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Google acquires Labpixies
Monday, April 26, 2010
Not everyone likes to start their day with just a search box and logo (no matter how cool it is!). Many users want email, videos, news, weather, games, and other information to be at their fingertips each time they open up a browser window. We launched iGoogle in 2005 to address this need by providing a truly personalized homepage with access to any RSS feed and well over a hundred thousand gadgets.
One of the first developers to create gadgets for iGoogle was
Labpixies
. Over the years, we worked closely together on a variety of projects, including the launch of a number of global
OpenSocial based gadgets
. Recently, we decided that we could do more if we were part of the same team, and as such, we're thrilled to announce the acquisition of Labpixies.
The team will be based in our ever-growing Tel Aviv office and will anchor our iGoogle efforts across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We are looking forward to working with Labpixies to develop great web apps and leverage their knowledge and expertise to help developers and improve the ecosystem overall.
In the meantime, have fun trying to beat me at
Flood-It
!
By Don Loeb, iGoogle Team
Hello to orkut Developers!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
As we
announced
in the last update to the former orkut Developer Blog last week, henceforth we’ll be posting all orkut developer updates to this blog.
We think this is also a good opportunity to quickly introduce the newly-launched
Developer page
to you. We recently added this feature to the orkut sandbox which we hope to be a one-stop solution for developers looking to manage their applications from a single page and view their stats. You can submit your apps directly from here and verify them to complete the submission process. You can also maintain your apps from here and migrate them to a new URL, or delete them entirely from the directory. And if you have applications that have already been approved and included in the directory, expand their details to track the number of installs, uninstalls, renders and other useful stats updated every week.
Here’s what it looks like in action:
Please note that the Developer page requires you to be on the new orkut UI to work.
So keep your apps coming and point your browser to the one page to manage them all:
sandbox.orkut.com/Main#Developer
. And stay tuned for all orkut updates right here on the Google Code Blog!
By Prashant Tiwari and Ridhima Kedia, orkut Team
iGoogle adds support for OpenSocial
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Developers using the OpenSocial API can now reach tens of millions of iGoogle users! As of this week, iGoogle now supports OpenSocial in both the US and Australia, with the plan to roll it out to more users soon. In general, we think "social is better" when it comes to the web - activities such as reading the news, doing a crossword puzzle, sharing a todo list, or watching a video are all better when done with a friend. These are all things that iGoogle users love to do, so making them social on iGoogle was the next logical next step.
If you're interested in getting started writing social gadgets for iGoogle, check out the
full announcement
on the iGoogle developer blog.
By Dan Holevoet, Google Developer Team
Presentations from Google Developer Days in Asia are now live
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Videos, presentations, and photos from our Google Developer Days in
China
and
Japan
are now live. China's event kicked off our 2009 GDDs in Beijing on June 5 and Japan's GDD was a few days later on June 9.
At each event, attendees had the opportunity to learn about products such as
Android
,
Chrome
,
OpenSocial
, and
App Engine
and interacted with Google developers during office hours. Developers even got a sneak peak of
Google Wave
!
By Alyssa Sachs, Google Developer Programs
Everybody's talking: the Social track at Google I/O
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
I had a great time at Google I/O -- meeting lots of developers from around the world who are interested in developing applications that use social data. In addition to building web applications for traditional social networks like orkut, MySpace and hi5, developers are also looking at enterprise and mobile applications which take advantage of the social graph, gadgets for Google's platforms like iGoogle, Google Calendar and Gmail, and gadgets for the 5 million websites and blogs powered by Google Friend Connect. We had some important questions raised in many of the sessions and also in the fireside chats with containers and app developers. It was exciting to see the whole OpenSocial ecosystem come together to discuss the current status and progress of social technologies, as exemplified by the
I/O Developer Sandbox
.
All the sessions at Google I/O were recorded, and videos and presentation materials are now available on the
Google I/O website
. Here's a little more info about the sessions in the social track:
Google and the Social Web
Daniel Holevoet outlined
all the ways Google uses social technologies
, highlighting those services which allow developers to extend them using the OpenSocial APIs. During his talk, Dan announced the new support for OpenSocial gadgets in Google Calendar, which include hooks into a calendar-specific API for accessing the currently-selected date range. Dan demonstrated the Quartermile OpenSocial application he wrote along with Arne Rooman-Kurrik and showed how the app could be used for different purposes across iGoogle, Gmail and Google Calendar and talked about how it could be used on any website via Google Friend Connect or on traditional social networks supporting the OpenSocial APIs. Of course, Dan didn't get to cover all the exciting news about Google's social initiatives during this talk-- a
real-time gadgets API
was announced during the Developer Sandbox!
