OpenSocial API - The Future of Social Network Web Apps? (Open)SocialCampVancouver?
October 31, 2007 — GeraldGoogle will launch tomorrow (Nov/1st) a new open web API called OpenSocial that lets you build Facebook-like applications/widgets for any social network.
Google partners supporting the OpenSocial initiative include social networks such as: Ning, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster and others; and Facebook and social web application studios such as: RockYou, Slide and others.
Marc Andreessen (of Netscape and now Ning fame) covers the breaking news with a blog story titled “Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web“.
Vancouverite Boris Mann (who closed Vancouver’s Facebook Garage with an open Q&A about the Future of Facebook) comments with a blog story titled “Google announces OpenSocial - open API for connecting social networks“.
Tell us what you think about the new OpenSocial API. Comments? Thoughts? Join the Vancouver Facebook & Social Network Web Developer Forum and Mailing List.
If there’s enough interest in OpenSocial we will organize Vancouver’s first SocialCamp early next year. Stay tuned for updates.
October 31, 2007 at 9:59 pm
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November 1, 2007 at 2:12 am
[...] Vanajax Google partners supporting the OpenSocial initiative include social networks such as: Ning, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster and others; and Facebook and social web application studios such as: RockYou, Slide and others. [...]