The Change the Web Challenge invites developers to create widgets and web applications that help people connect to opportunities to make a difference all over the web. It’s a contest happening right now with $10,000 in prizes!The Change the Web Challe…
A little over a week ago, the OpenSocial Foundation celebrated — along with 250+ close friends — the one year anniversary of the introduction of OpenSocial. It was a great opportunity for everyone involved to get together and reflect on the past year…
As blogged before, next Thursday, November 13, is the official event for OpenSocial’s first birthday being hosted by the OpenSocial Foundation at MySpace’s SF office (SOMA).As you can see from the complete agenda, it’s filling out to be quite a day. So…
The OpenSocial Foundation community representatives election has concluded. With 311 eligible voters and 213 valid ballots cast, the community has selected Jay Parikh, and Joseph Smarr to serve as the two community representatives for this year’s board…
The 51.com platform team announced that the 51.com Developer Platform launched OpenSocial support on Oct. 18, and successfully ran a live OpenSocial app called Emote developed by RockYou, becoming the first large-scale social networking site in China t…
I’m happy to report that LinkedIn just launched their Intelligent Applications Platform (InApps), built using the OpenSocial 0.8 specification. This initial release features a healthy set of productivity applications, which provide new avenues for co…
Today, Yahoo is launching the developer-facing components of the Yahoo! Open Strategy. This includes our first implementation of OpenSocial support via the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP). With this launch we are giving developers access to Yahoo!’s…
The election for the OpenSocial Foundation’s community board representatives is now open. If you previously applied for membership, you should have received an email directing you to submit your ballot. The election will close at 11:59 PM PDT on Monday…
Today AOL is thrilled to announce that it has launched a new open developer site at http://dev.my.aol.com designed specifically to support the gadget specification on myAOL. AOL originally announced its support of OpenSocial and its plans to adopt gad…
Hard to believe, but OpenSocial is just a few weeks shy of being a full year old! To celebrate, we’re getting together to look back on the great progress we’ve all made in the past year and to discuss where we should take OpenSocial next. And of cours…
Netlog, the European social networking site, has just made their OpenSocial 0.7 application platform available to more than 35 million members. OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for building social applications, provides a common infrastructure for the …
Ning just launched support for OpenSocial v0.7 across our more than 500,000 social networks.This is the first type of OpenSocial support of its kind and we’re excited to be offering it. OpenSocial now comes standard on Your Own Social Network for Anyt…
Looking over the broad OpenSocial community, September was a very active month. In particular, there have been numerous OpenSocial deployments:Netlog shipped OpenSocial apps to users throughout EuropeHyves, a social network popular in the Netherlands, …
To complete the ramp up of the OpenSocial Foundation, we need your input: the OpenSocial Foundation has two board seats that are to be filled by individuals representing the community. If you have someone in mind for the board:Apply to become a member …
As promised a few months ago, the OpenSocial Foundation is up and running. This organization seeks to ensure that OpenSocial will remain implementable by all, at no cost, in perpetuity. This Foundation will also help nurture the real power behind OpenS…