8月 29 2009
I have become an Apache Shindig committer
“Web will become more social” This has been what I kept telling people after 2005, when I’d joined goo. There’s so much things we can do when we make social graphs as a platform. First thing I tried was to make a social platform on a portal site, which turns out to be goo Home.
I already had an image of the future at that time: the social graph will be expanded to external web and it will tie any other services into one with social connections. It was before we laungh goo Home when Facebook emerged.
What Facebook was trying to do was not like what I initially imagined: getting external services into their service. It was totally opposite to what I was imagining, but I realized our ultimate goal must be the same. Making web social. After a few month, OpenSocial got announced.
OpenSocial decides its spec democratic and open. Openness is good. Imagine you want to tie 2 systems social. Needless to say, it’s easier when the spec is something standard. You can omit communication cost as well as technical endeavor.
On top of that, with open spec, a lot of product may be expected. Taking OpenSocial as example, there’s Yoichiro Tanaka’s OpenSocial Development Environment, OpenSocial Client Library, OAuth related libraries, OpenSocial Signed Request Library which I developed… Whole bunch of open source products help latter joining developers.
And the primal open source product among OpenSocial is Shindig, OpenSocial container’s reference implementation.
Shindig was my textbook to learn existing spec of OpenSocial. There was almost no one else in Japan who looked into Shindig, so I was invited to become an Google API Expert.
I’ve also wrote a lot of patches to Shindig on my way to developing goo Home. And 1 and half years have passed…
I have become a committer of Apache Shindig
I made my first contact with Mr. Chris Chabot who has been the main committer of PHP Shindig. I met him in person at Google IO 2008, occasionally chatting on messenger, he recommended me to become Shindig committer.
To become a committer in Apache Software Foundation, you have to get voted. And luckily, I was approved.
PHP Shindig is said to be used be more than 26 SNS with 5 million users. I was really excited to know that.
To me, OpenSocial is just a tool to make my ideal social web possible. But at least in Japan, there’s no other choice now and OpenSocial IS the standard. And Shindig which is used in mixi and goo, is the one which support its core.
I’m hoping to make Social Web happen in Japan and support it as a Shindig committer.
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