I recently wrote this google gadget to explore Google’s legacy API as a precedence to moving on to their OpenSocial API. Now I am playing on FaceBook, although this API doesn’t utilize OpenSocial .. it seems like most of my American friends live there.  Having an elaborate history utilizing the original social applications that came with the Internet like IRC, Usenet, mailing lists, etc. I feel right at home.  It’s all pretty exciting and I hope I can create applications utilizing the power of the social model to make the world a more sustainable place.

Even though it looks simple, this gadget has some cool things happening.  Sortable Tabs (try it out), the ability to remember where the tab last was and to remember what your last search result was.  In place search results in the search box.  This application doesn’t take you to the NobelCom site unless you click on the search result.

Techies will enjoy knowing that Aptana Jaxer was used to create a jsonp rest api which first grabs the search results from NobelCom then shares the results to the gadget.  In the background I got my first taste of the now defuct W3C P3P Specification because otherwise MSIE would complain about the third-party cookies.  Then there is a mashup of jQuery, jQuery UI and Dojo from Google’s CDN.  Dojo was used for the FilteringSelect widget (the countries pulldowns).  There is even more then that going on.  This is a highly built up App, but I am very impressed how it all came together.

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