Google Friend Connect Gadgets: Best Practices in Code and Interaction Design
Jonathan Terleski (lead designer on
Google Friend Connect
) and I presented this session on
best practices for building Google Friend Connect (GFC) gadgets
for the millions of websites and blogs using GFC today. We gave a brief overview of OpenSocial, followed by some design principles and a basic framework to think about when building GFC gadgets: what are the social objects, how do users contribute them, and how to users consume them? In the last part of the talk, I discussed how to use page context in your gadgets for content, skinning and language while showing some small bits of code to accomplish each. Most importantly, we announced the opening of submissions to the Google Friend Connect gadget directory and support for OpenSocial 0.9 in GFC gadgets.
Beyond Cut and Paste - Deep integrations with Google Friend Connect
In
this talk
, Arne Roomann-Kurrik and Chris Schalk talked about how they built the Plane Crazy site for flying enthusiasts and the Chow Down site for restaurant connoisseurs as example sites demonstrating how to integrate Google Friend Connect with existing login systems and add social functionality using the REST and RPC APIs. While these sites were built on top of Google App Engine (using Java and PHP), they talked about the other client libraries and raw protocols available for similar integrations. The Chow Down site is already open-sourced, and the Plane Crazy site will be shortly.
Google Friend Connect and the Real World
Patrick Chanezon led
this session
along with Shivani York, Henry Chan and Srivaths Lakshmi of
TIME.com
and Paul Berry of
HuffingtonPost
talking about how they integrated Google Friend Connect into their sites. Both TIME.com and HuffingtonPost used Google Friend Connect to create social lists where you rank the top items from the news, such as "Top 10 Movie Catchphrases" and "The World's Most Famous Swimsuits." Khris Loux, of JS-Kit, concluded the session by addressing why it's a good idea to integrate with Google Friend Connect and how the web is enhanced by having open API access to social data.
Building a Business with Social Apps
Shawn Shen and Chewy Trewhalla, Developer Advocates at Google, and Gerardo Capiel, VP of Product Management for the
MySpace Open Platform
, led this session showing
how developers can make a living by building social apps
. Virtual currencies, the recent OpenSocial extension proposal for a virtual currency spec and implementations on hi5, 51.com and other networks were discussed. In talking with a wide variety of developers and preparing this session content, our team learned even more about this industry, and we hope you can too.
Designing OpenSocial Apps for Speed and Scale
How do you use standard web optimization techniques in combination with existing and new features of OpenSocial 0.9
to develop a fast social application which scales efficiently
? Arne Rooman-Kurrik and Chris Chabot examined this question in great depth. They took the Quartermile application which they developed and dived into the bandwidth, cpu and monetary savings achieved by applying a variety of optimizations--from image spriting, to data pipelining and proxied content. From the naive implementation to the optimized implementation, they showed how you could improve latency by nearly 70% and drastically reduce the cost of hosting a social application.
The Social Web: An Implementer's Guide
Joseph Smarr
, Chief Platform Architect at
Plaxo
, led this
standing-room-only session
about the current state of the social web and how "The Web is now social... and the Social Web is now open." He recapped progress made in the last year, with the emergence and increasing adoption of a variety of technologies which make up the Open Stack: Open ID, XRDS-Simple, OAuth, Portable Contacts, OpenSocial. He gave many demos, including demonstrating the death of the "password anti-pattern" leading to a 92% conversion rate on users importing their contacts from sites supporting OpenID+OAuth and Portable Contacts.
Powering Mobile Apps with Social Data
Many people today have a mobile device which has internet access, and they probably use those devices as much (if not more!) than they use their computers. I explored the
different ways to use social data from the web
to enhance the experience users have with their mobile devices. I demonstrated and dove into the code of three different types of apps -- pure web apps targeted at mobile devices, a web app which uses some native GPS functionality via Google Gears and adding a social scoreboard to the "Divide and Conquer" open source native Android application. I then spoke a bit about the future of mobile development and how the features available between native applications and web applications are beginning to merge with the new HTML5 and W3C standards which provide access to native functionality such as databases, app caches and GPS location data.
