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…
2008 was a great year for OpenSocial, with dozens of social networks all over the world adopting this standard as their technology of choice for open application platforms. This has greatly expanded the reach of OpenSocial applications to over 600 mil…
Mahatma Gandhi once observed that “man is a social being,” that “without inter-relation with society, he cannot realize his oneness with the universe.” While, of course, the universe is much bigger than OpenSocial, one way to realize your “oneness” w…
The OpenSocial Foundation’s Community Representative election is underway, as we announced last week. If you’re not already a member of the foundation and are interested in joining, you must submit the OpenSocial Foundation membership application (it’…
Daum Communications, an internet portal in Korea, announced plans to launch OpenSocial applications. Daum is one of the largest internet portals in Korea with an estimated 38 million registered users and has 7.3 million Cafes (Daum’s popular internet …
Posted by Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs TeamIf you just can’t get enough of us here, we’ve also been broadcasting out into the Twittersphere with our googledata account. If you’re not in the know, Twitter is a microblogging service that makes it easy…
Posted by Austin Chau, Google Data APIs TeamThe Google Data JavaScript client library has expanded its support to cover our latest browser Chrome as well as Safari 3.x. Now you can start writing AJAX applications that use the Google Data JavaScript cl…
Posted by Eric Bidelman, Google Data APIs TeamIf you’ve thought about diving into the Google Health Data API, there’s no better time to start. Today the documentation got a major face-lift. There’s a slew of new content and several new pages: Getting…
Posted by Jochen Hartmann, Google Data APIs TeamFor those of you interested in using the Python Client Library with App Engine and the YouTube Data API, check out the new tutorial that we just posted over on the YouTube Developer Blog.
Posted by Jeff Fisher, Google Data APIs TeamWe field all kinds of questions in the discussion groups, usually resulting in small snippets of code that aren’t easy for other people to find. So we decided to start up a Tips Blog for all the Google Data A…
Posted by Jeff Fisher & Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs TeamWe’ve added a lot of new tools and functionality to the YouTube APIs in the past year (we launched the new Google Data-based API last August!), and we recently gave our overview page a fac…
Posted by Eric Bidelman & Austin Chau, Google Data APIs TeamThe Google Data team has developed client libraries in .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, and Objective-C. With the popularity of other languages like Ruby, many developers have taken it…
Posted by Ryan Boyd, Google Data APIs TeamBack in April, the Google Enterprise team launched the Solutions Marketplace. I recently have been talking with some developers using Google Data APIs who weren’t aware of the site, so I wanted to shout out on…
Posted by Ryan Boyd, Google Data APIs TeamI will be joining the Force.com team tomorrow, July 30th, at 10:00am PDT to talk about their client library for accessing Google Data APIs from within Salesforce applications.If you’re available and interested …
Posted by Steven Soneff, Google Finance TeamThe latest version of the JavaScript Client library is now available, and it includes support for easy access to the Google Finance Portfolio Data API. The API lets you keep your portfolios and watchlists up…