Would be interested in getting feedback on this nascent spec from mail.ru. WDYT OpenSocial and Activitystreams folks?
Hi Opensocial folks.
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Hi Opensocial folks. As you may have noticed that I'm a bit busy lately. Tonight I'm going to catch up on shindig/spec work.
Thanks to everyone in this community for making Opensocial a success!
Making the Internet Better - Google Edition
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I've been very fortunate in my career. I've had many opportunities and been successful in making the Internet a better place for end-users and developers. From the early days of Gopher to the mainstreaming of open-source at Red Hat to the rise of blogging at Six Apart and on to forming the social web with Opensocial -- I've been a part of many game-changing technologies first hand. It's one of the most satisfying parts of my work.
That's why I'm happy to announce that I'm joining Google today. My gut tells me that this is the right company, the right team, and the right time to contribute to and help define another major change that betters the internet and the entire world.
The decision to work for Google did not come easy. My time at LinkedIn has been truly amazing. The people are smart, the technology is stellar and the opportunities to learn and contribute are limitless. In the past year and half the company doubled in size while the Platform team launched dozens of great new products and enhancements. I'm especially proud of the small parts that I played in helping launch LinkedIn's open developer program and am equally excited about a number of future projects that will launch in the near future. I cherish the friendships and knowledge gained and will miss everyone there greatly.
I look forward to the exciting things that I'll be able to accomplish soon. Here's to the next evolution and revolution!
Google I/O Today
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Speaking at "Meet the Containers", "Shindig 101" and "OpenSocial Fireside Chat".
All at Moscone West, check it out!
OpenSocial Roundup
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At hi5 we've been busy busy busy getting OpenSocial up and running. We released our developer sandbox, and are rapidly implementing features. So check out the following URLs
Also, here's a copy of my response to Tim O'Reilly's blog post:
OpenSocial: It's the data, stupid
Hi folks,
Good comments all around. However I'd like to posit that data access is _not_ the problem. We've had universal standards for years now with little uptake. Tribe.net, Typepad, LiveJournal and others have supported FOAF for many, many years, which encompasses the OpenSocial Person and Friends APIs. Not much has come of that -- there isn't a large enough base there to get people interested.
Now you have a broad industry consensus on a single way to provide all of the above plus activity stream data. You have a rich client platform that allows you to crack open that data and use it in interesting ways, and finally you have a common standard for social networks to interact with each other based on the REST api.
So Patrick's statement at the Web 2.0 Expo is correct, a app running inside a container only allows you to see what that container shows you. However that does not mean that a container could not contain friend references to external social networks via it's own federation mechanism. Movable Type 4.0 has shown that you can support any OpenID login in a single system, there's no reason to believe that social networks could not leverage OAuth to do the same.
And here's a final point to consider -- you have Myspace opening up to developers. That's huge. That alone is going to draw more developer attention to this problem than much of the oh-so academic discussions of the past few years.
I suggest people that _want_ OpenSocial to solve all the social graph ills get involved on the API mailing list and make sure that those elements are addressed as OpenSocial evolves.
There's a tremendous amount of momentum. Let's not waste this chance.