OpenSocial
We have previously written about API and it’s one of the keywords of development in the last few months. When popular API are provided for the third-party innovators, there is a huge demand, as we can see with GoogleMaps and the over 4000 applications on Facebook itself.
With the growing availability of API it became more difficult to understand them all and that is why Google decided to simplify the development for websites and developers by creating one development platform called: OpenSocial.
The image is from google.com
This is how Google explains it on their website: “The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the APIs and host 3rd party social applications. Because it is based on the famous standard of HTML and Javascript it is easy to be learnt and quick to be applied. “
The following websites implementing the OpenSocial Standard are some websites which imply to revolutionize the development industry inevitably:
MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, und XING to name just a few of all participants.
If Facebook does not join this initiative we are bound to see an interesting competition.
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Tags: and xing, api, facebook, friendster, google, googlemaps, hi5, hyves, imeem, linkedin, myspace, ning, opensocial, oracle, orkut, plaxo, salesforce.com, six apart, tianji, viadeo
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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