I read up on shindig and what I got from the documentation etc was that its a framework to allow your site to support open social. Such that you could host your own set of open social applications. So if you wanted to create a new social site and support OpenSocial then shindig would be a great asset to have.
On Oct 2, 3:33 pm, Joana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > about what you were saying about hosting a third party. hmm, let me > know if i am wrong, but isn't Shindig exactly for that? for hosting > open social in a third party platform? > > Please give me some lights around this, because I surely believed that > I could do that with Shindig - having an open social app hosted in my > own server > > On Oct 2, 7:51 pm, Matt Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well lets think about this... > > > > I'm planning on developing my own website that will have a mashup with > > > all the OpenSocial Partners (Hi5, Orkuy, ... ) I would like to show > > > the user some notifications, his profile, friends and some other basic > > > information for each social network. > > > First problem I can see is a user that has only a myspace account or > > an orkut account. How are you going to show a profile for each when > > they don't exist? > > Second issue is the idea of open social being hosted by a third party > > non-open social platform. OpenSocial is a universal API to retrieve > > information about any given account. My understanding of this is that > > you can create web based client applications "gadgets" that will work > > inside the containing platform (hi5, orkut). I very well could be > > wrong about this but it seems hard to believe that they would allow > > access such that a third party site could syndicate the user's > > profile, thus averting the user from said platform's advertisements > > and chief revenue source. > > > On Oct 1, 1:16 pm, Joana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I was wondering if you could help me here! > > > I'm planning on developing my own website that will have a mashup with > > > all the OpenSocial Partners (Hi5, Orkuy, ... ) I would like to show > > > the user some notifications, his profile, friends and some other basic > > > information for each social network. > > > I was thinking of implementing this with OpenSocial API and Shindig on > > > the server side. Can this be done like this? > > > > Thanks a lot for your feedback in advance! I apreciate:) > > > > Cheers, > > > Joana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
