With so many different types of websites adopting OpenSocial it has become clear that a “one size fits all” approach isn’t appropriate for the OpenSocial spec. Containers have different types of data they want to make available to clients (sometimes it…
Greetings…As many of you know, IBM is committed to building and advancing open standards and platforms. Openness fosters an ecosystem of innovation, promotes customer choice, and allows enterprises to build solutions that best meet their needs. We’…
As one of the leading social networking sites in China, renren has always been a close partner of OpenSocial, following all the product and technology progress of OpenSocial. After one month of intensive development and testing, the renren Open Platfo…
Let the games begin! At last night’s Ning Appathon kickoff event at the Ning offices in Palo Alto, Ning started a week-long worldwide app development competition for the recently launched Ning Apps platform.WHAT: The Ning Appathon is a week-long OpenSo…
To continue the momentum from our recent Ning Apps launch — our Apps program based on OpenSocial — we’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a special developer event called the Ning Appathon at our offices in Palo Alto, CA on Thursday, Novembe…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Annyonghaseyo!My name is Kyle Kim and I work on the Open Cyworld project at SK Communications in Korea. We are very excited to announce that we plan to adopt OpenSocial for Cyworld, which is the biggest social networking service in Korea with more than…