Thank you for the reply.
On Jan 25, 10:49 pm, "Kevin Marks (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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?
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