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Google open social here I come!

There is a stack of resources available as google rocks into the social aplication arena. Google were always there of course - we’ve been able to build google gadgets for ever.

And lets not forget all of the other platforms we can build widgets for. The field is massive and people are only really beginning to realise how big it can be.

However, google has deployed an API that is an open standard. This means it dwarfs a piddly little 30 million facebook users… you can develop for anything that supports it. Actually there is no reason why you couldn’t build a Facebook interpreter for the OpenSocial API! Where is it people?

OK, well we might take a look at that.

But first lets concentrate on the other 200 million possible users sitting at their computers typing content and building social network on sites like Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, LinkedIn and a new one I only found the other day called Ning.

Ning is especially cool for a social network because at Ning, it isn’t about the site at all… really everyone is a member of Ning… but everybody is also a member of at least one of the speciality social network hosted inside of Ning. I took a look around some of the networks there… and there are plenty… of special note is the open social stuff network.

Google have also launched an open social API blog, to keep us up to date with the applications, containers and major events in our new open social calendar.

And once again I am left with too many links to really describe them all!
Orkut Open Social
Open Social API docs
Open Social Javascript docs

Orkut application anatomy - Orkut is really the Google sandbox arena… I’m not sure what Orkut looked like before I signed up to the Open Social developer program… or sandbox access - the only difference seems to be Applications, but I presume they are available for all Orkut users anyway?

Orkut Sandbox Perhaps this is what I got for my signup (it was free - so its ok).

HowTo create your first google gadget My understanding is it is basically the same.

Hi5 is another Social Network that is supporting open social… I add a where in the world are you google map, slide photo guestbook… it is pretty cool.. they stole the idea from me!
LinkedIn is supposed to support the platform, but perhaps they are doing it in a more closed manner to support their more mature clients?

Google gadgets dev guide

Google gadgets Hello world example - Google has a pretty cool developer interface that you can actually export, sort of like an open social application… in that you can plug it onto your iGoogle page if you want… I suppose you must be able to plug it onto other openSocial containers now? Or is there a difference between a google gadget and an open social application? I don’t think so!

Google gadget tools

Google open social container - if you want to host Open Social Apps.

Open social blog

Ning social network

The following google modules are open social examples, they need to be loaded into a supporting container, like iGoogle - but if you are techy, you’d rather see the xml anyway. Otherwise, try loading them into iGoogle (PS. they aren’t developed by me).
A random google module example from Ning. And a sudokupuzz google module.

A good summary of what Open social is and can do… from the ning blog…

Ahh…

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