Today, social app developers must submit their applications on each of the dozens of OpenSocial containers in order to leverage the full potential of OpenSocial’s wide distribution. Likewise, it’s difficult for new containers to tap into OpenSocial’s l…
There will be a number of sessions on OpenSocial at Google I/O this week and we’ve assembled several panels of industry leaders, from top app developers to the biggest containers, and even some folks from the enterprise world. It will be a great chanc…
This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O.As a Platform Evangelist at salesforce.com I have the enviable job of evaluating various technologies …
One of the major updates to OpenSocial in the latest version is a new programming model that allows you to send social data directly from the container to your application’s server, where you can use the data to render any content you want to show the …
A new version of the OpenSocial Specification hit the presses yesterday — packed full of new features to make writing, testing, and maintaining apps much easier. From a streamlined JavaScript API, to a more efficient way to communicate between the app…
OpenSocial v0.9 is coming right along, and we’ve prototyped some new features so that app developers can try them out. This stage in the iterative process is crucial to ensuring that containers are improving their OpenSocial platforms by adding the fe…
WeekendApps was like a codefest on overdrive organized by a grassroots team of 9 people – Sudha Jamthe, Shuchi Rana, Waleed Abdulla, Alexandros Pagidas, Van Riper, Max Marmer, Carol Tran, Jason Cooper and David Doolin. Over the course of the weekend, m…
A couple months back, the Gmail team added a few Labs experiments that let you add gadgets to Gmail’s left nav. One of these experiments allows you to add any gadget by URL (i.e. pasting in the URL of its XML spec file). While the UI for adding gadget…
It seems like a no-brainer to create a social network for the OpenSocial community, so we’ve used Ning to add some social features to www.opensocial.org. Here are some of the cool new things you can do on the site: Run OpenSocial apps! Since Ni…
Yesterday Yahoo! unveiled a set of new features and opportunities for both users and developers across many of our most popular products. Earlier this year at Yahoo! we made a commitment to re-wire our products based on a new platform initiative, calle…
The new OpenSocial Community Wiki provides one central place where we can all collaborate and build a comprehensive set of resources for OpenSocial. Check out the wiki today and you’ll findan editable API Referencea bunch of Articles & Tutorialsa c…
Want to include Google Calendar events in your app? How about letting users interact with Blogger, Picasa, or YouTube? You can do all this and more by integrating with the Google data (GData) APIs. There is even a JavaScript client library so you ca…
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut teamWe’re getting ready to start deploying support for OpenSocial v0.8 on the orkut sandbox. Since there are some significant changes with v0.8, we’ve created prod.sandbox.orkut.com to help you maintain your existing a…
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut teamThis week we have a guest author on the orkut developer blog. Sugumaran Uppili, from the Games2win team, will share some insights on how to use orkut communities to interact with your users and market your app…Sl…
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut teamIn order to deliver great apps to orkut users, the orkut team has put together some developer guidelines for you to follow. Being familiar with these guidelines will not only help your app get approved faster, but …