Also, consider using any number of opensocial based containers geared towards the enterprise:
Jive, IBM, SAP, CIsco, Atlassian offer such capabilities An open source product called Eureka Streams is also in development: http://www.eurekastreams.org/ All allow for gadget based development and standardized REST/RPC apis Regards On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Niels van Dijk <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Sai, > > You can do both but to deploy an opensocial application (which used the > OpenSocial API) you need a so called container. Apache Shindig can be > used to roll your own, but you could also use an existing container like > e.g. Orkut (or one of the many out there). A significant number of > vendor supported applications will also allow you to deploy OpenSocial > based applications > > Cheers, > Niels > > On 11/19/2010 09:45 AM, sgoswam wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Excuse me if this is too immature a question. > > > > We at our company are trying to build a social networking site for > > employees. > > > > I am confused: Will OpenSocial API help me build a social networking > > site OR OpenSocial is used to write apps for social network sites > > like, for example, Superscrap for Orkut is an app running inside > > orkut. > > > > Can anyone help me please? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Sai > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenSocial Application Development" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<opensocial-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en. > > -- Paul Lindner -- [email protected] -- linkedin.com/in/plindner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" 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.
