Archives Tag: Google OpenSocial

Upcoming Google Developer Conferences

Google has two upcoming developer conferences which are worth noting. The Google Developer Hackathon @ the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2008, will be about various open source technologies. Some of the include hacking OpenSocial, OpenLayers, and some Google App Engine applications. The second conference is a bit more specific to Google’s OpenSocial. This OpenSocial hackathon [...]

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Google Introduces Friend Connect

Early this week, Google introduced a new service named Google Friend Connect. “Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.” Here are some of the main points that the new service [...]

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Yahoo! to Support Google’s OpenSocial

Mashable reporter, Stan Schroeder, brings this one to us here at Google Inside. Yahoo! is said to be supporting the OpenSocial initiative that Google started four months ago. As a recap, here is a quick list of sites/companies already supporting OpenSocial. Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, [...]

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OpenSocial’s 45 Minutes of Fame/Shame

According to ZDNet.co.uk, “The first application launched under Google’s OpenSocial API program has been taken down, shortly after it was discovered a hacker could use it to change user profiles.” This gives me mixed feelings. Was Google either A) in a rush to get out the door with this code B) sloppy with the release or C) well, there is no C, but it’s good to have 3 in a list. This isn’t like Google to put out a product that can be hacked within an hour of its release. The attack happened to Plaxo’s network when “…a developer who uses the nickname “harmonyguy” alerted Plaxo’s vice president of marketing, John McCrea, to a vulnerability in the RockYou “emoticon” application that Plaxo allowed on its platform as part of Google’s OpenSocial API (application program interface) program.”

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Google to Compete with Facebook Through OpenSocial

Google is ramping up to compete with social networks, primarily targeting Facebook. But when you really look at it, Google is targeting the entire Internet community. “It is so hard to sneak up on the top dogs these days. A decade ago, the approach to thwart an upstart was to bundle, give product away for free and use your girth to squash a smaller rival. Think Microsoft meets

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