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Google's OpenSocial Platform Releases

Posted by Zonk on from the everybody-needs-somebody-some-time dept.

shadowmage13 writes "Google just announced that starting tonight, developers can start writing applications using the social API for Orkut, MySpace, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial. Will Facebook give in?" There is quite a bit of analysis of this announcement available in yesterday's discussion.

6 of 137 comments (clear)

  1. No SDK or Docs for Implementation, Though by duerra · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sure, Google released documentation for how to write these kinds of apps, but they have yet to release any documentation for sites looking to implement the APIs. This kinda limits its proliferation. I work for a fairly large social network, and thus far we have not been able to even get started on writing an implementation OpenSocial yet.

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  2. Re:How many of those have you heard of? by Albanach · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure which two you mean? Myspace - 100 million accounts Livejournal - 14 million accounts Orkut - 67 million accounts Firendster - 50 million accounts LinkedIn - 15 million accounts Salesforce.com - 1 million subscribers Tianji - 700,000 members For context, Wikipedia reports that Facebook has 42 million accounts as of October 2007. Now there's certainly some variation, and probably lots of duplication amongst accounts, but seriously, these are big sites, with huge traffic figures. TO dismiss it as one or two and the rest you've never heard seems a tad petulant.

  3. Re:Duh by owlnation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes. But they aren't currently number one. And they most certainly won't be after the others network together. But thanks for playing anyway...

  4. Re:Again, no! by shadowmage13 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're right :) It was actually just a typo-- i actually meant to say "Google's OpenSocial Platform Released"

  5. Re:How many of those have you heard of? by SEE · · Score: 2, Informative

    Six Apart is the parent company of LiveJournal, just like Google is the parent company of Orkut and News Corp. is the parent company of MySpace. Now, whether Six Apart's participation means LiveJournal participation . . .

  6. Re:Oh my! by Silver+Gryphon · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the future, you could use this as a painful lesson that sometimes Google is a great source of information on the random link posted by an unknown person. I speak from experience as one who has been burned in a similar manner.

    A Google search for the domain name reveals a warning that even I won't ignore.

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