Archive for the ‘general’ Category

Signed makeRequest Calls

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Gadgets hosted by OpenSocket can now perform signed makeRequest calls to a server. Normal unsigned makeRequest can still be used to fetch information from any server, but signed requests are normally used to fetch or send data to/from a server under your control - in a situation where you want ...

Capabilities of OpenSocket today

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

OpenSocket has come a long way since the original prototype app, and now supports most of the Google Gadgets and Open Social API. This post gives a quick update on the depth of support for various features. Whatever your gadget needs, try it out by registering the gadget in the ...

Who should use OpenSocket?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Some people have been asking how OpenSocket, which runs Open Social gadgets directly within Facebook, fits amongst all the other frameworks that build some bridge between the Facebook and Open Social APIs. The kind of 'competing' service we're talking about here might be the Ruby framework which provides an interface lying ...