OpenSocial in the Enterprise
Social networks are typically thought of as tools for personal communication, but they've increasingly become important in the enterprise world as well. Chris Schalk of Google led this panel along with representatives from
IBM
,
Salesforce.com
,
Oracle
,
eXo
,
SAP
and
Atlassian
to share the
ways enterprises have used OpenSocial technology
outside of and behind the firewall.
There's a wealth of new information in these presentations which were all prepared especially for Google I/O, including several new announcements. The presenters also developed quite a bit of code for Google I/O, which we'll be releasing as Apache-licensed open source projects over the next couple weeks. Stay tuned to the
OpenSocial blog
for those releases.
By Ryan Boyd, OpenSocial Team
MySpace Open Platform: Connect MySpace users to your site and to your apps
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
This post is part of the
Who's @ Google I/O
, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at
Google I/O
. Today's post is a guest post written by
Scott Seely
, Architect for the MySpace Open Platform.
MySpace will be talking about two big things at
Google I/O
this year:
MySpaceID
and
MySpace Apps
.
MySpaceID delivers social functionality and experiences by linking MySpace accounts with your site. These services allow users to quickly register using their MySpace credentials as well as post status messages, publish activities into MySpace, discover friends, and view MySpace activity and profile data on your site! The users’ friends see all these updates, which drive traffic to your site and attract new users to register. By leveraging MySpace’s social graph, you add virally to the buzz about your site and increase the number of visitors to it.
For a broad overview of MySpaceID, please watch this video:
We provide
SDKs for MySpaceID
. You can use the SDKs or directly use our REST endpoints. We have SDKs available for a variety of languages: PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, and JavaScript. This brings the benefits of MySpaceID to a wide range of developers. The JavaScript SDK runs on the client, all other versions run on your servers. These options allow you to achieve smooth workflows and reduce implementation costs by working with the skills you use as a developer.
MySpaceID supports both OAuth and the OpenID-Auth hybrid—you choose the mechanism that makes the most sense for your scenario. Both options are exposed in our SDKs. Once a user logs in and allows your site to access their data, you have access to a wealth of their MySpace data. The MySpace endpoints support Portable Contacts and OpenSocial 0.9 REST, giving you access to plenty of information.
MySpace Apps
provides developers with a canvas to create engaging social applications that are deeply integrated into MySpace. The applications are built using the
OpenSocial
specification, which we are evolving with partners like Google, and Yahoo!. With OpenSocial 0.9, you will see advances in markup, allowing you to remove much of your JavaScript and instead use OpenSocial Markup Language, OSML, to declare which friends you want loaded. This work all happens on MySpace’s servers, reducing calls for data and greatly improving the application experience. When you do need to contact your own servers, you can send Ajax calls through our proxies to your servers. These calls are all signed by the MySpace infrastructure so that you know the request came from a trusted source. The
MySpaceID SDK
allows your server to access and set MySpace user data in this scenario. So long as the user has installed your application, your servers can access their data.
These are some of the ways that MySpaceID enables you to leverage MySpace API’s off-site and let users into your site with their social media identity and data. Earlier this year, MySpace was the first social network to allow syndication of its users’ activity streams. We hope you are as excited as we are to be part of this fundamental shift in the portability of user identity and data on the Internet.
MySpace Apps
and
MySpaceID
are a lot more than what we’ve talked about here. We invite you to find out more by attending:
“Building a Business with Social Apps” – Gerard Capiel, VP of Product for the MySpace Open Platform, will share his experiences on monetization of apps.
Developer Sandbox
– Come by and see actual apps in action, try building an app on the spot, and talk to our developers.
Fireside Chat - Ask those hard questions, discuss approaches to problems, and think about the future with MySpace developers and the OpenSocial engineering team
We hope that you will come away convinced that MySpace is focused on empowering app owners and web site owners with the tools to succeed. See you at Google I/O!
Guest Post by Scott Seely, Architect for the MySpace Open Platform
Who's @ Google I/O - spotlight on the Social Web
Monday, May 18, 2009
Google is making the web a more sociable place by contributing to new standards and releasing new products that make it easy to integrate your website with the social web. We've invited a few friends that are helping build the social web to
Google I/O
so you can learn what's coming next and what it means for you.
