[OpenSocial] Re: why so difficult?

2009-02-13 Thread Gary
Howdy More FC examples!!! WooHoo! I wanted to do something with OpenSocial and OpenId etc. for a while but was not sure where to jump into that ocean. FC was a great way to get my feet wet. I set up a simple page and put some of the examples on and then put a few example gadgets on iGoogle then

[OpenSocial] Re: why so difficult?

2009-02-12 Thread yelims
Hi sorry to appear to be bitchy earlier, i just felt a little deflated with opensocial, your marketing dept sure did a good job :p anyways i think i found what i needed and i described what i needed to do here

[OpenSocial] Re: why so difficult?

2009-02-12 Thread Gary
Great post, Are the 4 options in a faq? Is Friend Connect an example of option 3? and I wasv also feeling somewhat deflated. We have some small social groups, mostly mailing lists with some stuff on web pages and getting them more social sounds like a good idea. I tried Friend Connect and it

[OpenSocial] Re: why so difficult?

2009-02-12 Thread cornelius
Hi lets take the friendconnect route that was mentioned signup + login is very easy just add the widgets (so far so good) but thats where the fun stops since these are done in iframe? theres no way for the underlying php app accessing this info So maybe an article on how to use php5,

[OpenSocial] Re: why so difficult?

2009-02-12 Thread Arne Roomann-Kurrik
I'm happy to hear these comments because I'm currently working on a sample that does just this :) Technically this is possible with the client libraries and some workarounds today, but the FC team is working on making this a lot easier for developers, and we're hoping to have a fully functional