Posted by Lou Moore, hi5 Director of EngineeringI’m here to share some exciting news from hi5…Today we launched a robust new application development platform that enables developers in the OpenSocial community to more easily create, deeply integrat…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerGood news: some OpenSocial folks are headed to London, so anyone and everyone is welcome to come learn about OpenSocial and get your hands into some code.On Sunday, the 6th of April, we’d like to invite all of you…
Posted by Wade Chambers, Yahoo! VP of PlatformsHi Everyone! At Yahoo! we’re really excited to begin collaborating with the entire OpenSocial community. As we mentioned in the press release and on the media call this morning, we are big believers in i…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerCongrats to MySpace and the thousands of hardworking developers in the MySpace sandbox — OpenSocial apps have gone live on MySpace! This marks the second phase of the MySpace Developer Platform where developers c…
Posted by Jason Cooper, Developer ProgramsLooking to kick off this summer with a bang? The Google Developer team recently announced a two-day gathering for developers keen on discovering a wide variety of products and tools that will help shape the web…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerEarlier this week, you may have read that hi5 is holding a hackathon on Saturday. It turns out that this hackathon is actually going to happen in two countries! While some of us are busy writing code and eating pi…
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer Programshi5.com, an international social network, is very far along implementing OpenSocial as part of their developer platform, and they’re gearing up to launch OpenSocial apps to 80 million users, spanning over 20…
Posted by Chris Schalk, Developer AdvocateJohn Panzer recently posted a draft proposal for the highly-anticipated OpenSocial RESTful API, enabling server to server communication between OpenSocial containers.The proposed API defines a language-neutral …
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateAs thousands of designers, developers, film makers, indie rockers, entrepreneurs and geeks begin to descend on Austin, Texas for this year’s South by Southwest, I’m looking forward to a non-stop flurry of panels…
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerFollowing up on the discussions at the recent hackathon, OpenSocial 0.7′s API specification has been finalized. The best news is that, based on numerous discussions with both app developers as well as container si…
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateWhen developing for OpenSocial, the developer groups, the Shindig list, the Caja group, and this blog are probably the first places you look. However, being able to chat live with other developers is often very …
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerLast week’s hackathon at Six Apart was a great opportunity to sit down with engineers from a good mix of containers supporting OpenSocial as well as chat with app developers about what they’re planning to build. F…
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateOn Wednesday, January 16, Six Apart is hosting an OpenSocial Hackathon in their office at 548 4th Street in San Francisco from 4pm to 11pm.With the OpenSocial 0.6 release and Shindig and Caja to try out, this wi…
Posted by John Hjelmstad, Software EngineerTo help bootstrap Shindig, we’ve been heads down over the past few weeks working to contribute more JavaScript functionality to Shindig’s Gadget Container JavaScript (for background about Shindig, please c…
Posted by Cassie Doll, Software EngineerWe’re pleased to tell you that the OpenSocial JavaScript API version 0.6 has been defined, which updates the initial OpenSocial release to include what we’ve heard to be the most immediate pain points. As per the…