Learn from successful developers
Social apps can grow up fast, and some have attracted tens of millions of users. We're planning sessions to help you understand the business side of social apps, and we'll have a panel where you can pick the brains of some of the biggest social app developers in the world.
Make some new friends
There's more to a successful social app than just a creative idea. From analytics to payment processing, there's a lot of code to write beyond the core functionality of an app. Luckily, companies have been springing up to fill the needs of this ecosystem. You can meet some of these new companies in the Developer Sandbox and see how their products can make your app better (and your life easier).
Meet the containers
One of the key benefits of
OpenSocial
is the incredible distribution it provides to app developers. Building your app on OpenSocial makes it possible to reach hundred of millions of users around the world. We've got sessions planned to let you meet the folks building OpenSocial platforms and learn more about what kind of apps work well in different social environments.
The next generation
IBM, Salesforce.com, Oracle, eXoPlatform, SAP, Atlassian - not who you'd expect to be speaking on an OpenSocial session. Speakers from these companies will come together to talk about how the enterprise software development community is bringing social concepts and technology like OpenSocial into the enterprise.
To see all the sessions we've got planned to help you learn about the social web, go to
http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html
, and search for 'social'.
*Keep up with the latest I/O updates:
@googleio
.
By Lane LiaBraaten, OpenSocial team
eBay's Farhang Kassaei announces "Selling Manager" as an OpenSocial gadget implementation
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
In this video, eBay Platform Architect Farhang Kassaei explains the details behind the launching of eBay's new
Selling Manager (beta)
, which uses OpenSocial's gadget technology to Google Developer Advocate Chris Schalk at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA on April 1st, 2009.
Farhang describes both why they chose to use
OpenSocial
and
Apache Shindig
, and how they integrated its gadget server technology into their platform. He also provides information on where gadget developers can go to learn more about eBay's new platform and how to get started building applications.
Farhang Kassaei is a principal architect at eBay Marketplaces where he leads eBay platform design and architecture. During his career with eBay Farhang has been responsible for multiple infrastructure initiatives including identity and access management, open platform, user verification and risk, messaging, user generated content and user graph analysis and infrastructure. He is also a member of eBay Enterprise Architecture team.
Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate on Google's Developer Programs team.
By Neel Kshetramade, Google Developer Programs
Google Narratives Series: BuddyPoke
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Continuing with the Google Narratives Series, we'd like to profile
Google App Engine
and
OpenSocial
developers, Dave Westwood and Randall Ho of
BuddyPoke!
Dave and Randall both have backgrounds in 3D and avatars for the last 11+ years, with work in various web 3D games, facial tracking, facial animation, and mobile avatars. They've worked at five companies together -
"Dave does all the technical stuff and I'm the technical artist."
Simply put, they complement each other perfectly.
Q: Tell us the story of how BuddyPoke was envisioned.
A:
We'd always worked for other companies, and disliked the company politics, etc, and always dreamed of just going and doing our own thing. When we saw the huge success of
Slide's slide shows
on MySpace, we quit our jobs and started work on a 3D pets widget. Facebook apps and OpenSocial weren't live yet and our first project failed miserably because we completely lacked a distribution model with viral channels. Fast forward a bit, and Nintendo Wii is huge with everyone making miis and talking about avatars. There was Playstation Home and Second Life. Also, the Simpsons Movie was just about to released and allowed for you to "Simsponize" yourself. We thought about the 30+ minutes people were putting into customizing their avatars, without any way of doing any cool interaction with friends. We also thought about the interesting fact that most people who installed these types of console games did it mostly for character personalization or "dress up," rather than to actually play the game. Bottom line, we knew we had to do something about it.
Facebook apps then started to take off, and OpenSocial came out. We closely watched what worked and what didn't on Facebook by looking at usage charts of the top 200 apps. After a lot of trial and error, we applied our 3D backgrounds to some of the ideas and came up with a way of doing the 3D rendering in Flash. That's when we came up with BuddyPoke.
Q: Describe your implementation and why you decided on Google App Engine.
