Feb 18 2008

OpenSocial

Tag: widget/plugins — vish @ 1:31 pm

OpenSocial basically consist of a set of 3 APIs, which a site using it has to provide. Developers can use it to access

  • User Information
  • Friends Information
  • Activities on the website.

Those websites which are using OpenSocial would agree to accept the API calls and return appropriate data. OpenSocial uses normal javascript and html, unlike Facebook which has its own markup language (fbml). For the application developers, benefit of the Google approach is that they can use much of their existing front end code and it would be easy for them to just modify the code a bit and get it working with OpenSocial.

You can have a look at it over here :-

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

http://orkut-open-social.blogspot.com/

I just came to know about the youtube APIs google is providing. Its really cool and i’ll try to explore it more to get preview videos for MediaMelon :)

Tags: applications, facebook, fbml, google, OpenSocial, widgets