MySpace and Google demonstrated an interesting mashup of the MySpace Data Availability API, oAuth and the iGoogle gadget specification at the oAuth Summit a couple of weeks ago. The application, which pulls the core MySpace feature set into iGoogle, is not yet publicly available, although MySpace has said to expect in in August.
It’s another example of data portability in action (as well as the alliance between MySpace and Google to compete with Facebook). The example application MySpace has built for iGoogle is a gadget that allows MySpace users to check profile updates, their status messages and private messages - all from within the gadget. The gadget is built according to the new gadget spec, meaning that it should also work with other sites (such as Yahoo) that also support the gadget and oAuth.
These are the screen shots that were shown at the conference:
The two biggest forces, each with the crappiest UIs, come together to build something that looks like complete ass… woo hoo!!!
That’s cool. Openness is the way to go. Hope other follow.
It’s still not as good as our direct RSS streams. That’s where MySpace got the idea for doing an iGoogle widget anyway. There are at least 4 current and ex-myspace employees on sitespaces.
Late last year I described in painstaking detail how to stream sitespaces.net mail and bulletins to iGoogle with RSS.
Ours was/is superior, because all you have to do is create an account then click the RSS button on the right of the address bar and it launches all your bulletins and mail as separate feeds right into iGoogle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8.....659486487/
We’ve had iGoogle compatibility for over 3 years now. BTW, I just got adobe creative suite premium, so now our site is going to look f’ing hawt.
Interesting, great stuff…
Great step forward for google and myspace
they are getting more advanced and very successful . that’s a very good job
The word inscrutable comes to mind…
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I’m failing to see how this has ANYTHING to do with Data Portability. This looks like a glorified widget.
I’m very interested to see how the dust settles on all this as we’ve been planning to incorporate data availability into our app.
Why does someone keep changing the status of Omnidrive in CrunchBase? Someone please add it to the deadpool and keep it there. Thank you.
Nice move to integrate social interaction through google apps.
Google desperately needed something like this. Up until now the big players in social networking where trying to do their own thing. No one knows how to monetize their networks, and I didn’t expect them to share their user’s information until they did.
Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for.