Open Social: Googles new Javascript based Social Networking API

October 31st, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

It’s already everywhere that Google is releasing a set of API”s for building applications and integrations with social networking sites (Linked in & Orkut have alraedy signed on). Most interesting fro those of you reading this blog is perhaps the fact that they will be entirely javascript & html based (No server side coding). This could make hte entire process faster sand smoother for all of us.

We’ll know more tomorrow when the API is released at:

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial

4 Comments

Chris P
October 31st, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Hey Don, clicked on the link above and it didn’t go anywhere?
Don Albrecht
October 31st, 2007 at 3:41 pm

They aren’t officially releasing the API until tomorrow, When they do I’ve been told it will be at that URL.
Don Albrecht
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 am

Google has published the API’s and the link is now working.
A closer look at Open Social » By Don Albrecht » article » Ajax Bestiary
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 am

[…] you haven’t heard already, OpenSocial is a multi-vendor Social networking API similar to the Facebook API’s. It is also, a very different environment from the Facebook […]