted articles and blogposts for code.google.com

2008-06-05 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Have you written an article or a blogpost about OpenSocial that you would like to get out to a wider audience? Do you have an idea for documentation that you would like to see published on code.google.com? The OpenSocial team at Google is interested in accepting submissions for articles and blog

[OpenSocial] Re: Can we access our local SQL Server 2005 data using Open Social API's?

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Yes, you should structure your application to use makeRequest to communicate with your backend server, which has access to your database. As an alternative, once containers start supporting OpenSocial 0.8, you will be able to make requests against the API from your own server, without needing to

[OpenSocial] Re: framework caching

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
That's pretty cool (I didn't even realize that we offered this, shows how many things Google is working on). Gadget developers should certainly take advantage of this wherever possible. Latency is a big issue for many apps, particularly apps that use big JS libraries like Prototype, and this wil

[OpenSocial] Re: how to add Google Maps to hi5

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
It looks like your url has incorrectly encoded & characters (& instead of &), so http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=xx should really look like http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=xx Since this is more of a maps question, if changing this doesn't work, you may want to

[OpenSocial] Re: Is it possible to see the code of an app?

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Kogan, Each application runs in its own element. If you look at the address of this iframe, you'll see something like: http://be4kttao2qn5upe307a92qe91p3c1b6b.sandbox.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/samples/coderunner/trunk/coderunner.xml

[OpenSocial] Re: Insert the result of a DOM makeRequest in a DIV

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
First, the content you're requesting has to be valid XML or else DOM will not parse the document correctly. This means that HTML pages won't work, but valid XHTML pages will be fine. For an example, I used http://www.alistapart.com/ as a test. If obj.data actually has data in it, then the data

[OpenSocial] Re: Information sharing

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi David, These are some great questions. Let me try and address them one by one: 1.) Currently, OpenSocial is just an API that allows developers to build applications on compliant social networks. However, with the recent release of version 0.8 we've added support for a REST-based server-t

[OpenSocial] Re: my open social generator tool.

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
I like this project more every time I take a look over it. Would you like to write a blog post or article with some simple examples on what it does and how to get started? We could probably put a guest post up on opensocialapis.blogspot.com or even a guest article on code.google.com if you're in

[OpenSocial] Re: Gadgets used by the user

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Amit, This currently isn't possible through the API, sorry. Version 0.8 will have support for a HAS_APP field on the user object which will let you know whether they have the current application installed, though. I don't think there are any plans to be able to query for which apps a user

[OpenSocial] Re: Error Submitting a New Application (Please Help)

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
settings that > >> >> are required to draw the app. it would really be great as we solve > >> >> problems and create work around, to again have one place to post to, > >> >> instead of an email list, that even though is indexed, it is not > >>

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial Summit in Mountain View, CA on May 14 - Now with Video!

2008-05-22 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3MtrxY4j_c Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/chanezon/OpenSocialSummitAtGoogleMay14th2008# http://picasaweb.google.com/APIjason/OpenSocialSummit5_14# Enjoy! ~Arne On May 20, 10:26 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry

[OpenSocial] Re: opensocial is not defined

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
@Justin - Sorry about the disrespectful response to your email (I've banned that user and removed his post). This is great advice. @[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Which container are you running your application in? If you're using a tool like the Google Gadget Editor's preview mode, you won't be able to

[OpenSocial] Re: Feedback appreciated

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Vijay, You may get a better response from orkut developers. Check out the orkut group for orkut-related topics: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut ~Arne On May 19, 8:33 pm, "Vijay Gaur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would appreciate if my fellow developers could

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial: FotoFlexer

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Can you elaborate on how you want to add gadgets to your site? Do you want to become a full OpenSocial container, or use FriendConnect to put gadgets on your web page? Thanks, ~Arne On May 19, 9:52 pm, coe15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im new here, just want to ask about OpenSocial security m

[OpenSocial] Re: orkut app directory submission error

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This group is for discussions about the OpenSocial API and not container-specific questions. If you have any future questions about orkut, please use the http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut group to get orkut-specific help. Thanks, ~Arne On May 19, 10:49 pm, sunnydiv <[EMAIL PROTEC

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial Summit in Mountain View, CA on May 14

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
the > midwest, so we can contribute too. > > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In case you missed it, we're hosting an OpenSocial Summit next > > Wednesday, May 14

[OpenSocial] Re: Error in http://sandbox.orkut.com/AppDirectorySubmit.aspx.

