New Features for OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs

krunal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:38:00 GMT

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 the finest applications on the web. Some of these new features are not part of the previous MySpace REST APIs so this should encourage you to switch to 0.9 if you haven’t done so already.

The link to the main resource page for REST 0.9 APIs is located here. Please find documentation links and highlights of these new features below. Please review our Terms of use, especially Section 10.2, before you start using these features.

New Endpoints

StatusMoodComments

This endpoint provides a way to fetch the comments posted on a user’s StatusMood updates. It also provides a way to request the comment author’s basic info (image, name and profile URL) along with the comments themselves. This could reduce the number of calls to the server you need to make if you plan on displaying the commenter’s data along with the comments.

Please see details here.

ProfileComments

This provides a way to fetch the comments posted on a user’s profile. It also provides a way to request the comment author’s basic info along with the comments, which again will reduce the number of calls to the server if that information is needed.

Please see details here.

MediaItemComments
You can now fetch comments posted on a user’s images and videos. Again, this endpoint allows you to fetch the comment author’s basic info to save a second request to the server.

Please see details here.

Enhancements

StatusMood

The StatusMood endpoints now offer APIs to fetch friends’ status mood updates as well as provides a way to fetch StatusMood history.
Apps can also fetch recent comments on a user status in the same call.
MySpace now allows syncing/updating StatusMood from various sources like Twitter. You can get that information in your requests.

Check the documentation for the StatusMood APIs here.

Also don’t forget to check out the filters that this endpoint has to offer.

Activities

We are also adding Activity Streams extension properties to activities returned from our OpenSocial 0.9 Activities endpoint in this release. Activity Streams is a data format that describes what people are doing around the web, for example: posting photos and videos, sharing music with friends and writing blog entries. If you are already familiar with the Activity Streams atom format, you can now access all the Activity Streams goodness, like actors, verbs, objects and object-types, in JSON and plain old XML. Find more information about Activity Streams on the http://activitystrea.ms web site.

Check out the MySpace implementation for the same here.

SDKs

Our PHP and Java SDKs have been updated to support these new features and the others are in the works. Also, these new features are developed using Open Standards like OpenID, OAuth and OpenSocial which should help make your experience smooth.

Also, if you have missed out, visit this earlier blog post for more information about complete suite of REST 0.9 APIs.

Happy coding!

MySpaceID implementation launched on the new Yahoo! homepage

Kiam — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:00 GMT

A MySpaceID implementation launched yesterday on the new Yahoo! homepage. One of several “Apps” Yahoo! has been testing since March as part of its new homepage, the MySpace application enables users to keep up to date with the information and people they care most about.

After logging into MySpace from the new App on the Yahoo! homepage, users can simply hover their cursors over the MySpace icon to get quick access to their MySpace friend updates, friend requests, and even manage their MySpace status, mood and more – keeping users engaged with what’s happening on MySpace.

This app is a great example of MySpaceID’s ability to leverage MySpace’s extensive social platform on other sites, and we’re pleased to see the momentum around the product continue.

MySpace is part of the new features of the Yahoo! homepage that include:

My Favorites – People can easily choose MySpace from a dashboard of apps and add it directly to their homepage. The apps give people the ability to preview, interact with, or navigate to MySpace from one easy check-in point.
Social Updates – People can now share their current “status” with friends directly from the Yahoo! homepage, as well as see what their friends are doing on MySpace.

Please take a minute to try out the app by visiting the new Yahoo! homepage and logging in with your MySpace credentials. If you don't see the new Yahoo! home page with the MySpace icon, click on "See the New Yahoo" in the upper left hand corner.

-- Kiam on behalf of the Open Platform Team

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New Features for OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs

MySpaceID implementation launched on the new Yahoo! homepage