I am very much interested in the opensocial APIs promoted by the google. The moment I heard about it, 100s of ideas started forming in my mind. And I got one of them materialized the day itself. Check out the mobshare open social application.

I had been promoting the stuff a lot also, and thats when I had a chat with Vishnu about opensocial, and he pointed towards a possible problem, a problem that now J2me is also facing.

for an opensocial application to be effective we will have to customize if for every container that we want our application to run. Orkut needs its own look, we cant use the same design for myspace or linkedin.

Also most of these social networks will have its own cool features, for which they will develop additional APIs, extending the opensocial api. Now this has become like different KVM enhancements on various phones. Each phone manufacturer supports his own cool features.

Now this is a developers nightmare. Write applications and customize them for each and every container. I know every J2me developer has faced this problem. So will open social also end up like this. ?

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This is the screenshot of the opensocial app we developed. Thanks to Sarath. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

This is a very simple application that brings mobshare image albums inside orkut. This is a very simple example for the opensocial Api capabilities.

This application is a very general application where the general image stream is used in the slide show. Right now we are modifying the application so that the user can choose the image stream to show in his profile.

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OpenSocial is a set of APIs promoted by google for developers to create applications that makes use of the information found in social networking sites. Almost all major social networking websites now support the initiative.

This API will allow developers to create applications that run across all the social networking platforms that support OpenSocial. Code once and run everywhere. The apps are written in HTML and JavaScript.

Here are some of the applications that are already written.

ILike - Shows a playlist of all the songs that you like on your profile page

ComicGadget - Select a comic to be displayed on your profile

There are many more. If you have any ideas, add as a comment to this post. Ill get it done for you.

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