Blogging Roller

Another batch of social software related links today, but today it's all about Google's new OpenSocial APIs (link to go live tomorrow). I waded through 20 or so posts today and the links below are my favorites. Gotta say, I'm really looking forward to getting the details tomorrow, understanding how Roller can play and seeing how AtomPub fits into the picture -- and I'm assuming it does since GData has been mentioned (see the Brady Forrest link below). After reading Marc Andreessen's post, which is the first link below, I think it's possible that Roller could act as both a Container and as a provider of Apps for other Containers. I wonder, could OpenSocial provide the UI widget API that Roller needs? And, will Roller's rather limited user profile data be enough to allow Roller to act as a Container? If so, I might be doing some late night hacking this weekend.

• Marc Andreessen: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
  "An open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: Containers -- social networking systems and... Apps -- applications that want to be embedded within containers"
• Brady Forrest: Google Announces the OpenSocial API
  "The open API will have three parts People, Storage [and] Activity stream. All of these calls will have a GData counterparts"
• Fred Stutzman: On OpenSocial
  "It's unfortunate that Google, rather than a standards body, is at the center, but perhaps this will outline a standard way forward"
• Danny Ayers: Google's OpenSocial coming tomorrow
  "Will this stuff be truly open, usable as linked data (with appropriate authentication) or will it still be hogtied within those partners' environments?"
• Valley Wag: What OpenSocial will look like on LinkedIn
  "Here are screen shots detailing how one such partner, LinkedIn, plans to incorporate apps"