[TriLUG] [Juglist] [ANN] OpenQabal - Open Source Social Networking & Collaboration Platform

[Phillip Rhodes]

Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2007 2:56 PM, Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk> wrote:
>> Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
>>> How well will your project federate?
>> Perfectly, we hope. :-)
> 
> Ooooh. Looky what /. turns up:
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/1231212&from=rss
> 
> " Google's Plans for a Social API"
> 
> Very timely, Phil. Nicely done. :)

No doubt.  I can't really comment on that because
they haven't actually released the API yet. But from what
I have seen and heard, OpenSocial will be complementary to
the stuff I'm working on.  If (big IF) I understand correctly,
this API is more about allowing a facebook like model where
a site (Orkut, LinkedIn, Ning, whatever) can serve as a container
for apps like the "Vampires vs. Zombies" thing, or iLike or whatever.

Of course I am looking forward to the actual release so I can see
what they have cooked up.  If it's actually pretty cool then
I'll look into supporting it with OpenQabal.


TTYL,


Phil