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• OpenSocial State of the Union on May 12th

  It's hard to believe another year has passed. As such, it's time for another State of the Union for OpenSocial. OpenSocial has grown and changed quite a bit over the last year. No longer is it just a platform for a few social networks to allow... Posted Apr 20 2011, 05:25 PM by Chris Cole with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial

• Open sourcing the Myspace gadget renderer

  Myspace has always been committed to open standards and the open Internet. The Myspace Developer Platform team is now taking it a step further and will be open sourcing our internally developed Myspace OpenSocial Gadget container. Now there will be a... Posted Dec 07 2010, 09:03 AM by Chris Cole with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, gadget, open source

• OpenSocial State of the Union Summit on May 18th

  This has been an amazing year for OpenSocial. The spec group hammered out the full release 1.0 version of the OpenSocial specification, we cleaned up the APIs, and added a templating system. MySpace launched a major revision of the open platform with... Posted Apr 28 2010, 11:31 AM by Chris Cole with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial

• Book available: Building OpenSocial Apps

  At MySpace we want to provide as many resources as possible to developers to help them build great, social applications. As an augment to the resources currently available (like the MySpace developer site ) I’m happy to report that a new book, "Building... Posted Jan 22 2010, 12:09 AM by Chris Cole with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, OpenSocial Book

• OpenSocial 0.9 OSML and Data Pipelining Beta Launch

  Today we are announcing the public beta of OpenSocial 0.9 with OSML and Data Pipelining. For off-site developers and API-based apps, we've had OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs available for a few months, go check it out. This beta launch today represents... Posted Dec 04 2009, 12:30 PM by Chris Cole with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, OpenSocial 0.9, OSML, Data Piplining

• New Features for OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs

  Hi everyone, We are extending our 0.9 REST API offerings by adding new endpoints as well as adding new features to existing endpoints to make our 0.9 offering richer. We are committed to exposing data through Open Standards so app developers can create... Posted Nov 17 2009, 04:38 PM by krunal with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, REST, Activities, activity stream, myspace open platform, ActivityStreams, MySpaceceID, ActivityStrea.ms

• App Notifications Beta Release

  Developers can now generate custom notifications from their applications. App Notifications are generic one to one communications from an application to a specific User of that application. In addition to providing a framework for communicating general... Posted Apr 20 2009, 05:10 PM by my␣ CodeStorm with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, messaging, notifications, ACC, Bryan Green

• MySpaceID and the Importance of Building on an Open Stack for the Social Web

  At MySpace, we recently released several critical new feature enhancements to MySpaceID, a product under the MySpace Open Platform. We delivered OpenID support, an OpenID/OAuth Hybrid experience, and support for syndicating “Friend Updates” via the emerging... Posted Apr 07 2009, 02:23 PM by 8BitKid with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, oAuth, 8bitkid, myspaceid, mop, myspaceopenplatform, ActivityStreams

• Content Rewriting in OpenSocial 0.9

  Content rewriting is a new feature defined for OpenSocial 0.9. It allows a container to optimize some aspects of an application for use within that container. Before I explain what the feature does, we need to take a look at how OpenSocial applications... Posted Jan 29 2009, 12:00 PM by Scott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial

• What's New in MySpace OpenSocial 0.8

  The spec for OpenSocial 0.8 has been finalized and MySpace’s implementation has been released. There are some key benefits that 0.8 adds over 0.7 on the MySpace platform. The JavaScript container more closely conforms to the spec and some MySpace specific... Posted Jan 08 2009, 01:09 PM by Chad Russell with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Example Code, documentation, OpenSocial, Activities, open canvas, 0.8

• OpenSocial 0.9 Albums API

  One feature we added in OpenSocial 0.9 is Albums. Albums include MediaItems: photos, movies, and songs. Several of the containers out there, including MySpace, already had different views of what an album is. For example, on our platform you can access... Posted Jan 07 2009, 08:00 AM by Scott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial

• Looking Forward to OpenSocial 0.9

  The OpenSocial 0.9 draft has been defined. We are awaiting prototypes of all the new features before we declare the draft final. That means that, unless the spec is ambiguous or impossible to implement, the documentation is largely done. The set of changes... Posted Dec 17 2008, 02:00 PM by Scott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, REST

• Understanding opensocial.IdSpec

  The latest iteration of OpenSocial on MySpace, OpenSocial 0.8, sets a number of places where you now need to understand this JavaScript class known as opensocial.IdSpec. Before, when you needed something like the viewer or owner from an OpenSocial 0.7... Posted Dec 01 2008, 10:00 AM by Scott with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial

• NOTABLE MUSING – OpenID, OAuth, and User Experience

  I believe OpenID is turning the corner into the ‘mainstream’. More importantly, I believe the “Open Stack” is starting to blossom here at MySpace! [Photo Credit: John McCrea] While I’ve been intrigued with OpenID since I first saw it added to LiveJournal... Posted Oct 25 2008, 02:53 PM by Allen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: OpenID, OpenSocial, oAuth, data availability, Google, MySpace, Yahoo, UX Summit, Plaxo

• SAVE-THE-DATE: THUR, NOV 13th, 2008 – MySpace San Francisco Office – OpenSocial - 1st Birthday Celebration

  OCCASION: OpenSocial's First Birthday! DATE: Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at the MySpace San Francisco Offices Hard to believe, but OpenSocial is just a few weeks shy of being a full year old! To celebrate, we're getting together to look back... Posted Oct 20 2008, 09:13 PM by Allen with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: OpenSocial, Google, MySpace, Yahoo, MDP, Birthday, Party