{"id":4780,"date":"2007-11-04T07:11:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/google-launches-opensocial-a-common-api-for-social-networking-applications\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T07:11:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T14:11:50","slug":"google-launches-opensocial-a-common-api-for-social-networking-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/google-launches-opensocial-a-common-api-for-social-networking-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Launches OpenSocial &#8211; A Common API For Social Networking Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>Google has announced the launch of a program they are calling OpenSocial. The program is aimed at developing an API that will allow developers to write applications which would then run on all participating Social Networking sites. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently developers need to write individual applications for each social networking site they want to participate in. With this new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/press\/pressrel\/opensocial.html\" target=\"_blank\">OpenSocial<\/a> API they would only have to write the application once, and it would be available on all of the participating social networking sites.  It&#8217;s an interesting idea, one which may actually amount to something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too sure about the name though &#8211; there is already alot of prior art with that name. With Google claiming it for a product I could see them going after sites for trademark violations some day in the future!<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I think it&#8217;s a good idea and may in fact foster some innovation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has announced the launch of a program they are calling OpenSocial. The program is aimed at developing an API that will allow developers to write applications which would then&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}