It’s been a little over a year since Google announced OpenSocial, a common API for social applications across multiple websites. It’s an aggressive undertaking: an underlying technology designed to ...

The whole premise of efforts like OpenSocial is that social business activities should not be isolated from the work going on in other applications. While everyone is off looking at Google+, the last ...

[Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed piece by Lee Lorenzen, an investor in Facebook applications.] Last week, Google hosted a meet-up for Facebook application developers. The goal of the event was to ...

OpenSocial started out as a way to blend consumer Web application data over the Internet, but it also has use behind the firewall, as Atlassian found. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Vysr, developer of RoamAbout browser plugin that allows users to access their favorite web content from any site, has fortified its product by adding OpenSocial applications to the fold. The widget, ...

With Google's OpenSocial plans out of the bag, I checked out how some of the chosen few--Slide, NewsGator, Ning and salesforce.com--think about the new APIs and how they plan to apply them. Slide is ...

Web application developers are in a tizzy over Google's impending announcement of an open social network platform. In conjunction with what Google terms "host" networks like LinkedIn, Friendster and ...

On November 1, 2007, Google launched OpenSocial, a set of APIs that leverage JavaScript and HTML for creating applications that access friends and update feeds from any compliant social network.

This guest post was written by Jay Simons. Simons is Vice President Sales & Marketing for Atlassian, the developers of JIRA, and issue tracker for IT project management, and Confluence, an advanced ...

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For those of you who thought OpenSocial was going to make things easy for developers who want to create social networking apps once and deploy them everywhere, think again. More splintering is ...