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The Google+ API Is Released

Posted by timothy on from the expanding-circles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Developers have been waiting since late June for Google to release their API to the public. Well, today is that day. Just a few minute ago Chris Chabot, from Google+ Developer Relations, announced that the Google+ API is now available to the public."

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  1. Read only by Trillan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't wait to see all the interesting ideas developers have for using this read only API.

    1. Re:Read only by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It is kind of lame. All you can do is read what's on someone's page. This will make screen-scraping easier.

      Interestingly, it's all JSON. XML seems to be on the way out for API interfaces.

  2. Cool. Just in time for Google to EOL Google+ by blair1q · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google+ didn't bring the gamechange.

    It's a ghost town.

    You can see Linus Torvalds and the Google Twins there, but hardly anyone else ever posts. And they don't much either. Linus' last post is 9/6, and Sergey's is 8/28, and Larry's is 8/13...

    Google needed more than a convention hall. It needed to emcee the convention. Now we have an API, and maybe some people to P it, nobody to A it.

  3. Re:Too little, too late? by blair1q · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're not going to use the word "fuck" in plaintext when you're pseudonymized, then why the fuck do you care if you use your real name or not?

  4. Re:Cool. Just in time for Google to EOL Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just because they don't post to you doesn't mean they don't post. I have hundreds of posts, but each one of them is private so my public profile looks empty. I don't know anyone who makes public posts. That's kind of the entire point, which you appear to have missed.

  5. G+ games by jDeepbeep · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Games on G+ can also reward you for spamming/recruiting your friends. Angry Birds on G+ for example will keep levels locked until you and your friends have a cumulative total of stars to unlock them, so naturally you want to get more people playing. Another game lets you ask for hearts to continue gameplay and equally you can donate hearts. The difference here though is people in your circles will not see all this game stuff unless they are also in their games stream.

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  6. JSON by jDeepbeep · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not to mention, the spec for JSON fits on one side of a business card, readably.

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  7. I tried , i really did... by who_stole_my_kidneys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was hoping that Google+ would be the next best thing, and pop the bubble that is FaceBook. but its not going to happen, most people that would have wanted to move, tried G+, and left sin no one was there and the people who haven't heard about G+ don't care enough to switch. So unless the new API can cook my dinner and wash my clothes and give me a hand job, there is no reason to switch since all the people i care to talk to (and allot of people I don't) are on the FB, ill just stay until it becomes myspace.