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Friendster deploys OpenSocial support

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Asia’s favorite social network Friendster, Inc. announced that it has deployed the OpenSocial standard APIs as part of the Friendster Developer Program. Companies and individual developers can now use the OpenSocial standard to introduce their applications, or features, to Friendster’s 75 million users around the world.

OpenSocial support is a significant enhancement and extension to the Friendster Developer Program. Friendster was only the second major social network to launch a robust developer platform. Since its launch, over 10 million unique users have added “apps,” most users add several apps, and about half a million apps are being added by users to their profile pages each day. There are thousands of developers registered for the Friendster Developer Program, there are about 2,000 members of the Friendster Developer Platform Group on Friendster, over 450 apps have been deployed on Friendster, and thousands more apps are currently under development by third-party developers.

Originally posted on August 19, 2008 @ 2:16 pm

Yahoo! supports OpenSocial, joins Google and MySpace

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opensocial.pngYahoo!, MySpace, and Google have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web. Yahoo!’s support of OpenSocial and role as a founding member of the new foundation are landmarks for the rapidly growing specification which will now offer developers the potential to connect with more than 500 million people worldwide.

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction.

Originally posted on March 25, 2008 @ 10:49 am

Hackathon on hi5 Platform set

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hi5 is gearing up for the launch of its open-source development platform with the industry’s first-ever, bi-national hackathon on March 15. The day-long hi5 hackathon will bring together over 200 commercial, independent and student developers, who will code new hi5 applications, socialize and share their work from two locations in the U.S. and Mexico: the Google Campus in Mountain View, California; and the Campus Estado de Mexico of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Joining the developers will be representatives of hi5, Google, Globant, ITESM, and Joyent.

By supporting OpenSocial, a simple and practical set of open technologies, hi5 encourages developers to build innovative applications. Working with hi5 introduces developers to millions of users they are able to reach more easily with the OpenSocial APIs.

Originally posted on March 13, 2008 @ 10:30 am

Will Yahoo join Google’s OpenSocial?

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opensocial.gifBeleaguered online company Yahoo might be sucking up to Google for there are rumors that it plans to join the Google-initiated OpenSocial alliance, a set of APIs that will allow interoperability among participating sites.

According to New York Times, Yahoo’s involvement will expand the user base of this open standards initiative since it has the “largest group of users and the largest base of registered users.” Other sites involve are popular social networking sites such as Bebo and MySpace.

A company spokeswoman declined to confirm this rumor but said Yahoo is supportive of open standards as evidenced by its participation in OpenID and Apache Hadoop.

Since Microsoft is incessantly harping on interoperability, why not join OpenSocial so EU will go easy on them.

Originally posted on March 12, 2008 @ 8:53 am

MySpace launches platform for developers

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MySpace announced the launch of the MySpace Developer Platform Site, giving software developers around the world the chance to deeply integrate into MySpace. The MySpace Developer Platform Site is a place for developers to connect and learn about, build, test, and deploy MySpace applications. As a founding partner of OpenSocial, MySpace is expected to empower developers with an open standard for building MySpace applications to foster innovation and creativity on the Internet.

Originally posted on February 5, 2008 @ 4:00 am