Realmadrid.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Real Madrid Executive Vice-President Antonio Medina Cuadros and Costa Rican Minister of Housing and Human Settlement Fernando Zumbado have signed a Letter of Intent to open a Social Integration Academy in the Central American country.
ZD Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Looking to not repeat the privacy panic occurring when the company launched Beacon, Facebook has excused itself from participation in Google's recently unveiled Friend Connect. On the Facebook Developers blog, Charlie Cheever says Friend Connect, Google's Open Social-based program allowing webmasters to integrate social networking features on their sites, doesn't measure...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
For those who were at the OpenSocial summit yesterday, here are the slides from my RESTful API talk: In a nutshell, the OpenSocial RESTful API is a catalyst that enables participation in a much larger and more complex ecosystem .
Inside Facebook (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Google hosted the OpenSocial Summit today at its home offices in Mountain View to discuss the state of the OpenSocial API and the roadmap for version 0.8. Amongst the many presentations by containers and app developers, Hi5 shared some very interesting stats on the Hi5 Platform. These are some of the first stats on the Hi5 [...]
OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Posted by Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate At yesterday's OpenSocial Summit, imeem ( www.imeem.com ) announced that it has launched as a new OpenSocial container. imeem is the 3rd largest and one of the fastest growing social networks in the U.S., with over 24 million unique user visits per month. The site enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with all types of online media....
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
San Francisco - Music-focused social network imeem on Wednesday released support for Google's (NASD: GOOG) OpenSocial on the imeem Media Platform, the site's third-party developer platform. With the addition, developers will now be able to port their existing social media applications created through OpenSocial to imeem, which counts over 24 million users. read more...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Jesse Farmer -- the Facebook developer who last week wrote about slowing Facebook app development -- now tells CNET that Google's (GOOG) OpenSocial, whose members include MySpace (NWS), has cut into Facebook developer activity: And the kicker came in early February, Farmer explained, when "OpenSocial stopped sucking as much." Medium-size and large social networks like MySpace.com...
Snipperoo (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Marc Andreessen points out what Friend Connect is, isn't and how it's really all about widgets (as usual). Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web Friend Connect is a mechanism by which Open Social gadgets can be published and...
The Real Paul Jones (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Marc Andreesen, Ning founder explains why Ning, Friend Connect (aka GFP) and the Open Social protocol are all part of the same big web-connected package. See my post from yesterday.
OpenSocial API Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate With yesterday's announcement of Google Friend Connect, making any website into a social website is now much easier. Website owners can paste a small bit of JavaScript into their site, adding social features for their users without having to write any code themselves. For OpenSocial application developers, this gives you a whole new audience for your apps,...
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Developer Programs Fellow OpenSocial developers, I'm happy to announce the opening of the iGoogle developer sandbox , which supports both OpenSocial and an updated version of the gadgets API. The iGoogle sandbox supports OpenSocial 0.7, including friends and activity streams as well as a home and canvas view of your gadgets. Later, iGoogle will support the...
FinanMart.com - IT News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
TechWeb Software Update - Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Google's Friend Connect To Spread Social Data The software is part of an emerging set of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, and MySpace. Sponsor Join InformationWeek for a FREE Live WebCast Sponsored by Nokia In this webinar, you
pepperjamBlog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The face of social media as we know it is about to change. Within the past week MySpace, Facebook and Google all announced plans to make social media more portable by opening it up to third parties. So what does that mean exactly? Great question Kat! (why thank you) I had to [...]
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Google released Friend Connect , a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative "OpenSocial," and also adds social features to a given site which connect the site to the social network site of a user. The latter, Google argues,...
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Enrico Giubertoni | 01/04/2008
Norad Tracks Santa is a site in which you can see Santa Klaus while he makes his deliveries for the good kids in real times through Google Earth and Google Map .
