OpenFacebook

[Sebastiano Scròfina]

Hi there,

I'm currently developing a clean API to access Facebook's social graph
without the need to login or authenticate. I need help since this is
still a very early stage open source project, so I thought this could
be the best place to ask. You can find it at http://github.com/riggasconi/openfacebook

Any feedback is welcome.

Sebastiano

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Hi Sebastiano,

   My feedback would be that the OpenSocial specification group currently has nothing to do with Facebook's social graph.  The Facebook developer forums would be a much better place to ask if you're looking for feedback on your project.

~Arne

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[Mark Essel]

Howdy Sebastiano & Arne,
I was under the impression that the philosophy behind open social (and
the open source community) is embracing the concept of participation
and open connectivity. It makes perfect sense to check out the
Facebook developer forums, but Sebastiano raised an interesting point.
Shouldn't open social be embracing the open data from facebook as
well?

Just my 2 cents,
Mark

On Oct 28, 8:03 pm, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Sebastiano,
>
>    My feedback would be that the OpenSocial specification group currently
> has nothing to do with Facebook's social graph.  The Facebook developer
> forums would be a much better place to ask if you're looking for feedback on
> your project.
>
> ~Arne
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Sebastiano Scròfina

> <riggasc...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > I'm currently developing a clean API to access Facebook's social graph
> > without the need to login or authenticate. I need help since this is
> > still a very early stage open source project, so I thought this could
> > be the best place to ask. You can find it at
> >http://github.com/riggasconi/openfacebook
>
> > Any feedback is welcome.
>
> > Sebastiano
>
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[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Hi Mark,

  OpenSocial is an open specification, not an open source project.  So while anyone can contribute to the discussion and design of the OpenSocial specification, the specification itself has a very explicit domain and programming interfaces, which Facebook does not utilize.

 So while we would absolutely love to have Facebook embrace the OpenSocial standard as a way of offering their data to programmers, this is currently not the case, so talking about software which interfaces with the Facebook API is certainly beyond the scope of this forum.  The reason for this is not because anyone here has anything against Facebook, but for the same reason we don't discuss topics such as Twitter's API, Del.icio.us's API, Flickr's API, or ponies on this list.

~Arne

      

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[Dan Brickley]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <kur...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>   OpenSocial is an open specification, not an open source project.  So while
> anyone can contribute to the discussion and design of the OpenSocial
> specification, the specification itself has a very explicit domain and
> programming interfaces, which Facebook does not utilize.
>  So while we would absolutely love to have Facebook embrace the OpenSocial
> standard as a way of offering their data to programmers, this is currently
> not the case, so talking about software which interfaces with the Facebook
> API is certainly beyond the scope of this forum.  The reason for this is not
> because anyone here has anything against Facebook, but for the same reason
> we don't discuss topics such as Twitter's API, Del.icio.us's API, Flickr's
> API, or ponies on this list.
> ~Arne

Although it might be offtopic here, let me jump in as a co-chair of
W3C's Social Web Incubator Group -
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/

If anyone is working on practical (code, specs) ways of
interconnecting Facebook or other proprietary APIs with systems that
speak OpenSocial (or other specs, including building blocks like XMPP,
Oauth, OpenID, Microformats) ... then we are very interested to hear
from you. Drop me a note or join the public-xg...@w3.org list
and participate directly. I'm in particular interested in strategies
that separate the protocol and schema aspects of the problem space.

cheers,

Dan