A:
During the time that we were focused on researching app usage, we noticed that most apps were struggling with scalability. Their difficulties sounded vaguely familiar with our current implementation and we knew we needed to find a platform that would help us avoid the same issue, especially since we were working on the version for MySpace. The main thing here was timing with the release of
Google App Engine
and the announcement of
OpenSocial.
All of a sudden we found ourselves able to quickly roll out our app to the various OpenSocial sites without having to worry about scaling.
Q: Tell us about your overall development experience and any obstacles you have encountered along the way.
A:
When Google App Engine first came out, the big learning curve was BigTable. Our data models were horrible. Then, after watching Ryan and Brett's talks at
I/O
, we redid everything and it's running well now. Our only concern is the organization of our code on AppSpot - everything runs on one AppSpot site. If we knew ahead of time of our success, we would have broken the code up in groups to make updating easier. Also, our main ask is XMPP support so that we can implement chat on App Engine.
One last thing...we're thrilled about the success of BuddyPoke. The barrier to entry is so low from a developer's perspective. We never imagined having 3D characters seen by so many people, without having to even think about the technology behind them or without even having to buy a Wii.
We really enjoy hearing from developers in the community about inspiring stories, so if you have something you'd like to share, visit our
online submission form.
Better yet, come tell us your story at
Google I/O
. You can also check out Dave & Randall's cool story on the
Ning blog
!
Thanks Dave & Randall!
By Christine Songco, Google Developer Team
Google Friend Connect API Available in Labs
Thursday, March 12, 2009
By Mussie Shore, Product Manager - Google Friend Connect
Today we are excited to make the
Google Friend Connect API
available to developers. Google Friend Connect lets a site owner instantly awaken and strengthen the community that visits their web site.
Friend Connect has enabled tens of thousands of sites like naturalnews.com, and millions of blogs like paulocoelhoblog.com, to build their communities. Now, we are pleased to open up the service to the broader development community. With Google Friend Connect, two of our primary goals are to:
Make it easy
for every site owner to add Friend Connect to their site, regardless of their technical capabilities. We do this by letting site owners simply paste snippets of code into their websites' HTML to instantly provide social capabilities on their sites.
Be open
by letting visitors control their own data and freely share it with sites and services as they see fit. Services that are currently integrated with Friend Connect include OpenID providers like Yahoo!, social network providers like Twitter, and update aggregators like Plaxo Pulse.
The combination of ease and openness puts visitors and site owners in full control of their social information, activities, and relationships throughout the web. As a developer, the Labs release of our API lets you:
Use JavaScript APIs
to integrate social flows and data directly within your page's markup, via the
OpenSocial
standard specification.
Use REST APIs
to integrate your existing login systems, registered users, and your existing data with new social data and activities. These APIs are also part of the OpenSocial standard.
In addition, we have used the APIs to build
open source plugin samples
that integrate into popular commenting and content systems including WordPress, Drupal, and phpBB.
This release is documented in
code.google.com
. To take advantage of the the API on your site, go to www.google.com/friendconnect and visit the "for developers" section to grab the snippet that enables the new API on your site.
We're looking forward to hearing your feedback, and to seeing how the development community will combine their creativity, Google Friend Connect, and these APIs to enrich the open social web. Make sure to check out
Google I/O
on May 27 - 28 where you can meet the engineering team and learn more about the Google Friend Connect API.
Code Conversations Episode 2 - Kevin Marks with Brad Neuberg
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
By Neel Kshetramade, Google Developer Programs
A few weeks ago, Brad Neuberg sat down with Kevin Marks for an informal chat about technology, live video, the changes in software development over the last decade and OpenSocial. The video below is an edited version of their conversation, but if that only serves to whet your appetite, you can view the full version here (
Part 1
,
Part 2
). Be sure to look for the part in the video where Kevin talks about what it was like to work with
Douglas Adams
.
Intros:
Kevin Marks is the author of the popular blog
Epeus Epigone
. In his 20-year long career, he played a major role in the development of live streaming video as a member of the Quicktime team at Apple, founded the Multimedia Corporation and as Principal Engineer at Technorati, built the spiders that make sense of the web and track millions of blogs daily. Today, in addition to being a developer advocate for
OpenSocial
, he is also one of the co-founders and a driving force for
Microformats
.
Brad Neuberg is a developer advocate at Google for the Open Web. He has created a number of libraries and frameworks for expanding the capabilities of web applications and is a core member of the
Dojo project
. He blogs at
codinginparadise.org
.
