Aakash Bapna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:15:29 >No for both with current API functions.. >and as OpenSocial is not for orkut only, i doubt the send message >through APIs will be introduced..
This seems backwards to me. Virtually every website with social network functions has a mechanism to message a single person. OpenSocial is intended to be a set of common APIs used across lots of SN websites. So OpenSocial should provide API definitions for send message. In fact if a function is common, but not available on Orkut, then the APIs should support it as well. A good example of that is "Status" or as Twitter might call it "What are you doing now". Orkut doesn't have this (although Jaiku, owned by Google, does) But Facebook, MySpace, and many others do. We mustn't let OpenSocial be "What Orkut does". And we mustn't let OpenSocial be limited and missing function because "Orkut doesn't have that function". -- Julian Bond E&MSN: julian_bond at voidstar.com M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ skype:julian.bond?chat Temporarily Out Of Order --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial API Definition" 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/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
