Progress You Can See

March 26, 2008

Slug: progress-you-can-see Date: 2008-03-26 Title: Progress You Can See layout: post For a few weeks now, I’ve been playing with Movable Type, porting my as-yet-unfinished Friends plugin from WordPress to MT. I’ve been interested in what’s happening in the MT development world for a while now, and this seemed a good way to find out. Progress has been… stuttering. But I’ve got the basics in place - Editing and listing your contacts, and last night I got the template tags done so that I could build a basic blogroll widget (with XFN and hCard, oh my!).

MT Friends progress, in screenshots

Lunchtime Debrief Cranky And Breathless

Slug: lunchtime-debrief-cranky-and-breathless Date: 2008-03-15 Title: “Lunchtime Debrief: Cranky and Breathless” layout: post

Drivetime Debrief Slap Fight

Slug: drivetime-debrief-slap-fight Date: 2008-03-12 Title: Drivetime Debrief - Slap Fight! layout: post

Drivetime Debrief Slap Fight

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Drivetime Debrief Aaand Action

Slug: drivetime-debrief-aaand-action Date: 2008-03-11 Title: Drivetime Debrief - Aaand, Action! layout: post

Drivetime Debrief Aaand Action

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Action Streaming

Slug: action-streaming Date: 2008-03-11 Title: Action Streaming layout: post

Lunch Thats A Solved Problem

Slug: lunch-thats-a-solved-problem Date: 2008-03-07 Title: Lunch? That’s A Solved Problem layout: post

Iphone Sdk Our Platform Beat Up Your Honor Student

Slug: iphone-sdk-our-platform-beat-up-your-honor-student Date: 2008-03-07 Title: “iPhone SDK: "Our platform beat up your honor student"” layout: post

Google Contacts Api Debuts How Useful For Distributed Sites

Slug: google-contacts-api-debuts-how-useful-for-distributed-sites Date: 2008-03-07 Title: Google Contacts API debuts - how useful for distributed sites? layout: post Yesterday Google released a new contacts API, which has social network operators scrambling to implement.

Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don’t have to!

We’re happy to announce the availability of our Google Contacts Data API that gives programmatic access to your contact list. The contact list is shared among Google applications like Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and more.

This is exciting news for those of us working on DiSo – it would be great to give users the option to add their Google Contacts to their friends. Well, at least until I started reading the Developer’s Guide. The API (like many of Google’s APIs) requires AuthSub support in the client, which requires registering your site with Google:

Note: You must register your application domain with Google before you can use AuthSub with the Contacts Data API.

It’s my understanding that this means that any blog owner who wanted to use a hypothetical DiSo Google contacts import would have to have registered their site with Google, which sounds like a huge roadblock for us. Am I reading this wrong? I’d love to hear from other developers on this.