Hi JSON, Yes, there is, but it requires you to develop your own identity storage system. Here's one possible way to do it. A user adds your gadget on iGoogle (this is the first time they've installed it). The gadget sends a request to your server, storing their ID, and generating a unique token for the user. The server then returns this token to the user. This user then adds the gadget on orkut, and upon installation, is offered an opportunity to enter their token to identify with the server. If they enter the token they received when they first installed the gadget, you know their ID on iGoogle and can pair this with their ID on orkut.
There are benefits and costs to doing it this way. The user doesn't need to make a new account (good). The user needs to keep track of a unique token (bad). If someone else gets their token, they can pose as the user (very bad). Making a new account (on your server) seems to be the most popular way to manage identity across networks, and offers the greatest security, but also comes at the greatest cost to user convenience. Best, Dan On Sep 2, 12:23 pm, JSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
