OpenSocial

2 November 2007 23:14 (EST)

Today Google officially launched OpenSocial, a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web. OpenSocial allows developers to write an application once that will run anywhere that supports the OpenSocial APIs.

Discussion (6 comments)

	brian:	3 November 2007 00:13 (EST)
	I hear myspace will be using this - hope they won't be abandoning coldfusion. it's always good to say "well myspace uses it" when someone asks about what coldfusion is.
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	Dmitry Yakhnov:	3 November 2007 01:08 (EST)
	It looks like Facebook should join the party too
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	Raymond Camden:	3 November 2007 01:36 (EST)
	Anyone have an idea when they will be really open? I went to look - but it said it is just specs now. Hard to write code w/o a real backend to hit.
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openid.mrbuzzy.biz:

3 November 2007 16:25 (EST)

For now the closest you'll get is to sign up to the Orkut test run. Here's the OpenSocial sign up page;

http://code.google.com/support/opensocialsignup/

Dmitry Yakhnov:

4 November 2007 01:21 (EST)

Hey Ray,

	Dmitry Yakhnov:	4 November 2007 12:43 (EST)
	I've just got an access
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