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24-May: OpenSocial article on DevX.com

DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to OpenSocial and how to write OpenSocial aware gadgets and applications. Read the full artile OpenSocial: the power of social networks in your applications , or see my full list of articles for other topics.

OpenSocial, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on standard HTML and JavaScript, simplifies the creation of web-based applications that interact with social networks. Launched by Google in November 2007, the OpenSocial APIs are supported (or in the process of being adopted) by a number of different social networks, such as orkut, MySpace, Yahoo! , hi5, and Friendster. Thanks to such broad support, a developer has to learn the APIs only once to be able to contribute applications to all these different social networks. Through OpenSocial, you will be able to interact seamlessly with your orkut communities and friends, write applications that leverage your shared interests with your friends on MySpace, and so on.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Sat May 24 06:35:43 -0400 2008