OpenSocial

Well, I've been tossing around the idea of some sort of distributed web application based in a Drupal site for some time now. I first got the idea from Dave Cohen, a Drupal developer I got to spend a little time with in Barcelona. He's heading up the Drupal for Facebook project at drupal.org, so he's basically making my life easier just by doing what he's doing. (He's also the developer of the TAC Lite module which I've used in several different sites.)

Anyways, Facebook's developer system is obscenely difficult. I wish that were an overstatement, but it really seems like they're trying to weed out all those application developers who might be interested. I spent some time working it out to no avail and put those efforts on pause when I got an e-mail from Google letting me into the Orkut Sandbox. Orkut? Sandbox? bwuh?