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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Looking over the broad OpenSocial community, September was a very active month. In particular, there have been numerous OpenSocial deployments: Netlog shipped OpenSocial apps to users throughout Europe Hyves , a social network popular in the Netherlands, also launched with OpenSocial Several new developer sandboxes are available for early access and prototyping: Mail.ru , a large Russian email site...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
To complete the ramp up of the OpenSocial Foundation , we need your input: the OpenSocial Foundation has two board seats that are to be filled by individuals representing the community. If you have someone in mind for the board: Apply to become a member of the foundation Nominate someone for the board Nominations have been open since early September and will close on Wednesday, October 1, at 11:59...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Want to include Google Calendar events in your app? How about letting users interact with Blogger, Picasa, or YouTube? You can do all this and more by integrating with the Google data (GData) APIs. There is even a JavaScript client library so you can access Google data directly from your OpenSocial app. I've been working on an OpenSocial application that integrates with the Google Calendar data API,...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
As promised a few months ago, the OpenSocial Foundation is up and running. This organization seeks to ensure that OpenSocial will remain implementable by all, at no cost, in perpetuity. This Foundation will also help nurture the real power behind OpenSocial: the community of developers, containers, and everyone contributing to the specification . The curious among you are welcome to peruse the OpenSocial...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Hi, I'm Johannes Fahrenkrug, a freelance software developer and security consultant. When working with the OpenSocial API on one of my client's PHP servers, I wanted to be able to validate signed requests without including the text of the container's public key directly in my code. PHP doesn't offer a store for certificates, so I wrote a small article about caching a public RSA certificate in the server's...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
To anyone browsing the list of launched partners , it's clear that OpenSocial is a truly global initiative. In Europe, there's a lot of activity in the OpenSocial developer community. Take for example the Netherlands. A few weeks ago, Hyves and Google jointly hosted the first OpenSocial hackathon in mainland Europe. Fifty developers from all over the Netherlands, and some from the UK and Germany, gathered...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Do you wish you could develop and test your OpenSocial gadgets on your own local development machine or server? Or are you thinking of becoming an OpenSocial container but need an example of how you can get started? If your answer to either of these questions is "yes," you are in luck because Partuza was created to help with both of these problems. Partuza, a sample social networking site that supports...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Friendster just deployed OpenSocial, v0.7, as part of the Friendster Developer Program . OpenSocial applications can now be introduced to over 75 million Friendster users around the world, 55 million of those are in Asia - Friendster has the largest social networking user base in Asia. Friendster also plans to support additional OpenSocial APIs in the coming months, including the new v0.8 API. The...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
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 current OpenSocial developers and programmers who are new to the platform. OpenThread will be a mix of discussion followed by socializing. The discussion...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
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...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
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-party applications to Glam's network of publishers. Publishers and website owners will then be able to choose from a rich list of applications and embed...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Posted by Shawn Shen, Developer Programs Do 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 another time even though it’s been already fetched 33 times? Wouldn’t it be nice if you don’t have to worry about gzipping or minifying these libraries...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Posted by Shawn Shen, Developer Programs A 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 shaping OpenSocial. I'd like to share a brief summary of our findings. Preferred Timeline & Location of Future OpenSocial events Across the globe more...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Posted by Kevin Marks , Developer Advocate A 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 sessions you wanted to see were on at the same time, you can now see video and slides of many of the presentations at the Google I/O site . Here's the...
