Posts Tagged with ‘apis’

There’s been a great deal of positive buzz being made over the OpenSocial development platform Google recently unveiled.
And there’s also an ample amount of consternation being voiced about the new open standard. In particular, there exists some skepticism of Google’s (and it’s partners’) ability to employ firm and practically insurmountable security measures for OpenSocial, to ensure that the free flow of personal – and in some cases confidential - information remains under a solid set of locks and [...]

There’s a great deal of talk surrounding recent news coming out of Mountain View as of late. Understandably so. In the last week or so, we’ve seen revealed a number of grand projects by Google: one having to do with the development of an open Web platform, dubbed OpenSocial; another having to do with a software-specific mobile project. (Yesterday, Google publicly divulged the outline of that mobile project, now known as the Open Handset Alliance.)
And there’s also been ample chatter [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, beware.
So some members of the press are saying, anyway. Just days ago, Google laid its social networking plans out on the proverbial table, which it has called OpenSocial, and in doing so received quite rapturous applause. OpenSocial delineated a future in which multiple entities, many of which have already been known to spar with one another in the highly competitive forum that is the technology world?s social sphere, battle for greater shares on a more level, more [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

Months after Facebook opened its doors to third-party developers and effectively claimed a near majority of headline space for a good portion of the year because of it, MySpace’s CEO Chris DeWolfe and his overlord, Rupert Murdoch, stood upon the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit to announce their company’s own intentions to do the very same.
MySpace plans to make an official debut when it’s finished polishing its new platform, a point it will reach in “a couple of months.”
There’s [...]

In a bid to reach more consumers at a time at which the Internet application appears more and more capable of managing tasks ordinarily best performed by desktop-based utilities, Napster plans to abandon its current distribution model for one entirely Web-based. The move will allow both active and any future Napster users to play music obtained through the service - which will continue to operate via a subscription system - from any computer with a broadband connection and open [...]

Yahoo!, in a seeming bid to make its name more attractive to greater swaths of developers throughout the world, debuted last year the first in its series of Open Hack Day events in September in its hometown of Sunnyvale, California, followed by a London event in June of this year, and most recently at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India, last weekend.
The Asian edition of Open Hack Day, held on October 5th, brought together roughly “100 Web developers, who toiled [...]

Word in the blogosphere has it that LinkedIn may follow in Facebook’s footsteps and provide APIs to developers. Clearly such a move would simply be an attempt to parallel Facebook’s growth (percentage-wise, of course).
But would opening up be a good thing for LinkedIn, particularly as it is the preeminent network on the Web catering to “the business crowd?” Businesspeople are after all less accepting of adventurous and experimentalist initiatives. But if LinkedIn takes similar pains to vet third party [...]

One can toss many companies into the circle of “Web platform providers.” Yahoo!. Microsoft (MSN). Google. They’re all part of the group. Many more are classifiable as such, too. Amazon is a platform provider. As is eBay. PayPal, existing for many years under the tutelage of eBay, even gets to hold the title itself. The list is expansive; the names mentioned here are only the most prominent of the bunch.
Why do we mention these companies? Because apparently a researcher by [...]