April 22nd, 2010 | by Mark Weitzel | published in Google OpenSocial
The OpenSocial Foundation cordially invites you to come and meet the developers and community leaders that are driving OpenSocial. This is your chance to learn more about what the various OpenSocial providers are doing and get involved in shaping the…
March 15th, 2010 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
February 4th, 2010 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
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’…
January 6th, 2010 | by Chris Chabot | published in Google OpenSocial
MySpace is hosting a developer event at our San Francisco office on January 14th where developers can come and learn about the MySpace Developer Challenge, meet the MySpace developer team, and hack away with us! This MySpace devJam “hackathon” is …
January 4th, 2010 | by Chris Chabot | published in Google OpenSocial
Calling all developers! MySpace is hosting the MySpace Developer Challenge, a competition aimed at encouraging further innovation from the developer community. We believe the best onsite and offsite integrations with MySpace are not here yet and the My…
December 30th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
December 22nd, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial emerged from the demands of consumer-facing social networking sites, including MySpace, LinkedIn, and Ning. The rise of online social networking, and the changing nature of the consumer web, have both made OpenSocial increasingly relevant to…
December 11th, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
Hello Readers, Mark Halvorson from Atlassian posting. A while back Atlassian announced its commitment to bringing OpenSocial to the Enterprise, since that time we’ve been working hard to get OpenSocial working in all of our products. In Oct…
December 8th, 2009 | by Chris Chabot | published in Google OpenSocial
MySpace is announcing the public beta of OpenSocial 0.9 with OSML and Data Pipelining.For off-site developers and API-based apps, we’ve had OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs available for a few months, go check it out. This beta launch represents the second hal…
December 7th, 2009 | by Chris Chabot | published in Google OpenSocial
Our three platforms studiVZ, meinVZ and schuelerVZ are Germany’s largest social network with close to 16 million users.We are proud to announce that our platform has OpenSocial 0.8.1 up and running. Developers can upload and test their Apps against ou…
November 6th, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
October 21st, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
September 23rd, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
Mark Halvorson from Atlassian Software here! You may have read my blog post a while back about Why Enterprise Software Provider Atlassian chose OpenSocial Atlassian. We’ve been working hard over the past year adding an OpenSocial container based on Shi…
September 22nd, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
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…
September 17th, 2009 | by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate | published in Google OpenSocial
Hello! My name is Yoichiro Tanaka, and I belong to the Platform Team of mixi, Inc. “mixi” is currently the most popular social networking service (SNS) in Japan and has more than 17 million registered users. I am happy to announce that we have released…