Hey Johannes
Thanks a lot for your reply, I've got my head around it now :)
Cheers, Red
On Jul 8, 11:31 am, jfahrenkrug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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