Hi,
Looks like there are some misconceptions about OpenSocial on this thread.
The APIs provide no less than three methods for communicating between users
of social networks:
<static> requestCreateActivity(activity, priority, opt_callback)
Takes an activity and tries to create it, without waiting for the
operation to complete.
<static> requestSendMessage(recipients, message, opt_callback, opt_params)
Requests the container to send a specific message to the specified
users.
<static> requestShareApp(recipients, reason, opt_callback, opt_params)
Requests the container to share this gadget with the specified users.
the requestSendMessage supports the following message types:
Class opensocial.Message.Type
<static> object EMAIL
An email.
<static> object NOTIFICATION
A short private message.
<static> object PRIVATE_MESSAGE
A message to a specific user that can be seen only by that user.
<static> object PUBLIC_MESSAGE
A message to a specific user that can be seen by more than that user.
So the API doesn't limit what you can do in terms of sending messages.
However, it is up to each container to decide which portions of the
messaging APIs to support. For example, orkut supports creating activities
and sending email messages, but not requestShareApp calls. If the container
you're developing on doesn't support the type of call you want to make,
please contact their developer support team and request it! If there's
functionality you would like to see that's missing from the API, please go
to the specification discussion group and propose it:
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/topics
Hope this clears things up a bit,
~Arne
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> B"H
>
> I am coming from facebook where they built two system just for this
> kind of comunication.
>
> That is the central thread of the social aspects of the applications.
>
> How OpenSocial thinks they are social at all without those methods of
> comunication has astounded me.
>
> So lets get this thread full of ideas of what open social actualy
> helps in the way of viral (comunity) programming, starting with a way
> to do an action in a gadget that actualy comunicates (socializes) with
> a friends.
>
> On Sep 18, 1:14 pm, Matt Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sounds like a very good idea, that sort of viral propogation can be
> > very...contagious ;-)
> >
> > Lets brainstorm a bit here, so you have an application and you send an
> > invite to a friend, via email or via a message through orkut? Sending
> > a request via email would be simple enough if the address was
> > available. I don't believe the OpenSocial API supports any sort of
> > messaging to their respective hosting platforms, such as orkut or
> > myspace but interfacing with the existing API would be possible, you'd
> > need a unique identifier for the given friend though.
> >
> > On Sep 18, 5:47 am, ARUP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I am new here now making orkut application i want to develop a feature
> > > to send add request(add my application) to my friends.
> > > can you help me how can i do that?
> >
> > > Thanks & Regards
> >
> > > Arup- Hide quoted text -
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> >
>
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