[Developers] Google Friend Connect and Acre

[Jim Pick]

I'm not exactly sure how it will work.  Right now, people can leave 
comments, but they could already do that by signing up with Freebase.

Mostly, I just want to play with the APIs.  But I'm hoping that a rich 
ecosystem of gadgets pop up.

For the Vancouver base, I can imagine a system where I might start a 
topic, and then ask a friend to fill out more of it.  Or an application 
that might give award points to people who add or refine data.

One way it is interesting is that anybody with a Google Account, Yahoo 
Account, or OpenID can sign in without having to set up another account.

I'm a little unclear on how this integrates with server side 
authentication.  A user now has to sign in to a site on the server side 
as well as on the client side.  Maybe in the future, for some apps, 
users will only sign in on the client side, and do all the server side 
stuff via an OAuth API?

Cheers,

  - Jim

Jason Douglas wrote:
> Very cool!  I'm especially curious how you hope to use it (even if  
> it's more vision than reality :-).
> 
> We've just started to do some Open Social work ourselves so it's great  
> to see other people doing it...  I'd definitely love to hear what kind  
> of libraries in Acre would make this even easier.
> 
> We're also getting pretty close to oauth support (for Freebase, Google  
> and other services) which opens up even more mash-up possibilities. ;-)
> 
> -jason
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Jim Pick wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I received a Google Friend Connect invite this morning, so I whipped  
>> up
>> an Acre app to use it.  Check it out:
>>
>>   http://vanbase.jpick.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/
>>
>> I think there might be some interesting possibilities for mashups  
>> using
>> custom Freebase-aware Open Social gadgets.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  - Jim
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