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Google OpenSocial rants

Thursday, February 14, 2008

implementing opensocial means you have a common API to work with…

 and that if i write a set of code for friendster for example, it should still work with myspace, orkut, ning, etc.

 but it doesn’t…

friendster – there is no indication of that friendster is actually implementing the OS api, not a single detail in the developer site.

myspace — gadgets.* calls are not implemented?

orkut — gmodules are often down… and with regards to friends… you can only view ‘whitelisted’ friends.. meaning they also have access to the sand box, ergo, they are developers as well…

ning — yo ning! opensocial 0.7 has been released you still have 0.5.. upgrade please!

hay.. must be stress that i can’t still appreciate opensocial..

or that every container is REALLY implementing their own opensocial… so, what’s the use of having a common api if you have your own implementation of the "common" api..? 

 

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