is there a defined standard/ registration to guarantee a unique id
given a user on a social network.
we are looking at providing a widget that will need to store data for
the user beyond the user persistence data cache, and we will need a
globally unique idea between all users on all networks.
i read somewhere that google recommended userid(s) that look like
{userid} is [A-Za-z0-9]
hi5:{userid}
myspace:{userid}
ning:{userid}
orkut:{userid}
in theory this is grand, but if we are addressing things based on
REST, then
: becomes %3A in the url or
hi5%3A{userid}
which does not seem as clean
if we used +,_,-,. we might have a cleaner global id
http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5+{userid}
http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5.{userid}
http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5-{userid}
http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5_{userid}
what does everyone else think?
it would be nice if openSocial just returned the global id, rather
than a local one, so that widgets and sdks are not adding them.
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