Tracking the new standard in social networking application development

Making social networking applications just got easier, and therefore harder…

November 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized

The more I read about OpenSocial the more I realise how many thousands of apps there are going to be by Christmas. If they are as easy to build and deploy as Google’s launch partners are boasting, we’re in for a deluge.

As William Tan points out, even if making an app just became a whole lot easier, if anything, the challenge of how to make your app engaging, addictive and viral has become far greater. There is going to be a whole lot more competition out there…

Having a crack at building an OpenSocial app

On a side note, Google are allowing developer registration for Orkut OpenSocial Sandbox accounts. Impatient developers are wondering how long it’s going to take to be granted access, so don’t expect to get in immediately.

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Open Social is Google's attempt to become the centre of social networking. The program's launch partners constitute top social networking application developers and 2nd tier social networking hosts.