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
I'm happy to hear that this problem is resolved, but this group is for general OpenSocial development questions, not site specific discussions. For questions about the orkut container, please check out http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut Thanks, ~Arne On May 19, 10:50 pm, sunnydiv

[OpenSocial] Re: Picture comments

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Which container are you talking about? This group is for discussing OpenSocial development in general, not specific to any one site. You can view http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial for a list of forums for specific OpenSocial containers if you want to leave feedback in the appropriate for

[OpenSocial] Re: new topic

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Closing this topic. Please don't spam the group with test posts. ~Arne On May 20, 1:43 am, Elitmus_ppl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is my mesge --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Appl

[OpenSocial] Re: How to delete persistent data?

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Anthony is correct - a new improvement in 0.8 is the ability to explicitly delete information from app data. For 0.7, some containers have provided workarounds for this limitation, usually just deleting any keys that you set to a value of null. Elitmus_ppl, please check out http://groups.google.

[OpenSocial] Re: Error Submitting a New Application (Please Help)

2008-05-20 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Anuj, I'm sorry to hear that you don't find the OpenSocial documentation unfriendly to developers. Can you list the resources you used and what parts you found unfriendly? We try to improve our documentation over time and your feedback would be valuable. With regard to your application

[OpenSocial] OpenSocial Summit in Mountain View, CA on May 14

2008-05-06 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
In case you missed it, we're hosting an OpenSocial Summit next Wednesday, May 14th, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. You can see our announcement about this here: http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/05/opensocial-summit-may-14th-at.html We'll be covering the recent additions to versio

[OpenSocial] App Engine Hackathons in SF and NY

2008-04-24 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi everyone, Google is hosting two hackathons on Google App Engine -- our new application hosting service: http://code.google.com/appengine/ There's a lot of potential for hosting OpenSocial applications on App Engine, so if you've been looking for a free, scalable service to host an application

[OpenSocial] Announcing an OpenSocial hackathon -- London, England, April 6th, 2008

2008-04-01 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Any developers from London here? Google is hosting a hackathon in your area: http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/opensocial-hackathon-in-london-6th-of.html Coming up this Sunday, April 6th, OpenSocial developers are invited to meet in London and hack away. Googlers will be on hand to work

[OpenSocial] Re: add widget buttons

2008-03-04 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Haha, my email took a while to show up ;) ~Arne On Mar 4, 5:14 pm, Dustin Jorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arne did this with coderunner by linking to the app page on Orkut. > > Here's an example:http://graargh.returnstrue.com/coderunner/. > > jdavid.net wrote: > > has anyone figured out a way

[OpenSocial] Re: errors with v0.7

2008-02-11 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Rush, It sounds like you're having a problem with a specific container, probably Orkut. Could you please post your issue in the Orkut Container forum located here: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/topics When you post there, it would be very helpful if you could include

[OpenSocial] Re: Storing and retrieving per-app and per-app-per-user data

2008-01-30 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi, per-app is data that is available to all users of an application. This requirement is being removed for 0.7 of the API, so I wouldn't worry about it. per-app-per-user is data that individual users of applications have access to. You can think of this as user preferences, or other user-

[OpenSocial] Re: "OpenSocial JavaScript Feature Priority List" updated 1/9/2008

2008-01-30 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
The 0.7 specification supports this functionality. From the release notes: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/releasenotes.html "Support for viral growth. Two new methods allow your application to send messages on behalf of a user. You can invite a user's friends to install your applica

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial v0.7 Released!

2008-01-30 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Reinoud, Thanks! The 0.7 spec makes the following statement about user IDs: "One of the pieces of data that is always returned with a Person object is the user's ID. The user ID must be alphanumeric (A-Za-z0-9) and must uniquely identify the user in a container. This standardization is

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial v0.7 Released!

