Great concepts, John. Your thoughts, in my mind, are exactly what
OpenSocial "should" end up being all about. And as your concepts fit
into the DiSo paradigm, it really does begin to remove the container
constraint (my self hosted blog being the destination of all things
pertaining to my blogging activities.) I rarely go to a site now,
unless it is to actually comment on that blog. Not that I don't want
to see their sites look, feel and layout, but because there is SO much
to consume on a regular basis. I rarely go into my facebook account
unless I have a notification that someone has left me a message,
however, I realize others do spend a lot of time in there. Same with
Ning.com and the various communities there I'm either running or a
member of.
From my perspective, and I'd guess others round these parts as well, I
want to be able to "broadcast" my message to you wherever and whenever
is the most convenient for YOU to receive. If that means having the
outlet to reach you via these various other sites, then I REALLY want
to be able to set up and do that. And I want to be using WordPress as
MY hub of operations.
As my guys and I are currently building a new entity online and
attempting to think outside of the classic 1.0 and 2.0 paradigms of
having an online destination that requires you to go to, we're
starting to think in (what we believe to be) 3.0 paradigm of providing
our content where you want to be. We'll use the tools to bring you to
our destination when we have to, but being able to create and maintain
mindshare, we're all going to have to start thinking like you're
thinking.
I think ;)
Stephen, on your OAuth Test Client, the blog URL is the entire blog
post or just the site's domain?
I've forgotten the self hosted WordPress API URL; is it
http://your_domain.com/xml-rpc.php ??
And finally, the post id your form requires is the actual numerical
post ID or the post slug?
Thanks!
James.