[OpenSocial] Re: integrate opensocial profiles in my existing page - Kevin Marks - com.googlegroups.opensocial-api

7 messages in com.googlegroups.opensocial-api[OpenSocial] Re: integrate opensocial...

From	Sent On	Attachments
brian	21 May 2008 16:09
Balaji Srinivasan	21 May 2008 20:23
brian	22 May 2008 10:50
Luciano Ricardi	27 May 2008 06:01
naveen06	27 May 2008 11:36
Lars	27 May 2008 16:19
Kevin Marks	24 Jul 2008 23:00

Subject:	[OpenSocial] Re: integrate opensocial profiles in my existing page
From:	Kevin Marks (kevi...@gmail.com)
Date:	07/24/2008 11:00:09 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.opensocial-api

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Lars <lars...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm very interested in this topic and wonder if I could get some more information about it. I have an idea about an application and I'm trying to find out how to utilize Opensocial and/or FriendConnect for that. Ideally my application would have it's own website but in some or the other way socialize with other social networks (that's the goal). What I've not got a good understanding of yet is how the interaction can happen.

Using FriendConnect can I have access to the user's id so I can store information in relation to the user (guest) on my own server?

The user will have a site specific ID for your site that any OpenSocial applications can see, and can communicate with servers, so you coudl build an OpenSocial gadget to do this.

Do I get information about the user's login, i.e. if he got authenticated or not?

Yes, you can see this from the gadget

Could I use user ids to form my own groups and store them?

yes, they wil be consistent for the same user

Could I send actions/feeds to users that I stored ids from?

From within your gadget

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track but any bit of understanding that you could provide would be really appreciated.

Thanks & Regards, Lars

I undestand you may want to do this from server-side code too, and that will eb possibel when Friend Connect adopts the 0.8 RESTful APIs in future.

On May 27, 11:01 pm, "Luciano Ricardi" <rica...@gmail.com> wrote:

Brian,

You could create a gadget that interacts with your website. For example, you could create an Opensocial application that sent a signed request to your website since the user logs at the container (eg: orkut). So, you can now say that only Opensocial authenticated users could use services on your website. You can even create some interaction with the friends of your registered user like "services to your friends".

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:50 PM, brian <bjsc...@gmail.com> wrote:

google friend connect does not give me what i need. i don't want a separate gadget to hold this stuff, i want to integrate it with my other comments seamlessly.

On May 21, 8:24 pm, Balaji Srinivasan <bala...@gmail.com> wrote:

The way to do this is to use Google Friend Connect. Its still in beta (or is it alpha) but you can sign up athttp://

www.google.com/friendconnect/

Balaji

On May 21, 2008, at 4:10 PM, brian wrote:

I have an existing website, but I don't want to have people have to create profiles, with pictures etc. What I would like is for a user to be able to optionally sign in to one of their existing opensocial enabled social networks from my page, and use their profile from that network on my site. That way, when they leave a comment for example, I can put there picture next to it.

Is this possible in opensocial?