Thank you. My next question then is - Is there a unique way to
identify a user across multiple social networks supporting Opensocial?

~ JSON

On Sep 2, 12:55 pm, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi JSON,
>
> The ID presented by OpenSocial is used to uniquely identify a user on
> a particular site, but not across multiple sites. If a user has a
> gadget installed on orkut and iGoogle, that user's ID is guaranteed to
> be unique from the IDs of any other user on each site, but the user's
> ID is likely different on orkut than it is on iGoogle. In fact,
> someone else on orkut might have the same ID as our user does on
> iGoogle.
>
> Best,
> Dan
>
> On Sep 2, 4:01 am, JSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was under the impression that viewer.getId() would give me the
> > opensocial id of the person using iGoogle. But the id that I am
> > getting is different from the id i get inside another opensocial
> > container like Orkut. Please clarify.
>
> > ~ JSON
>
>

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