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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

iGoogle, the Start Page service from Google, is slowly turning into a platform for building social and commercial applications. In March, Airtel had partnered with Google to launch Airtel Live, built on top of iGoogle. Further, Google added the facility to share and collaborate on Google Gadgets through iGoogle start page. Today, Google has announced [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Good news for all Orkut fans and all the developers who were waiting for the applications to go live on Orkut. Orkut has silently made the applications live on Orkut profiles. In all there are 19 applications which are active at the moment and available for adding to your profile. The process works much like [...]
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Google had announced the launch of Orkut Sandbox to develop applications for Orkut in November 2007. Though the applications have not gone live on Orkut yet but developers are ready with their application to be deployed once Orkut makes the platform open. Here is the preview of all the 8 applications which are ready and [...]
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Frengo, provider of mobile social applications, now supports OpenSocial networks and has launched the OpenSocial Mobile Toolkit. The Frengo OpenSocial Mobile Toolkit will let the developers extend their OpenSocial applications to mobile users. The API can be used to develop notification based events for mobile phones and threaded messaging features for managing conversations from both [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008

hi5 has officially announced the launch of their Developer Platform which will allow developers to build and deploy their applications on hi5. Like most of other developer platforms, hi5′s developer platform provides a REST API along with the OpenSocial API (Application Programming Interface) which will facilitate rapid development and deployment of applications. With the API, [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Yahoo has joined OpenSocial according to the blog post on its website and a post on Official Google Blog. Google, MySpace and Yahoo are partnering to form a Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation which will ensure neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, free and community driven specification for building social applications. The non-profit organization [...]