OpenSocial API and DataPortability - is it one thing or not?

[flash...@gmail.com]

Could you explain how OpenSocial API and DataPortability
Project(dataportability.org) are related, if any? It seems to me they
have close ideas but as it seems to me rather different technologies.
Is Dataportability related with RestFul API?

[Kevin Marks (Google)]

They are ideas with similar goals, but different approaches.
The DataPortability project assumes that the model is that each web
application has its own site and its own user registry, and thus
moving users and friends relationships between them is the most
important issue. The group works to promote standards that make this
easier.

OpenSocial takes a different approach, which is to abstract out the
user and friend registration into an API the applications can call,
and obtain the user and friend information from the container. This
lets you bring your application to where the users already are, or if
you have a big group of users, to offer them new applications you
don't have to write.

So the two are complementary.

On Jan 20, 10:54 pm, "flashni...@gmail.com" <flashni...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[flash...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the reply.

On Jan 25, 10:49 pm, "Kevin Marks (Google)" <kevinma...@gmail.com>
wrote: