Google‘s

Open Social

Christian Scholz
http://mrtopf.de/connect
http://comlounge.net Barcamp Berlin 2
Write once, run everywhere
Google Gadget

Application
 Google Gadget

Application

Platform
 Google Gadget

Application
OpenSocial API

Platform
Platform
OpenSocial API

Google Gadget

Application
OpenSocial API

Platform
Orkut

Flixter

Ning
Example
Writing Applications
1. Write a Google Gadget
 Example GG HTML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<Module>
<ModulePrefs title="Go to Photo Album" height="250" scaling="false" />
<Content type="html">

<![CDATA[
<div style="text-align:center"><a
id="Riggs" title="My Photo Album" target="_blank"
href="http://picasaweb.google.com/doc.examples/ShelfBoy">
<img border="0" alt="Photo" src="http://doc.examples.googlepages.com/Riggsie-OP.jpg"
title="Click Here."></a>
</div>

]]>
</Content>
</Module>
2. Importing Open Social

<ModulePrefs title="Title of Your Application">

<Require feature="opensocial-0.5"/>
</ModulePrefs>
 3. Using Open Social

function onLoadFriends(dataResponse) { // do something with the

dataResponse }

/**
* Request for friend information when the page loads.
*/
function getData() {
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = 'Requesting friends...';
var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();
req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest('VIEWER'), 'viewer');
req.add(req.newFetchPeopleRequest ('VIEWER_FRIENDS'), 'viewerFriends');
req.send(onLoadFriends);
};
 3. Using Open Social

/**
* Parses the response to the friend information request and generates
* html to list the friends by their display name.
*
* @param {Object} dataResponse Friend information that was requested.
*/
function onLoadFriends(dataResponse) {
var viewer = dataResponse.get('viewer').getData();
var html = 'Friends of ' + viewer.getDisplayName();
html += ':<br><ul>';
var viewerFriends = dataResponse.get('viewerFriends').getData();
viewerFriends.each(function(person) {
html += '<li>' + person.getDisplayName();
});
html += '</ul>';
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = html;
};
 3 APIs

1. People and Relationships

2. Persistence
3. Activities
 3 APIs

1. People and Relationships

2. Persistence
3. Activities

How are users between different social networks connected?

Hosting Applications
OpenSocial Service Provider
Interface

* Adding and removing friends

* Adding and removing apps
* Storing activities
* Retrieving activity streams for self and friends
* Storing and retrieving per-app and per-app-per-user data
more documentation
still to come
with SDK