They are ideas with similar goals, but different approaches. The DataPortability project assumes that the model is that each web application has its own site and its own user registry, and thus moving users and friends relationships between them is the most important issue. The group works to promote standards that make this easier.
OpenSocial takes a different approach, which is to abstract out the user and friend registration into an API the applications can call, and obtain the user and friend information from the container. This lets you bring your application to where the users already are, or if you have a big group of users, to offer them new applications you don't have to write. So the two are complementary. On Jan 20, 10:54 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you explain how OpenSocial API and DataPortability > Project(dataportability.org) are related, if any? It seems to me they > have close ideas but as it seems to me rather different technologies. > Is Dataportability related with RestFul API? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
