I've been doing a lot of research and I've run into the same problem as Stefano. It's to the point where I am having a hard time testing our set-up to the full extent because there are no applications that really make use of them. Has anyone found a solution to this?
Best, Charlotte On Jun 14, 1:56 pm, Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > Introducing myself, i'm Stefano Pochet, production manager of Nealab > Technologies, italian company that managewww.freebar.it, the biggest > social network made in Italy with half million users. > Last week we correctly installed shindig and we correctly implemented > the container, connecting Shindig to our social network data and > implementing the canvas view, the application gallery and an xml > fetcher to simply load new applications. > Then we tested the system by uploading some applications from: > - OpenSocial directoryhttp://www.opensocialdirectory.org/ > - Ning open social directoryhttp://opensocial.ning.com/ > - Hi5 > - Orkut > And we realized that the only applications working are the ones who > don't use social data. > All the applications using social data developed till now are built > for a specific container and they don't work, or they don't allow > access, to others containers(we also tested that these applications > don't work in partuza live examplehttp://partuza.us.chabotc.com/). > We have also investigated the code of some OpenSocial applications > realizing that some applications explicitly block access from other > containers (for example some requires "hi5 feature") and some others > give a "bad request" error to any proxy call when the request comes > from a different container. > > The feeling is that the main part of the OpenSocial applications > developed till now are written for a specific container. > For this reason we have currently abandoned the OpenSocial container > project and we believe that smaller social networks like freebar.it > (networks that don't have a developers community and don't have > numbers to attract new developers) have to wait some months, while > hundreds of new applications OpenSocial fully compliant will be > released, to think about the release of a social network container. > Please correct us if you think that our opinion is not correct :) > > If you would like to have a visit to our OpenSocial container feel > free to directly contact me at stefano.pochet[AT]nealab.it ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" 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-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
