Tomorrow should be an interesting day as Google and others (SalesForce.com, NING, LinkedIn) are set to announce a set of API's to build private labeled and water cooler social networks.
It looks like (from TechCrunch) OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks:
* Profile Information (user data)
* Friends Information (social graph)
* Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)
Partners are in two categories: hosts and developers. Hosts are the participating social networks, and include Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle.
The details can be found at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial when they go live? Which should be in a few hours? Let's hope.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
OpenSocial :: The next phase of a social networking framework
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