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Joel bookmarked on 2008-12-05 Opensocial google friendconnect
  • Google FriendConnect is a very important project, and I think many people miss its significance because they don’t fully understand how it works (including the coverage in this blog post, for instance). FriendConnect provides the “Open Stack in a box” to the long-tail of the web–under the hood, it lets any site instantly become an OpenID relying party (something TC has often urged for more of), an OAuth consumer, and an OpenSocial container (meaning they can also now add any 3rd-party OpenSocial gadgets). This will, I believe, have a dramatic impact on the rate at which these open building blocks gain widespread adoption, and ironically it will let the smaller sites leapfrog the larger sites in terms of technical capabilities, because Google is essentially hosting and proxying all of the work needed to support the Open Stack. And Google is going out of their way to provide this functionality in a way that doesn’t give them an unfair advantage–for instance, any FriendConnect user can hook up their Plaxo account, bring in their profile and address book, and share activity back into Pulse, because we support those open standards too. So in conclusion, there’s a lot more to FriendConnect than “OpenSocial’s answer to Facebook”, and anyone who’s a fan of OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, etc., this is definitely something to cheer for.

This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 04 Dec 2008, by Alison Pope.

  • 29 Dec 08
    djuggler
    Doug McCaughan

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  • 05 Dec 08
    alexmonney
    Alexander Monney
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    Roar Skullestad

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  • joel
    Joel Liu

    Opensocial google friendconnect

    • Google FriendConnect is a very important project, and I think many people miss its significance because they don’t fully understand how it works (including the coverage in this blog post, for instance). FriendConnect provides the “Open Stack in a box” to the long-tail of the web–under the hood, it lets any site instantly become an OpenID relying party (something TC has often urged for more of), an OAuth consumer, and an OpenSocial container (meaning they can also now add any 3rd-party OpenSocial gadgets). This will, I believe, have a dramatic impact on the rate at which these open building blocks gain widespread adoption, and ironically it will let the smaller sites leapfrog the larger sites in terms of technical capabilities, because Google is essentially hosting and proxying all of the work needed to support the Open Stack. And Google is going out of their way to provide this functionality in a way that doesn’t give them an unfair advantage–for instance, any FriendConnect user can hook up their Plaxo account, bring in their profile and address book, and share activity back into Pulse, because we support those open standards too. So in conclusion, there’s a lot more to FriendConnect than “OpenSocial’s answer to Facebook”, and anyone who’s a fan of OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, etc., this is definitely something to cheer for.
  • 04 Dec 08
    ajp-diigo
    Alison Pope

    iam google facebook openid

    • The battle over who will control access to your online identity is heating up
    • Google Friend Connect is OpenSocial’s answer to Facebook Connect
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