Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot of interesting things happening in the broader OpenSocial community. Here are some recent updates: orkut has completed its OpenSocial rollout for users worldwide, Webon was just launched by Lycos supporting OpenSocial, and now more than a dozen sites ("containers") support OpenSocial in production, with a reach to 275 million users. There are also many other containers in the works, such as AOL, Friendster, LinkedIn, Netlog, and Yahoo! (hear from them and others in the Google I/O "Meet the Containers" video), and it was great to see that Glam.com is working to launch an application platform for their network that reaches 77 million monthly visitors around the globe.
On the spec front, we continue to work together to make OpenSocial the most developer-friendly way to build social apps:
- With OpenSocial 0.8's RESTful API, OpenSocial is growing beyond its JavaScript roots and venturing into server-to-server sync and mobile access
- To help simplify implementation and adoption of both efforts, PortableContacts and OpenSocial's REST API are proposing technical alignment
- Looking further ahead, there is a prototype showing client-side templates in action, building off the OpenSocial templates specification
If you have suggestions, questions, or comments, please get involved.
5 comments:
Hi, i'd like to know if you guys can tell me how much time does orkut directory take to aprove my app, after the submission. its been 2 days, and it wasnt yet aproved.
tks
@diego - We try to get apps reviewed in a few days, but it depends on how many submissions we get. Hang tight and we'll contact you with the results as soon as the app is reviewed. -Lane
Any tool avilable to develop opensocial Apps.. coz if i want to test a Aaps, i want to upload it on sandbox and check.. if any tool/or any easy way to testing aaps, plz get me the link..
tanx
Great blog! I was wondering if you had any good recommendations on Opensocial Widget Directories? I've had issues finding a good directory of Widget examples as of yet.
Thanks!
Hey Brandon,
Thanks!
For examples of applications, I know that hi5 has a very expansive application directory, and you can also look at the directories on sites like MySpace and orkut.
You want to look for the XML files that the apps are packaged in (and sometimes you will need to massage the URL to find the .xml source file).
Cheers,
-Dan
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