September 22nd, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
MySpace is pleased to unleash our full support of OpenSocial 0.9. MySpace’s OpenSocial 0.9 implementation was built on an entirely new framework with three main goals in mind for developers; stability, performance and compliance to the OpenSocial 0.9 s…
September 17th, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
Hello! My name is Yoichiro Tanaka, and I belong to the Platform Team of mixi, Inc. “mixi” is currently the most popular social networking service (SNS) in Japan and has more than 17 million registered users. I am happy to announce that we have released…
September 15th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
In just over two years, social applications have greatly enhanced the user experience on social networks. The number of app installs among social networks has climbed into the billions, creating an industry with hundreds of millions of dollars in a…
September 10th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Today we released Ning Apps, or third-party applications based on OpenSocial 0.8, that serve as new, rich features for our 1.5 million+ Ning Networks and 33 million users. Thanks to OpenSocial and more than 90 Ning App developers, our Ning Network Cr…
September 2nd, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Annyonghaseyo! This is Kyle Kim from Cyworld with some exciting news!We have recently launched Dev.Square a sandbox environment for Cyworld developers. In celebration of the launch, we had a big announcement conference in Seoul with over 750 peop…
August 13th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Those of you who were around for the early days of OpenSocial might remember that one of the very first test implementations ran on iGoogle. Since that early version more than a year and a half ago, the iGoogle team has worked hard to get the experienc…
August 12th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Hello, my name is Matthias Häsel, and I am a Senior Product Manager at XING, the leading European online business network. Over 8 million members use XING in 16 languages to do business, find jobs, and further their careers. XING helps members find c…
July 30th, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
I am pleased to announce that Sonico, one of Latin America’s leading social networks, has successfully rolled out its OpenSocial container to over +39 million users! A fantastic group of launch partners, including Buddypoke and GameDesire, worked with …
July 29th, 2009 | by api.rboyd | published in Google OpenSocial
Avatars United is pleased to announce the launch of the Avatars United Developer Platform and its OpenSocial container! The Developer Platform was initially made available to selected developers two months ago, but is now open to everyone.BackgroundAva…
July 23rd, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
Hello, my name is Hidetaka Yamashita, and I am in charge of mixi’s OpenSocial Mobile project. I am very happy to announce that mixi has recently added support for mobile phones to our OpenSocial platform. mixi.jp is currently the most popular Japanese …
July 2nd, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Apache Shindig aims to make it simple to create your own OpenSocial container by providing an open source implementation (in both Java and PHP) of the OpenSocial APIs. The Shindig team recently made creating and maintaining an OpenSocial container eve…
June 29th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
The current generation of social applications has become increasingly interesting and attractive, with many apps sporting fancy animation effects and complex user interactions. One exciting result of this trend is the growing number of ActionScript dev…
June 23rd, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
Hi, I’m Mark Halvorson the “Chief Imagineer” at Atlassian Software. Whenever I tell people my title it is usually received in one of two ways – a chuckle and a blank stare, or for those in the know some comment about Walt Disney. No, I don’t make rid…
June 10th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
If you weren’t able to make it to Google I/O, or if you’re looking for a refresher on one of the sessions you saw, the Google I/O site now has videos of all the social sessions so everyone can watch and learn. From design principles to saving on bandw…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
Ever since launching our OpenSocial platform in March 2008, developers have been eager for a unified payment platform for collecting micro-transactions on hi5. Over the past year, we have moved ahead to make such a virtual currency platform available …
