Re: [PhillyOnRails] projects; facebook

[Mike Mangino <mmangino@elevatedrails.com>]

On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Toby DiPasquale wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:09:20PM -0600, Mike Mangino wrote:
> > I've been using the Google OpenSocial stuff for about a month. It's
>
> How's that? Didn't it come out last week?

The public release was last week.  They gave some developers access a  
while back. There were a couple of hack-fest days at the googleplex  
last month. It was interesting, but my impression was that their  
engineers just don't get it. They seem to think of the whole thing as  
big iGoogle gadgets. They are going to launch with no serverside API  
which basically neuters any real application. Even the basic wall type  
applications can't be done without it. The couple that exist have  
already been hacked because there is no authentication in the API (the  
whole thing is browser based, so anybody with a js debugger can do  
serious damage)

Basically, OpenSocial gives you an IFrame and some callbacks to get  
friend data. There is no UI integration ala FBML and no messaging at  
all.

If you guys ever want somebody to talk about Facebook development I  
would be interested.

Mike


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