Friendster just deployed OpenSocial, v0.7, as part of the Friendster Developer Program. OpenSocial applications can now be introduced to over 75 million Friendster users around the world, 55 million of those are in Asia – Friendster has the largest soc…
Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot of interesting things happening in the broader OpenSocial community. Here are some recent updates: orkut has completed its OpenSocial rollout for users worldwide, Webon was just launched by Lycos supportin…
Today Glam Media is happy to announce the upcoming Glam Application Platform with support for OpenSocial. Glam Media is a network of 600+ high-end content publishers, with over 77 million monthly visitors globally. The Glam Platform will serve third-pa…
Posted by Shawn Shen, Developer ProgramsDo you use popular JavaScript frameworks like Prototype or jQuery in your OpenSocial applications? Do you share the pain your users might feel when they have to download a popular library like prototype.js yet a…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWow — Google Developer Day in Beijing has kicked off with a bang for OpenSocial! We’re really excited to welcome several new networks to the OpenSocial community: 51.com, 51wan.com, Douban.com, Hainei.com, Tianji…
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateThe South Korean social network IDtail has just opened their OpenSocial driven website to all users. This is the first OpenSocial container in Korea, and it launches with four locally developed applications. Ahn…
Posted by Shawn Shen, Developer ProgramsWe’d like your feedback on how to improve the OpenSocial ecosystem and we’d very much appreciate it if you could fill out this survey.First, please tell us a little bit about yourself. Second, we’d like to know h…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerGood news: OpenSocial v0.8 has been fully specified! This represents the next evolution of the OpenSocial API, which was scoped, specified, and built via an open process run by the community. The best news is that…
Posted by Jason Costa, Developer ProgramsThanks again to everyone who came out for last week’s OpenSocial Summit. For those that were not able to make it, we covered a variety of topics in depth, including a discussion around the proposed v0.8 draft sp…
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateWith yesterday’s announcement of Google Friend Connect, making any website into a social website is now much easier. Website owners can paste a small bit of JavaScript into their site, adding social features for…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerAs a follow-up to the post earlier this week, we’re now only a few days away from the OpenSocial Summit happening on Wednesday, May 14th at the Googleplex (1400 Crittenden).We’re looking forward to discussing the …
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerOn Wednesday, May 14th, we’re hosting an OpenSocial Summit at the Googleplex (1400 Crittenden Lane) in Mountain View.There has been a lot happening with OpenSocial since the last event at Six Apart in San Francis…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerNow that I’m back from OpenSocial’s London Hackathon (write-up, pics), and meeting fellow Shindig folks at ApacheCon EU, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some important happenings in the community:Just a…
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsFellow OpenSocial developers, I’m happy to announce the opening of the iGoogle developer sandbox, which supports both OpenSocial and an updated version of the gadgets API.The iGoogle sandbox supports OpenSocial…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerEarlier we mentioned that this Sunday, the 6th of April, we will be running an OpenSocial app develoment hackathon in London.BT has graciously volunteered to host this event at BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street. London…