Build OpenSocial Apps for Social Change, Win Prizes
March 18th, 2009 | Published in Google OpenSocial
The Change the Web Challenge invites developers to create widgets and web applications that help people connect to opportunities to make a difference all over the web. It's a contest happening right now with $10,000 in prizes!
The Change the Web Challenge is being run by Social Actions - an aggregator of actions people can take to support causes, nonprofits, and progressive projects from more than forty different sites - like GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, Idealist.org and VolunteerMatch. Social Actions then makes these actions available in a common format and API.
Now we’re looking to get those actions out there on the web sites, blogs and social networks we visit every day.
That's where OpenSocial comes in.
OpenSocial is the key to the social web. By enabling you to build apps that help people connect to actions on the most popular social websites like hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netlog, Ning, orkut, and Yahoo! - you can help millions of people make a difference!
So the question we want to ask the OpenSocial community is:
What’s your dream idea for an OpenSocial app that helps people engage and interact around ways to take action?
Some ideas that might help get you started:
Got an idea?
We're also hosting an online chat, OpenSocial for Social Change on Wednesday, March 25th (11am-12pm PST) with guests Dan Peterson (President, OpenSocial Foundation), Jay Parikh (Secretary, OpenSocial Foundation + Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ning) & Maxwell Newbould (Product Developer for MySpace OpenSocial) to explore and brainstorm how OpenSocial's framework and apps can help create a better world. The chat will be open to everyone to participate. Please RSVP here.
The Change the Web Challenge is being run by Social Actions - an aggregator of actions people can take to support causes, nonprofits, and progressive projects from more than forty different sites - like GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, Idealist.org and VolunteerMatch. Social Actions then makes these actions available in a common format and API.
Now we’re looking to get those actions out there on the web sites, blogs and social networks we visit every day.
That's where OpenSocial comes in.
OpenSocial is the key to the social web. By enabling you to build apps that help people connect to actions on the most popular social websites like hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netlog, Ning, orkut, and Yahoo! - you can help millions of people make a difference!
So the question we want to ask the OpenSocial community is:
What’s your dream idea for an OpenSocial app that helps people engage and interact around ways to take action?
Some ideas that might help get you started:
- An app that helps you find and share (and maybe show off) actions on your favorite OpenSocial social network.
- An app that enables you and your friends to compete to see who can take the most actions.
- An app that displays the hottest actions on your profile for the issues you care about.
Got an idea?
- Dig into the Developer Resources
- Join Social Actions Developers Google Group
- Check out apps already submitted to the Project Gallery
We're also hosting an online chat, OpenSocial for Social Change on Wednesday, March 25th (11am-12pm PST) with guests Dan Peterson (President, OpenSocial Foundation), Jay Parikh (Secretary, OpenSocial Foundation + Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ning) & Maxwell Newbould (Product Developer for MySpace OpenSocial) to explore and brainstorm how OpenSocial's framework and apps can help create a better world. The chat will be open to everyone to participate. Please RSVP here.