October 2008

I wonder if OpenSocial might be interesting for us

10 October 2008
Robb Shecter

I can imagine that it’s analogous to how we currently use xml/rss feeds: Whereas rss feeds are componentized content, our own opensocial apps would be componentized pieces of functionality. I’m looking at the getting started page to see what it’d imply.

For writing apps: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/gettingstarted.html

For hosting apps: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/container.html

There are also at least two offers out there for free high-end hosting for any open social or facebook projects that I’ve seen, for example, here are Joyent’s offers. Sun also has offers directly with them.

http://www.joyent.com/developers/facebook

http://www.joyent.com/developers/opensocial/