Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 03 2008 | From Google Reader, facebook, opensocial
This is an interview with the developer of those zombie facebook apps. He has abstracted FB's interface and OpenSocial so that his new widgets are easily made to run on the various platforms.
Quoted: Large, well-funded companies are increasingly dominating the little world of Facebook applications. Slide and Rockyou for all-purpose applications, Zynga and SGN for social games, iLike for music. These companies have also moved aggressively as Facebookâs rival social networks began opening up their platforms to third parties over the last half a year
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 26 2008 | myspace, opensocial
Quoted: OpenSocial MySpace Application Demo - Chris Bissell by MySpace Developer Platform Watch it on MySpace Videos.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2007 | opensocial, development
Quoted: We're pleased to tell you that the OpenSocial JavaScript API version 0.6 has been defined, which updates the initial OpenSocial release to include what we've ...
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2007 | opensocial, google, development
Quoted: The OpenSocial API is a set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites. There are two ways to access the OpenSocial API: client-side using the JavaScript API and server-side using RESTful data APIs.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2007 | opensocial, google
:)
Quoted: All this song and dance and wait, and the only sites that can play host to all the "exciting new applications" being created using the OpenSocial API are those invitees to the GOOG shindig last night. I was thinking, "Ooh, I'll check out the API and see if I can get an OpenSocial widget or two running. That'll be fun and educational." Nope, it turns out that the container spec is totally missing in action. WTF?
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 03 2007 | ning, opensocial, marc andreessen
Quoted: Ning has gone live with full Open Social beta support as of this afternoon.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 01 2007 | facebook, google, opensocial, marc andreessen
Marc Andreessen on OpenSocial.
Quoted: With the Facebook platform, only Facebook itself can be a "container" -- "apps" can only run within Facebook itself. In contrast, with Open Social, any social network can be an Open Social container and allow Open Social apps to run within it.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 31 2007 | google, facebook, opensocial
NY Times piece on OpenSocial.
Quoted: For now, however, Facebook has become the preferred platform for software developers.
This is probably an overstatement.
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