This video is the second in our video series "Code Conversations". You can view the first episode, a conversation with Chris DiBona on open source software
here
.
2008 Year in Review
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
By Mike Marchak, Google Developer Team
Before looking back on this past year, we'd like to thank the developer community for your involvement and enthusiasm in 2008. Without you none of our accomplishments would've been possible and coming to work would not have been nearly as rewarding or exciting.
In 2008 the developer team at Google made it significantly easier for developers to build increasingly sophisticated web apps. Looking back, some of the most notable events from the last year include the
App Engine launch
,
GWT 1.5 launch
,
Chrome launch
,
AJAX Language API launch
,
AJAX Libraries API launch
and the
broad adoption of OpenSocial
.
We also worked hard to make it simple to integrate and extend Google applications through the launch of the
You Tube API
,
Visualization API
,
Maps for Flash API
,
Finance API
and
Custom Search API
.
We were also really happy to participate in the
Open Handset Alliance
where we saw the announcement of the
Android Developer Challenge winners
, the
Android 1.0 SDK launch
, and the first app downloads in the
Android Market
.
Our favorite part of 2008, however, was interacting with you at
Google I/O
and at
Developer Days
. These events allowed us to meet inspirational developers in 15 countries around the world who are building fantastic applications.
In 2009, we look forward to building products to make the web better and that let you, the developer community, build better apps on the web. We are already excited about seeing you at events next year.
Happy Holidays from the Google Developer Team.
iGoogle launches canvas view
Thursday, October 16, 2008
By Dan Holevoet, Developer Programs
We're happy to announce the launch of the
canvas view
feature to iGoogle users in the U.S., rolling out over the course of the day. The canvas view feature allows gadget developers to build richer content, games, and UI for iGoogle's tens of millions of users by allowing them to build powerful full-page applications. In addition, canvas view provides developers with the opportunity to monetize their gadgets.
To get started, check out the documentation and examples on the
iGoogle developer website
. The site includes detailed information about iGoogle as well as information on upcoming
OpenSocial
functionality.
Try out the updated version of
iGoogle
and check out some of the great
canvas view gadgets
developers have already built.
Developer sandbox for iGoogle launches
Monday, April 21, 2008
By Saurabh Mathur, iGoogle Team
Today, we're excited to open up a developer sandbox for
iGoogle
. The sandbox includes support for
OpenSocial
, a common API designed to let you easily build social applications that run on a growing number of web containers. The iGoogle OpenSocial container also supports
canvas view
, allowing developers to build powerful and feature-rich full-page applications for iGoogle's tens of millions of users.
To get started, please begin with the documentation and examples on the
iGoogle developer website
. The site includes detailed information about iGoogle and a guide to incorporating the new social features.
Watch as Jake walks us through the sandbox and shows how to build a basic gadget.
Sign up
for access to the developer sandbox and keep up-to-date with our new
iGoogle Developer Blog
.
Happy coding!
This Sunday (6th April): OpenSocial Hackathon in London
Friday, April 4, 2008
By Dan Peterson, Product Manager
On the heels of
hi5's OpenSocial launch
, this Sunday, the 6th of April,
BT
is hosting an OpenSocial Hackathon at
BT Centre in London
. This is an ideal opportunity to
get started building apps
with OpenSocial, or come and get a hand with an app you've already built. In addition, you'll be able to talk with engineers from Hyves, MySpace, Netlog, studiVZ, XING, and Google.
The event will kick off at 11:00am, though doors will open at 10:00am with a light breakfast. Full details are
available here
, or you can directly
RSVP here
.
An OpenSocial Foundation
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer Programs
Today we are pleased to
announce
that Google is joining together with Yahoo! and MySpace in the
creation of a non-profit foundation
for the open and transparent governance of the OpenSocial specifications and intellectual property. This foundation, modeled after the community-led and industry-supported OpenID Foundation, will seek to ensure that the technology behind OpenSocial remains implementable by all, freely and without restriction, in perpetuity. The establishment of the foundation is a necessary and exciting next step toward an open model for application syndication via an increasingly socially-enabled Internet, and
we invite and encourage your involvement
as we complete this process over the next several months.
