Xooxia Development

Google has released version 0.5 of the OpenSocial API. It’s basically a standards based method to write gadgets that can be available to any site that implements the API. What this means for developers is that you’re able to write a gadget once and it can be included in various sites that use OpenSocial. I’ve been tinkering with some of the patterns relevant to social networking, even beginning a small project with a co-worker, and have just begun researching OpenSocial.

In a quick example of what OpenSocial can be used to develop, let’s say that you are a member of an online social network. We’ll call it myNet. Within myNet, you have listed about 45 others as ‘friends’ in your network, so you’re able to send/receive messages to each of them, see what news stories they have commented on, see what pages they’ve recently bookmarked, etc. You have quite a bit of functionality available in myNet. The developers within myNet have given you quite a few options that you can customize to meet your needs. However, you’re also a member Read the rest of this entry »

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