Hey Red,
OK, so it seems to me that you kind of want to implement a container.
The guys from ELC tech are smart, so that might be the way to go. But
to answer your questions, I have to clarify some points:
OpenSocial is a STANDARD, a framework if you want, but it's not a
social network that has users of it's own. There are no "OpenSocial
users". There is no "opensocial cloud" that you can connect to or
something. OpenSocial is a standard that existing (or new) social
networks can choose to implement. It's a standard that gives
developers the ability to rely on a well defined set of APIs to use
and interact with the users and relationships within a social network
that supports the standard.
So you can use OpenSocial to
a) build a social gadget ("SocialReading", iLike....), a small
application that can run within a social network (like orkut or
myspace) that supports opensocial.
b) implement the specification within your own social network to
enable users to run gadgets within your site
so what you probably would do in your case is
- build your micro blog
- provide it with a REST/JSON API that authenticates requests via
OAuth
- build an OpenSocial gadget that runs within orkut or myspace and
that interacts with your app via that rest api
- you will need to somehow map a give myspace/orkut user to one of
your users.
I hope this provided some clarity.
- Johannes
On Jul 3, 7:12 pm, reddavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey
>
> I'm having a couple of problems getting my head around Open Social.
> Here is what I want to do...
>
> At the moment I'm just playing around with OS as we may use it in a
> future app, so I decided to create a Twitter type app but with just
> one word (a nano blog if you will).
>
> It has Posts (activity feed) Users (users) and users can be friends
> (friendships)
>
> 1. How do I make my users part of open social, like how myspace users
> are.
>
> 2. Do I have to use a special way of logging in users (OpenId)
>
> Basically I want my users use the app normally, but have it so people
> can make apps(gadgets?) off our users posts(activity feed).
>
> I've been looking at
> thishttp://www.elctech.com/blog/opensocial-on-rails-finally-1-0
>
> andhttp://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2007/11/7/opensocial-with-ruby-on-rails
>
> Is this the right direction. I don't want users to be able to put
> gadgets on their pages.
>
> Or do I let users log in with their OS u/p (how do I authenticate this
> and keep track of session data?)
>
> Cheers, Red
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