For some strange reason, I think this is an excellent idea :-)
Of these, which has the easiest to integrate:
http://www.google.com/friendconnect/
http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php
http://developer.myspace.com/Community/blogs/devteam/archive/2008/12/09/introducing-the-myspace-open-platform-and-myspaceid.aspx
Friendconnect has always looked most interesting of the lot, since it will
give you a variety of customizable friendconnect "widgets" . Once you
request and customize a particular instance, google generates the code and
presents it in a scrollable textarea.
Reusing the framework of one of Xwiki's existing panels is a good way to
wrap Google Friendconnect socialnetworking into an Xwiki site. You'd
basically take the code and paste it into the panel document. Then layout
one or more of the google panels into the "sidebars" in Xwiki. This permits
xwiki to layout the friendconnect panels as if they were :"one of it's own."
Probably the easiest first-experiment would be to take an existing panel
that you probably don't use, like /xwiki/bin/inline/Panels/Welcome; as
'Admin' click "edit" and then paste in the google code between
#panelheader("Welcome") and #panelfooter(). Later, create more via
http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Panels/CreatePanel ...
This video shows what happens on the google-side:
http://www.youtube.com/v/N94s7ix0JPo&hl=en&autoplay=1
I haven't looked at friendconnect's OpenID implementation so I don't know
how it would coexist or overlap w/ Xwiki's auth.
I'd assume you'd create an implementation per
http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/user/api/XWikiAuthService.javaand
follow instructions in
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HCustomAuthentication
You mentioned GSOC 2008 and
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport...
what is the status of any code completed to date?
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Thilina Buddhika <thilin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a growing interest on XWiki and willing to take part in its
> development. I am also planning to apply for GSoC 2009 (yet to be
> announced)
> and I have realised that XWiki is a challenging and promising open source
> project for GSoC 2009.
>
> When watching the developer list, I found this mail by Niels Mayer with the
> subject,* "Social Networking via OpenID support in Xwiki?"*. And It looks
> like an intersting idea. I also found that there was a GSoC 2008 project
> related to this idea [1]. So is it possible to continue this project
> further
> ?
>
> Other than the above idea, I would like to know the other possible project
> ideas for GSoC 2009. If it is too early I am posting about this, then lets
> leave it for the next couple of weeks. Anyway I am trying to get
> familiarized with Xwiki until the GSoC 2009 is announced.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> best regards,
> / thilina
>
> [1] -
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport
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