Additionally we are pleased to be a part of the launch of
opensocial.org
, the new official home for the OpenSocial specifications and developer community. While we are still in the early stages of putting the new site together, we wanted to open the site and the process immediately for community feedback and review.
So please join us, Yahoo!, MySpace, and all of the other OpenSocial containers and application providers, in extending a warm welcome to the community in a spirit of collaboration and rapid iteration, as we move forward with the establishment of the OpenSocial Foundation and look ahead to the continued growth of the social web.
Wednesday in San Francisco: OpenSocial Hackathon at Six Apart
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
By Dan Peterson, Product Manager
On Wednesday (tomorrow!)
Six Apart
will be hosting an OpenSocial Hackathon at their
office in San Francisco
to let people get their hands dirty with
OpenSocial
,
Shindig
, and
Caja
. In addition to the Googlers working on OpenSocial, you'll be able to chat with engineers from at least hi5, MySpace, Oracle, Orkut, and Plaxo. The event starts at 4pm PST and will be going deep into the night -- so it's okay if you can't make it right on time. The office is conveniently located near Macworld, not to mention Caltrain, BART, and MUNI.
We'd love it if you could
RSVP on Upcoming
, though it isn't formally required. Be sure to bring your laptop and perhaps a few friends.
Of course, there will be copious beer and pizza.
An OpenSocial HappyHour party with Gears
Thursday, January 10, 2008
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs
Chandra Patni is an engineer at IGN who saw a good way to develop using OpenSocial. Some hacking later, and he ended up with
happyhour
, an open source OpenSocial container powered by Google Gears.
Brad Neuberg and myself got together with Chandra to discuss the project.
In the conversation below you will hear about:
How happyhour increases developer productivity when building OpenSocial components
How designers have been able to work with his OpenSocial applications with happyhour
How happyhour differs from another open source container,
Apache Shindig
His experience, and lessons learned using Gears
How he added support for ISO dates for Gears using SQLite
There is room for potential collaboration with Apache Shindig too. The projects can share the same data format, or happyhour could even hook into Apache Shindig in some way.
If you would like to make changes on the fly as you develop your OpenSocial applications, then give happyhour a look. Want to see a few more details about the code? Read more
over at the Gears blog
.
Brian McCallister on Ning, OpenSocial, and Apache Shindig
Friday, December 21, 2007
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs
When I read an email sent to an Apache Software Foundation mailing list suggesting an open source project for OpenSocial, I wasn't surprised to see it come from Brian McCallister, a prolific open source developer that I met years ago in a former life.
Brian McCallister now works at Ning, the social network outsourcer, and sat down to talk to me about topics revolving around Ning, OpenSocial, and Apache Shindig.
What will you learn from this chat?
What Ning is all about
Why Ning and Brian think about OpenSocial, and why developers should be interested
The parts and pieces of OpenSocial from the standpoint of a developer, and a third party container
How Brian thinks that we will get more than just "Write one, learn everywhere"
What Apache Shindig is all about
How Shindig allows you to do simple local development, which changes the game with respect to your development lifecycle
Google Developer Podcast Episode Eleven: OpenSocial with Patrick Chanezon
Friday, November 2, 2007
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs
The announcement of the OpenSocial project is really exciting, so I was really glad to drag Patrick away from his work to take some time to chat with me about it.
Using iTunes?
Patrick is easy to talk too, and I think that comes across in the interview itself. There has been a lot of pre-release speculation on what OpenSocial really is, and the press has put out wildly different ideas over the last couple of weeks. Patrick lays out the facts of the announcement.
He covers a lot, including:
What has actually been released
What OpenSocial
isn't
Details on the various APIs:
People Data API
: You can get access to owners and viewers, and their friends
Persistence Data API
: Store simple hash table data for the users using your application
Activities Data API
: Like the Facebook News feed
What it means to be an OpenSocial "container"
Fun social apps that Patrick has seen developed by the trusted testers
Sit back and listen to Patrick's dulcet French tones as he takes you through all things OpenSocial.
You can
download the episode directly
, or
subscribe to the show
(
click here for iTunes one-click subscribe
).
Also, check out video from the
Campfire One
event and interviews with a subset of the partners involved in the OpenSocial launch. Having a large number of application developers and container vendors show what they have already done gives you a glimpse to the future.
Now I want to record the next podcast
by the fire
.
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