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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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 OpenSocial development competition with prizes for both original and ported applications. Judges include Ning Chairman and Co-founder Marc Andreessen , Wired...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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, November 5th from 6pm-10pm. The event will include: An overview of Ning Apps and our OpenSocial implementation Presentations from existing Ning Apps developers...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
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 Shindig into JIRA 4. I'm writing today because we've got some cool news for all you gadget developers out there. But before I mention that, I wanted to...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
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 specification. These three goals will yield more consistent results, fewer errors, and means that your code should be even more portable to other social...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
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 "mixi apps" which is based on OpenSocial to all of our users. As of September 4th, more than 220 apps have already been registered...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
In just over two years, social applications have greatly enhanced the user experience on social networks. The number of app installs among social networks has climbed into the billions, creating an industry with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. In this series of blog posts we are going to cover a wide range of topics such as business models, characteristics of successful apps, best...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Today we released Ning Apps, or third-party applications based on OpenSocial 0.8, that serve as new, rich features for our 1.5 million+ Ning Networks and 33 million users. Thanks to OpenSocial and more than 90 Ning App developers, our Ning Network Creators now have an even greater choice over the features and applications they can add to Ning Networks to make them exactly right for a given topic, interest...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Annyonghaseyo! This is Kyle Kim from Cyworld with some exciting news! We have recently launched Dev.Square a sandbox environment for Cyworld developers. In celebration of the launch, we had a big announcement conference in Seoul with over 750 people attending (see the photos here ). I'd like to thank everyone who attended the conference as well as those who contacted us after reading our previous post...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
Those of you who were around for the early days of OpenSocial might remember that one of the very first test implementations ran on iGoogle. Since that early version more than a year and a half ago, the iGoogle team has worked hard to get the experience right. Today we're pleased to announce that, starting this week, iGoogle supports OpenSocial gadgets in both the US and Australia. The 19 social gadgets...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Hello, my name is Matthias Häsel , and I am a Senior Product Manager at XING , the leading European online business network. Over 8 million members use XING in 16 languages to do business, find jobs, and further their careers. XING helps members find contacts and stay in touch with them with customized networking solutions and services. It gives me great pleasure to announce the XING Partner Ecosystem...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
I am pleased to announce that Sonico, one of Latin America's leading social networks, has successfully rolled out its OpenSocial container to over +39 million users! A fantastic group of launch partners, including Buddypoke and GameDesire, worked with us for this initial release! Sonico is one of the leading social networks in Latin America, and is positioned as the second largest social network in...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Avatars United is pleased to announce the launch of the Avatars United Developer Platform and its OpenSocial container! The Developer Platform was initially made available to selected developers two months ago, but is now open to everyone. Background Avatars United is a social network for virtual world avatars launched in early 2008. The site was built in recognition of the fact that strong bonds and...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Hello, my name is Hidetaka Yamashita, and I am in charge of mixi's OpenSocial Mobile project. I am very happy to announce that mixi has recently added support for mobile phones to our OpenSocial platform. mixi.jp is currently the most popular Japanese social networking service (SNS) and has more than 17 million registered users. You may have heard about our recently launched OpenSocial developer sandbox...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Apache Shindig aims to make it simple to create your own OpenSocial container by providing an open source implementation (in both Java and PHP) of the OpenSocial APIs. The Shindig team recently made creating and maintaining an OpenSocial container even easier, by publishing a release that supports OpenSocial v0.8.1. Now, instead of checking out a specific revision or trying to keep up with the ever-changing...
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OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
The current generation of social applications has become increasingly interesting and attractive, with many apps sporting fancy animation effects and complex user interactions. One exciting result of this trend is the growing number of ActionScript developers in the community. To support the development of OpenSocial apps using ActionScript, we are happy to introduce a new client library which exposes...
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