Posts Tagged with ‘opensocial’

The MySpace Developer platform, announced last June and expected to have launched much earlier than now, will finally be launched on Tuesday, February 5th according to sources at the company. Beginning today, programmers can pre-register for the MySpace API program
Amit Kapur, who has been promoted to be MySpace's new Chief Operating Officer, will oversee the new platform and has already mentioned that the API will support Google OpenSocial from the start, though few other details have been released. It has [...]

Strange how social networks behave today.
Bebo, a network with a strong member base in the UK, today announced its partnership with Facebook ? yes, partnership ? through which the two competitors will engage in cross-platform cooperation in the Web application space. Cooperation with one another only.
Yes, ?tis true. The company thought for weeks to be well in pursuit of the common OpenSocial goal some dozen online entities have espoused to hold allegiance to, Bebo has now come out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]