The Japanese portal / search engine goo, have gone live with their Shindig-based OpenSocial container. See example user page, goo labs site, developer’s kitchen and documentation (in Japanese). See also announcement from Eiji Kitamura on the shindig (Apache opensocial) list.
Building on last month’s announcement of OAuth for the Google Contacts API, this from Wei on the oauth list: Just want to let you know that we officially support OAuth for all Google Data APIs. See blog post: You’ll now be able to use standard OAuth libraries to write code that authenticates users to any [...]
OpenSocial’s API reference describes a number of classes (‘Person’, ‘Name’, ‘Email’, ‘Phone’, ‘Url’, ‘Organization’, ‘Address’, ‘Message’, ‘Activity’, ‘MediaItem’, ‘Activity’, …), each of which has various properties whose values are either strings, references to instances of other classes, or enumerations. I’d like to make them usable beyond the confines of OpenSocial, so I’m making an RDF/OWL [...]
Via Rajdeep Dua on shindig-dev, “Shindig : An Architectural Overview ( PHP Version)” Shindig is the Apache-incubated project to build an opensource implementation of the Google-and-friends OpenSocial platform for gadgety social networking. Most activity on the list is around the Java version, but a PHP effort/port is also underway. This article follows the earlier “Architectural [...]