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New comment by lindner in "OpenSocial Specification"

So many thoughts about OpenSocial and the reference implementation, Shindig. I have it thank for my time at hi5, LinkedIn and then Google.

Some little known facts about OpenSocial

- Hangouts Apps (remember those?) were based on OpenSocial containers.

- OpenSocial powered the LinkedIn Apps Platform and Labs for a number of years. The team built Rails and Node apps and deployed on Joyent.

- Eric Schmidt gave a pep talk to the working group pre-launch and mentioned about how open always wins in the end...

- MySpace was concerned about the attack surface of 3p apps running in iframes. They toyed with the idea of requiring a webkit browser plugin to run apps (!). It did lead to Caja* as a project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project

- The work on OpenSocial led in small part to the Activity Streams spec which led to ActivityPub and thus the latest Fediverse protocols. I like to think of OpenSocial as dead, but a good organ donor.

Fun times...

 

Patchwork 2.0 - 2010

While not strictly social, this did use the underlying Shindig code based used for social gadgets. It also allowed for Cooperating Gadgets in the browser via gadgets.pubsub and distributed Prefs system using gadgets.prefs

In fact one of the use cases was 'add the Google Gadget to your container' so your other gadgets could have enhanced functionality. The only thing missing is a user-owned, portable data store. We're seeing a return to this model in ARCS and Fuchsia.

 

Shindig

I'm sure this will make some people nostalgic..

_Our October board report will be due in a couple days (Oct 7th) and due to the lack of activity with the project over the past few quarters (and general decline for even longer than that) I think it is time Shindig gets moved to the attic.  Please respond with your vote, thanks!_

 

firstgoogleremail

I don't have my  - but I do have the email that started the ball rolling towards my eventual employment.  Seven weeks later I started at Google.

*Date*: 8/7/10
*Subject*: Interesting moves

_I'm intrigued the recent social moves coming out of Google and wonder if there's some part for me in all of this, either from the inside or from the outside._

_Truth be told, I'm not getting my "change the internet for the better" satisfaction at the moment even with the independent time I spend on Opensocial/Shindig/OAuth._

_Would you like to have a short chat in the next week or two?_

 

In Portland?  Tonight you can network with people working on OpenSocial, Shindig and Rave.

In Portland?  Tonight you can network with people working on OpenSocial, Shindig and Rave.

Sadly I won't be able to make this or the OpenSocial State of the Union.  Have fun folks!

Originally shared by Mark W.

Please join @ApacheRave, @ApacheShindig, on Tues night @OSCON& celebrate another year of open source! http://bit.ly/NPqiyN

 

Going to OSCON?  Check out this event plus the OpenSocial State of the Union.

Going to OSCON?  Check out this event plus the OpenSocial State of the Union.

Originally shared by Mark W.

 

Here's a fun visualization I made last year for the Apache Shindig project using Gource.

Here's a fun visualization I made last year for the Apache Shindig project using Gource. Learn how to make your own at http://code.google.com/p/gource/

 

There's some interesting things going on behind the scenes here. Some of this will find it's way back to shindig.

There's some interesting things going on behind the scenes here. Some of this will find it's way back to shindig.

In any case it's a generalized solution for calling JSON-RPC endpoints with postMessage flow using OAuth2.

Originally shared by Mano Marks

Pretty cool, a new way to access many of Google's APIs, though not Maps at the moment. In particular, Google+, Freebase, Contacts, Latitude, and a host of other APIs. And it'll handle the authentication for you.

 

Apache Invites.. Looking forward to connecting with more people here.

Apache Invites.. Looking forward to connecting with more people here.

lindner@apache.org

VP Apache Shindig

 

Hi Opensocial folks.

Hi Opensocial folks. As you may have noticed that I'm a bit busy lately. Tonight I'm going to catch up on shindig/spec work.

Thanks to everyone in this community for making Opensocial a success!