OpenSocial meets iBuild: Create your own social gadgets
As revealed tonight in TechCrunch, Google will be announcing OpenSocial, a set of three common APIs that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks:
- Profile Information (user data - “who I am“)
- Friends Information (social graph - “who I know“)
- Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff - “what I am doing“)
LimitNone will be part of the Google launch with our new iBuild product.
iBuild is a socially-aware, gadget-based application builder.
Here is a simple scenario that illustrates some of iBuild’s potential for do-it-yourself social application building.
Demo Scenario
Group of friends planning potluck dinner party. They need to coordinate around details, including who’s bringing what. You want to create a to-do list that everyone can share and update.
Implementation
1. Build a new application in iBuild for identifying tasks and assigning them to Orkut friends. (iBuild is a gadget in iGoogle or Orkut). Specify what kind of information you want to track. This includes a field that allows the user to select from a list of friends in e.g. Orkut.
2. Next, generate a gadget and share it with everyone involved. The gadget can reside in Orkut, iGoogle, or any container supporting OpenSocial, like MySpace.
3. Friends jointly update the list through the application in whatever social network they are in.
4. The Activity Stream reflects task assignments and status updates, thereby providing friend-based task workflow.
Coming soon……
