Google’s new open system API, OpenSocial

Posted on November 1, 2007
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Google has announced the availability of an open system API, named OpenSocial. The API will enable developers to create applications that run on social networking sites. The OpenSocial common API will use javascript and html to access profile and friends information, feeds and activities from a social network. It has been reported that early OpenSocial participants are LinkedIn, hi5.com, Friendster and Ning. The implementation of OpenSocial using javascript and html is a plus for developers. Unlike Facebook where developers have to learn a non-standard mark up langugage, which makes the code unusable outside of Facebook, developers will be able to easily use existing their existing knowledge of javascript and html to quickly create applications using OpenSocial.

The API should be available at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial when it is live. I believe it will be made live to developers next week.