2008-01-30 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi JevS, newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest is a Person App Data request (not Global App Data or Instance App Data). It is still in the 0.7 spec: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/reference/opensocial.DataRequest.html#newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest There were other methods that mo

[OpenSocial] Re: Where's my 'Write once, run anywhere'?

2008-01-28 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Shashi, Please try to run the code in the "How To Build Your First Social Gadget" article available here: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/firstgadget/firstgadget-0.6.html. This example shows fetching a list of the viewer's friends. ~Arne On Jan 19, 12:33 am, "[EMAIL PROT

[OpenSocial] Re: How to call variable from a servlet (its not json)

2008-01-28 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi anupama, It sounds like you are trying to return data from an opensocial.makeRequest() call to your own server. You can check out this page: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial/web/validating-signed-requests-from-orkut which shows some sample code for the makeRequest() call. If you

[OpenSocial] Re: How to use the method makeRequest?

2008-01-28 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
We've posted an example of making signed requests here: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial/web/validating-signed-requests-from-orkut It includes a section on how to obtain the public key for Orkut. @Aakash, I hadn't noticed the ID discrepancy. I've notified the Orkut engineers. ~Arne

[OpenSocial] Re: how can I retrieve friend's email-ID in OpenSocial API?

2008-01-28 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
; Is it mean they have access for databases of corresponding sites to > fetch data ? > Is there any other technique to fetch data from servers of given > emailid i? > Please reply! > > On Jan 16, 12:46 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[OpenSocial] Re: Where is the Orkut application directory

2008-01-15 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
man < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, but how do you get your application listed in this directory for others > to see?On Dec 5 2007, 11:51 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi Furthest,>>This is available > athttp://sandbox

[OpenSocial] Re: how can I retrieve friend's email-ID in OpenSocial API?

2008-01-15 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
le doing gr8 job on opensocial > (Google). > friendfeed.com giving all information about the email id. How it is > possible to them with opensocial? > Can you please give a thought about this. How these people can do > this. > > Thanks > > On Dec 28 2007, 12:53 am, "Arn

[OpenSocial] Re: how can I retrieve friend's email-ID in OpenSocial API?

2008-01-15 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
e, > > what about birth dates, or city? is it also considered as completely private > information? Is there different layers of privacy the containers can set up? > > Thanks, Cédric. > > On Dec 27, 2007 8:53 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote

[OpenSocial] Re: Open Social Generator

2008-01-15 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hey, this looks pretty interesting. Can you post some sample code to show how it works? ~Arne On Jan 13, 5:42 am, "Falcão" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I started a project of a tool build complex OpenSocial applications. > > Some features: > - build javascript code from html templa

[OpenSocial] Re: "OpenSocial JavaScript Feature Priority List" updated 1/9/2008

2008-01-15 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hey Akash, The request signing you're talking about is already part of the 0.6 spec. The current priority list is for version 0.7 features. ~Arne On Jan 11, 7:37 am, Aakash Bapna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also in this thread you were talking about sending the owner and viewer id's > b

[OpenSocial] Re: javascript error

2008-01-10 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Raja, Which sample application are you trying to run? The 0.6 samples currently do not run on Orkut - try the 0.5 version ones to see if they work. ~Arne On Jan 9, 8:34 pm, RAJA SEKHAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hai To every one > > when i run the opensocial sample application on or

[OpenSocial] Re: tutorial-0.6

2008-01-10 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Jonathan, Check out "How To Build Your First Social Gadget". It's available at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/firstgadget/firstgadget-0.6.html Hope this helps, ~Arne On Jan 10, 6:34 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Ref:http://code.google.com

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial API v0.6 Released!

2008-01-10 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
Hi Newton, In order to be OpenSocial compliant, you need to parse the gadget module spec. See http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/spec-0.6.html#compliance for more information. Depending on what you're trying to do, it should be possible to create an adapter that wraps this into the

[OpenSocial] Re: OpenSocial API v0.6 Released!

2008-01-10 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
This issue has been moved up in priority. See the thread at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api/browse_thread/thread/4ca13b51a3c105e8/b704fd99aa5ce4fe#b704fd99aa5ce4fe for more information. ~Arne On Jan 9, 1:20 pm, Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Priority 3 "A standardized way t

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