Comments on: Questions about OpenSocial http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/questions-about-opensocial Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Julian Bond http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/questions-about-opensocial#comment-243292 Julian Bond Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:59:20 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/questions-about-opensocial#comment-243292 What a difference 48 hours makes. And I guess I was feeling grumpy then! A common API supported by almost all social networks for writing widgets is a tremendous thing. I'm still guessing (I'm not under the NDA and an insider) that each SN will be able to make it's own decisions about which parts of the API actually return data. So for instance, LinkedIn might give you access to your network's email addresses as they do now with CSV. Xing might choose not to. The API for getting them will still be there, it just won't return any data. So my guess now is that this does not necessarily open up all those social graphs. But it's very likely that you'll be able to put your LinkedIn widget on your Ecademy profile page as well as on your Wordpress blog. And put your Ecademy widget on your LinkedIn profile page (and your MySpace page, and...). What a difference 48 hours makes. And I guess I was feeling grumpy then!

A common API supported by almost all social networks for writing widgets is a tremendous thing.

I’m still guessing (I’m not under the NDA and an insider) that each SN will be able to make it’s own decisions about which parts of the API actually return data. So for instance, LinkedIn might give you access to your network’s email addresses as they do now with CSV. Xing might choose not to. The API for getting them will still be there, it just won’t return any data. So my guess now is that this does not necessarily open up all those social graphs.

But it’s very likely that you’ll be able to put your LinkedIn widget on your Ecademy profile page as well as on your Wordpress blog. And put your Ecademy widget on your LinkedIn profile page (and your MySpace page, and…).

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]]> By: Brian Hayashi http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/questions-about-opensocial#comment-243278 Brian Hayashi Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:19:11 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/questions-about-opensocial#comment-243278 Congratulations on what appears to be a small, yet significant step closer to your vision. Talk about a network of networks -- of networks!!! Congratulations on what appears to be a small, yet significant step closer to your vision. Talk about a network of networks — of networks!!!

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