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A Bit of a Shindig
Published 12:30, 30 December 07
One of the great things about open standards is that anyone can implement them - including those in the free software world. An obvious candidate for this treatment is the new OpenSocial set of APIs from Google, and here's an Apache project doing just that:
Shindig will provide implementations of an emerging set of APIs for client-side composited web applications. The Apache Software Foundation has proven to have developed a strong system and set of mores for building community-centric, open standards based systems with a wide variety of participants.
A robust, community-developed implementation of these APIs will encourage compatibility between service providers, ensure an excellent implementation is available to everyone, and enable faster and easier application development for users.
The Apache Software Foundation has proven it is the best place for this type of open development.
The Shindig OpenSocial implementation will be able to serve as a reference implementation of the standard.
Posted by Glyn Moody at 8:25 AM
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