The RoLLing cOde

MySpace China
has opened its
developer platform
to some beta testers. Similar to
Facebook Platform
,
the dev zone has a list of APIs, some language wrappers(only
ActionScript for now) for the API and a test console. Detailed
comparison follows:

Generally,
I appericiate their picking up of OAuth. But the number of objects and
functions accessible via API is too much fewer than Facebook’s.
OpenSocial API to push activities is still on its way either.

Well, for MySpace, opening is a big step, but too early to give them a bravo.

Official Document in English
and
My Translation in Chinese
（中文版附录暂未翻译）

The OAuth protocol enables websites or applications (Consumers) to access Protected Resources from a web service (Service Provider) via an API, without requiring Users to disclose their Service Provider credentials to the Consumers. More generally, OAuth creates a freely-implementable and generic methodology for API authentication.

OAuth协议致力于使网站和应用程序（统称为消费方）能够在无须用户透露其认证证书（译注：如登录密码）的情况下，通过API访问某个web服务（统称为服务提供方）的受保护资源。更一般地说，OAuth为API认证提供了一个可自由实现且通用的方法。

A presentation about
JiWai.de
was made by
zixia
and me last weekend at
ZEUUX
.

What I talked about was:

• JiWai.de gadgets, API and user-contributed apps;

• How we use OSS to build and scale JiWai.de site;

• The open standards we focus on.

Download the slides(PDF, in Chinese)
here
.