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- OpenSocial's birthday wrap-up: it's good to be oneNovember 24
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A little over a week ago, the OpenSocial Foundation celebrated -- along with 250+ close friends -- the one year anniversary of the introduction of OpenSocial. It was a great opportunity for everyone involved to get together and reflect on the past year, brainstorm about what's in store for the next year, and write a bunch of code.
To wrap things up, there were several good sessions:- OpenSocial State of the Union [ VIDEO | SLIDES ]
- OpenSocial 0.9 Preview [ VIDEO | SLIDES ]
- Several app developers sharing their experiences and tips
- Updates from more than a dozen OpenSocial containers
- Demos of tools available that improve the OpenSocial developer experience
- Breakout sessions about OpenSocial 0.9, various app architectures, and using OpenSocial "outside" containers
- The day after, there was also a well-attended deep dive to discuss the prototypes for OpenSocial 0.9
- OpenSocial's First Birthday: Detailed Agenda -- November 13 in San FranciscoNovember 7
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As blogged before, next Thursday, November 13, is the official event for OpenSocial's first birthday being hosted by the OpenSocial Foundation at MySpace's SF office (SOMA).
As you can see from the complete agenda, it's filling out to be quite a day. Some of the highlights:- OpenSocial: State of the Union
- App Developers sharing their experiences:
- PhotoBuzz, RockYou, and PixVerse
- OpenSocial Dev App, zembly, and iWidgets
- How many containers can you get running on?
- Engineers from around the world will be on-hand to help
- ... including: hi5, Hyves, iGoogle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, orkut, Viadeo, Yahoo!
- ... amo
- OpenSocial Foundation: The Election Results Are in!November 5
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The OpenSocial Foundation community representatives election has concluded. With 311 eligible voters and 213 valid ballots cast, the community has selected Jay Parikh, and Joseph Smarr to serve as the two community representatives for this year's board. Congratulations to Jay and Joseph!
By way of introduction...
A bit about Jay Parikh:Mr. Parikh is passionate about technology, platforms, and leading innovative product development. Currently, Mr. Parikh is the Senior Vice President of Product Engineering at Ning where he oversees the product development, engineering, and operations teams. This team is responsible for creating and scaling Ning's social networking platform that today powers nearly 500,000 social networks. Prior to joining Ning, Mr. Parikh was the Vice President of Engineering at Akamai Technologies. During his nine years at Akamai, Mr. Parikh led the product engineering teams responsible for many of the distributed delivery and acceleration solutions used by the majority of Akamai’s customers.
A bit about Joseph Smarr:Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. He is currently leading Plaxo’s “Open Social Web” initiative to put users back in control of who they know when using socially-enabled sites by using open data-sharing standards. An active participant in the Web 2.0 community, Joseph has built web applications for many years, including Plaxo’s onl
- 51.com 开放平台 launches OpenSocial to 31M+ unique usersNovember 4
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The 51.com platform team announced that the 51.com Developer Platform launched OpenSocial support on Oct. 18, and successfully ran a live OpenSocial app called Emote developed by RockYou, becoming the first large-scale social networking site in China to successfully do so.
The 51.com Developer Platform currently supports OpenSocial APIs for accessing user and friends' profile info and enables application development using the OpenSocial 0.7 JavaScript API. 51.com plans to continue adding features to their OpenSocial platform, starting with support for the REST and RPC protocols, as defined in OpenSocial 0.8.1.
For those interested in developing OpenSocial applications, you may implement your creative ideas on the 51.com Developer Platform, gaining instant access to 31.5 million active users on 51.com.
To learn more about OpenSocial application development on 51.com, go to the OpenSocial developer community on the 51.com Developer Platform.
51.com provides social networking services to Chinese users worldwide. It is the fastest growing social network in China and has consistently taken a leadership role in providing products and services and advancing related technologies in the social networking industry.
51.com currently has 130 - LinkedIn Launched InApps Platform with OpenSocialOctober 30
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I’m happy to report that LinkedIn just launched their Intelligent Applications Platform (InApps), built using the OpenSocial 0.8 specification. This initial release features a healthy set of productivity applications, which provide new avenues for collaboration across the 30 million users on LinkedIn. It's exciting to see LinkedIn paving the way for a whole new type of OpenSocial applications, and thus expanding OpenSocial into the professional context.
The apps available today come from companies such as Amazon, TripIt, SlideShare, and Google. You can start using the applications by visiting the LinkedIn Application Directory. LinkedIn works closely with each developer to ensure a good user experience and chooses partners based on the professional utility of applications, the quality of technology and content, and the integrity of the company’s privacy practices.
For those interested in building applications on LinkedIn, there is a lot of good news:- As part of OpenSocial 0.8, LinkedIn deployed a REST endpoint with OAuth support
- There are unique monetization opportunities for apps built for LinkedIn
- LinkedIn is offering support for all of the "viral" messaging channels defined in OpenSocial:
- requestSendMessage
- requestSh