Imeem Opens Music-centric Social API

John Musser, March 25th, 2008

Imeem, the third largest social network in the US, has just opened their “imeem Media Platform” for third party developers.


Yahoo Joining OpenSocial, NYTimes Report

John Musser, March 12th, 2008

The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo May Join Google-Led Social Networking Alliance. In the post from Miguel Helft, the word is that Yahoo intends join the Google-led alliance “as early as this week”. As we reported earlier today, there has been lots happening with OpenSocial and we’ll be hearing more shortly. Here’s more [...]


Viacom’s Flux Goes OpenSocial Compatible

John Musser, February 20th, 2008

Viacom has announced that their social networking platform Flux will officially support Google’s OpenSocial.


MySpace Platform Launches

John Musser, February 5th, 2008

The MySpace Developer Platform launches today. It’s certainly big news when the world’s largest social network launches their platform and we’ve updated our MySpace API Profile with the latest details.


Google’s Social Graph API

John Musser, February 1st, 2008

Google today released their Social Graph API, a very powerful new service to facilitate the discovery of publicly declared relationships between people.


Graphing Bebo Application Growth

John Musser, February 1st, 2008

Since Bebo brought its Facebook Platform-compatible API out of closed beta a few weeks ago, as we reported in this post, the initial growth shows a steep curve from about 50 launch partner applications available before Jan 12th to 714 on Jan 26th.


MySpace Platform to Launch February 5th

John Musser, January 30th, 2008

myspaceThe social platform battles continue to pick-up steam: the latest news comes from MySpace who are said to be launching their developer platform next week on February 5th.


Facebook Extends Their Platform

John Musser, January 27th, 2008

An announcement by Facebook late on Friday spotlights how they are attempting to stay ahead of the curve in exploiting the social graph.


Google, Facebook Join DataPortability.org

John Musser, January 8th, 2008

dataportability.orgIn a promising sign for the future of data portability across platforms, earlier today DataPortability.org Workgroup announced that Google, Facebook, and Plaxo joined their initative.


OpenSocial Shindig Released

John Musser, December 19th, 2007

If you are interested in hosting OpenSocial compatible widgets in your web site you’ll probably want to keep an eye on the open source project Shindig. What is it? As Google product manager Dan Peterson describes in Let’s get this shindig started: “Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation’s incubator (as per [...]


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