{"id":509,"date":"2007-11-04T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=509"},"modified":"2007-11-04T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:33:00","slug":"opensocial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/opensocial\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSocial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sorenshaman\/1840489705\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2209\/1840489705_2532eb48fc_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sorenshaman\/1840489705\/\">opensocial 2<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sorenshaman\/\">sorenshaman<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/opensocial\/\">OpenSocial<\/a> looks promising.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fairly enthusiastic about the way FaceBook have opened up their site to 3rd party applications, but at the same time it&#8217;s worried me that they&#8217;d monopolise everything eventually.<\/p>\n<p>An open API is a much better idea.  I have to find out more about it to see where the potential pitfalls are, but I definitely think it&#8217;ll be worthwhile developing appications for OpenSocial.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>opensocial 2 Originally uploaded by sorenshaman Google&#8217;s OpenSocial looks promising. I&#8217;ve been fairly enthusiastic about the way FaceBook have opened up their site to 3rd party applications, but at the same time it&#8217;s worried me that they&#8217;d monopolise everything eventually. An open API is a much better idea. I have to find out more about it to see where the potential pitfalls are, but I definitely think it&#8217;ll be worthwhile developing appications for OpenSocial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}