How To Use requestNavigateTo() on MySpace
Two MySpace developers posting on a thread regarding requestNavigateTo within the MySpace environment need credit for this one. Kristaps and Eric posted a discussion which included some nice brief code...
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OAuth – A Great Pain on MySpace
This evening I had the opportunity to implement what should have been a simple OAuth signature validation until I ran into trouble parsing the parameters of the request. I decided to use one of the...
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MySpace Closer to Full OpenSocial Spec Adoption
Today I noticed a new tab in the application editor making it infinitely easier for developers of OpenSocial applications to adopt the MySpace platform. I first said they should be doing this two...
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Facebook and MySpace could learn something from Hi5
Hi5 (yet another social network) is launching their OpenSocial based platform today (well really tomorrow and over the next few weeks) and have done a really great job communicating with developers...
View ArticleOpenSocial Could Learn Some Things From Facebook’s Platform
OpenSocial, a group effort to create a widget platform spear headed by Google, has a few glitches that I’d love to see fixed. They are largely comparison items from Facebook, who has recently announced...
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OpenSocial Open for Business?
This week at GSP East the big names in the OpenSocial space came forward and basically gave a brief sales pitch on why they’re the platform to build on. Allen Stern has a nice synopsis of the panel....
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Muddl – A Word Game
While at GSP East, I presented on Muddl, a light fun word game that is anagram like in nature. I received lots of great feedback on the game from folks and encourage everyone to check it out. It’s...
View ArticleSo That’s What Broke!
MySpace has a good post explaining why you can’t use relative links within OpenSocial applications. If you’re building for the OpenSocial container and trying to make valid HTML apps, watch out for...
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Using newFetchPersonAppDataRequest on MySpace
Storing application data on the OpenSocial host is a great way to offload some unnecessary database and application server load. Why request a preference such as a skin for a user profile from your...
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Using Data Pipelining to Improve Gadget Speed
Beginning with OpenSocial 0.9, support for a new featured called Data Pipelining was introduced. Pipelining is really simple to implement and can bring a lot of speed and power to your applications....
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