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Displaying List of Friends in Opensocial App

This code snippet display the List of Friends in OpenSocial Apps, This example fetches the owner and the owner's friends, and displays a list of the owner's friends in HTML Div. It will give you guide how to fetch and operate data in an OpenSocial App. Prepare the Skeleton Build the OpenSocial...

Posted to Open Social Kit by Farhan on 06-18-2009
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OpenSocial and Facebook

The intention behind OpenSocial was to allow developers to write an application which would be easily adaptable for any other social networks. However, the facebook platform and application development structure requires the need of using facebook specific programming techniques (e.g. FBML). When Google...

Posted to Open Social Kit by maria.mir on 06-17-2009
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OpenSocial Standard

The OpenSocial standard currently lies at version 0.8. It has already been implemented by most of the famous social networking sites like Friendster, Hi5 and Orkut. However, an important question will be … that what does the standard mean? The story starts in 2007, when Facebook.com came out with...

Posted to Open Social Kit by maria.mir on 06-17-2009
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What is Open Social Platform?

OpenSocial is a new social networking platform, which allows the developers to create containers and other plug in type applications which can work inside the containers. More or less it is similar to the concept of Facebook and its applications which became widely popular in a matter of months; however...

Posted to Open Social Kit by maria.mir on 06-16-2009
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Basic Gadget Template

Recreating the whole gadget structure whenever you create a new open social app is very tedious and irritating. I think it is better to have a template file to put the basic structure so that we can reuse it whenever required. I have this template which is very small and simple yet it saves you a lot...

Posted to Open Social Kit by maria.mir on 06-16-2009
Filed under: Filed under: OSK, OpenSocial [Edit Tags]