December 21st, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Peter Chane, Group Product ManagerStarting yesterday, hi5 began rolling out two new music applications from iLike and Qloud. hi5′s 70 million registered users will be able to use the iLike and Qloud applications to play their favorite songs a…
December 21st, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
December 14th, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Elizabeth Yin, Developer ProgramsMany people have asked us to help promote their OpenSocial events; for example, Jesse Stay, co-founder of the Utah Social Media Developers Garage, recently asked if we could help him get the word out about his…
December 12th, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWe’re thrilled to tell you the initial commit to the Shindig repository is in. This is the first of many steps towards providing infrastructure for those wishing to host OpenSocial apps on their websites. In case …
December 6th, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Stephanie Liu, Developer ProgramsYou’ve probably seen the Campfire One video (or caught the highlights) with some of the demos, but you may have missed our in-studio interviews. I recently got to sit down with a bunch of developers who have …
November 28th, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerAs OpenSocial evolves, we’re eager for websites to be able to host OpenSocial apps. To that end, we released an in-memory container sample which includes an early glimpse at the Service Provider Interface (SPI) la…
November 21st, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Graham Spencer, OpenSocial TeamWe’ve been getting great feedback on the 0.5 version of the OpenSocial API. One of the top requests we’ve heard from application developers is for a non-spoofable version of IG_FetchContent. See below for our c…
November 15th, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Elizabeth Yin, Developer ProgramsMany of you have expressed an interest in having the raw materials presented at Campfire One on November 1st. To that end, we’ve now posted the following: Higher quality video files of Campfire One, split …
November 14th, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Developer AdvocateLawrence Sinclair and Sudha Jamthe recently asked us to host a Facebook Application Development Meetup to discuss OpenSocial, a common set of APIs that enables social application development. We’re happy to…
November 13th, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by: Elizabeth Yin, Developer ProgramsWe’re excited to see that hi5, Ning, and Plaxo have OpenSocial sandboxes up and running live, which means that an application can now run on multiple websites. For example, previously, Songs iLike could run …
November 9th, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Cassie Doll, Software EngineerAs promised in the last post, we’ve just released an open source container sample. It’s an early version, but should give you some idea of the Service Provider Interface (SPI) we will provide to any website which…
November 8th, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWe’re thrilled to see how much interest there is in websites hosting OpenSocial apps. While we’ve posted a fair number of articles and docs on how to build social applications, we know that there isn’t a lot of do…
November 2nd, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Elizabeth Yin, Developer ProgramsI like social networking–it’s really fun. But beyond the entertainment value, the demos at Campfire One (our launch event for OpenSocial that took place yesterday) just blew me away. Demo after demo showed me…
November 2nd, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Amar Gandhi and Peter Chane, Group Product ManagersThere’s no denying that the web enables communication. The killer apps of the web — email, instant messaging, blogging — have enabled us to communicate with our friends, family, and the res…