July 25th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
SocialMedia.com is hosting a new event for application developers called “OpenThread” on August 15th. OpenThread is about stimulating community and conversation amongst developers around OpenSocial and its partner sites. The event is intended for curre…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
July 11th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
June 27th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Shawn Shen, Developer ProgramsA few weeks ago we posted a survey to collect feedback from the community to help improve the OpenSocial ecosystem. We are very grateful for all the responses and also appreciate your continued involvement in sh…
June 12th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateA couple of weeks ago, Google’s developer conference Google I/O was held in San Francisco and 3,000 developers came to listen, talk and hack together. If you couldn’t make it, or if you came but found that two s…
June 12th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
June 11th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
June 9th, 2008 | by Patrick Chanezon | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Developer AdvocateThis week we have 2 sessions about OpenSocial at the Graphing Social Patterns East 2008 Conference in Washington DC: OpenSocial + Google App Engine Technical Overview, 9:05am – 9:30am Wednesday, 06/11/2008O…
June 5th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
May 28th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Eric Staats, Principal Software Engineer, AOL During the “Meet the Containers” session at Google’s I/O developer gathering today, AOL announced its plans to support OpenSocial, beginning with the adoption of Gadgets on myAOL.com. Over the…
May 28th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
May 22nd, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
May 15th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Chris Schalk, Google Developer AdvocateAt yesterday’s OpenSocial Summit, imeem (www.imeem.com) announced that it has launched as a new OpenSocial container. imeem is the 3rd largest and one of the fastest growing social networks in the U.S., …
May 14th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…