Comments on: First looks at OpenSocial: part 4 (content for persistence data) https://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/ Open information and technology. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: david https://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-730 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:23:58 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-730 Brendan: I’ve been thinking along the same lines. They’ve already gone part-way there with GData, and hosting apps isn’t that different from hosting videos on YouTube — it’s something that most amateurs couldn’t manage.

]]> By: Brendan https://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-729 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:37:23 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-729 How about a third idea, that you could “submit” your app to the OpenSocial container and it would run entirely server-side? Then it would obviously need some persistent storage somewhere, and you might as well use a shared protocol… if Google et al are thinking like this, it starts to make more sense.

I agree that the protocol is very bloated, but even this isn’t quite as much of an issue if most of the network chatter is local to the OpenSocial container.

]]> By: Lance Lavandowska https://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-728 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:45:47 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-728 I’d read someone else talk about how GData is a bastardization (my word) of Atom, but I haven’t ever looked at GData myself. If this is at all indicative of the rest of GData, I am very disappointed in Google. They should have created their own XML schemas, or used RDF/XML instead. Your earlier posts contained some puzzling usage of Atom, but this is just plain obscene.

]]> By: david https://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-727 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:39:26 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-727 As I explained after the list, I think the vision thing is very unhealthy for specs, especially v.1 specs — it’s much better to concentrate on real problems of the present than speculative problems of the future.

]]> By: John Cowan https://quoderat.megginson.com/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-726 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:14:10 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/11/08/first-looks-at-opensocial-part-4-content-for-persistence-data/#comment-726 Why is #1 not admirable? (I see why #2 wouldn’t be.)

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