Santos would also like Google to do a better job of communicating changes and updates to OpenSocial components. Still, he’s confident that OpenSocial will get over its growing pains eventually.

As the Google OpenSocial train pulls out of the station (see Techmeme)with some passengers on board, we are waiting for the reaction of those who have chosen not to go along for ride at this point ...

Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. (see Techmeme). Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create ...

To that end, at the conference, Google announced that its calendar function was now supporting OpenSocial, too. So what kinds of apps are improved with an OpenSocial gadget?

Google has upgraded its OpenSocial platform with a new REST (representational state transfer) API for applications that need to tap back-end servers for data and functionality. This capability had ...

Not surprisingly, OpenSocial developers insist that the initiative isn't lying fallow. "We've made a lot of progress," Joe Kraus, director of product management at Google, said in an interview ...

Google's engineering director, David Glazer, talks about the dangers of partners splintering OpenSocial with proprietary extensions, and Facebook's lack of support.

Google’s OpenSocial initiative to establish common, standard APIs for creating social-networking applications is still in its early days. But its impact for end-users, developers, Web site ...

MySpace is joining other global social networking sites as founding members of OpenSocial. Among these members are Friendster, hi5, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Google’s Orkut among other social ...

OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on ...

This article is more than10years old. OpenSocial proponents pulled out all the stops Thursday to show that the fledgling open-source development platform championed by Google is ramping up.

Last night we outlined the details emerging about Google’s social networking initiative, OpenSocial. Below are some screenshots of OpenSocial in action that we didn’t have time to include in ...