Recent happenings in OpenSocial
July 22nd, 2008 | 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 supporting OpenSocial, and now more than a dozen sites ("containers") support OpenSocial in production, with a reach to 275 million users. There are also many other containers in the works, such as AOL, Friendster, LinkedIn, Netlog, and Yahoo! (hear from them and others in the Google I/O "Meet the Containers" video), and it was great to see that Glam.com is working to launch an application platform for their network that reaches 77 million monthly visitors around the globe.
On the spec front, we continue to work together to make OpenSocial the most developer-friendly way to build social apps:
If you have suggestions, questions, or comments, please get involved.
On the spec front, we continue to work together to make OpenSocial the most developer-friendly way to build social apps:
- With OpenSocial 0.8's RESTful API, OpenSocial is growing beyond its JavaScript roots and venturing into server-to-server sync and mobile access
- To help simplify implementation and adoption of both efforts, PortableContacts and OpenSocial's REST API are proposing technical alignment
- Looking further ahead, there is a prototype showing client-side templates in action, building off the OpenSocial templates specification
If you have suggestions, questions, or comments, please get involved.