In Google Developer Day 2008 in Beijing in yesterday, Kaifu Lee announced Google’s OpenSocial strategy in China.
In addition to MySpace.cn, CityIn and Tianya.cn, seven other Chinese social networking sites will jointly promote OpenSocial platform on their sites, including Xiaonei, 51.com, Douban, Hainei, Tianji, Yiqi.com and a web-base online casual game website 51wan.com. So both Xiaonei […]
The South Korean social network IDtail has just opened their OpenSocial driven website to all users. This is the first OpenSocial container in Korea, and it launches with four locally developed applications. AhnLab, the developers of IDtail, are holding a conference on OpenSocial on June 13th at the COEX grand ballroom in Seoul, with over […]
After Myspace.cn and CityIn, another website in China joins OpenSocial arena. Tianya.cn.cn, one of the most popular BBS forum in China, announced that it launched OpenSocial platform on late May.
We heard many social networking sites started OpenSocial platform, maybe this is the first time you hear a BBS site has a OpenSocial platform. Actually, it […]
Coca-Cola quietly launched one of their first social media applications last weekend, a bookmarking widget for Facebook called CokeTag. (Coke Singapore also has a Facebook application out, promoting a tie-in with UEFA EURO 2008.) CokeTag is not only a smart play from the company, but also a fairly useful app as far as profile widgets […]
When Google launched it OpenSocial plan in last year, Tianji.com is the only one from China on the partners list. But we did not hear any news on Tianji’s OpenSocial development. Now CityIn.com, an emerging SNS, announced its OpenSocial-based developer platform, more details can be found here.
However, I’m somewhat skeptical on CityIn’s initiative to adopt […]
Adobe is planning to release a security update for Flash Player 9 next month (April 2008). Adobe informed Facebook that this update can potentially break Platform applications that use Flash.
If any of the following situations apply to your application, then your application could be affected by the update.
You use sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the […]
Here something new from Lou Moore, hi5 Director of Engineering.I’m here to share some exciting news from hi5…Today we launched a robust new application development platform that enables developers in the OpenSocial community to more easily create, deeply integrate and increase the success of their applications on hi5. As a leading international social network (#1 […]
WordPress parent company Automattic hire-acquireed social networking plug-in suite BuddyPress.
After we published our Facebook Application Platform report, we heard from a lot of people. One of them was Shelly Farnham.
The Google Technology User Group will get together for OpenSocial with hi5.