Tag Archives: opensocial

Sample App For OpenSocial 0.7 - Hi5 Developer Center

March 12, 2008 – 3:48 pm

I’m rather excited to see an example application for the Hi5 platform… Sample App For OpenSocial 0.7 - Hi5 Developer Center
Not because it shows how to build an OpenSocial application using version 0.7 of the API… no, because it shows that a public sandbox is now available there… as well as on Orkut. Technically an […]

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Facebook - down for maintenance?

February 12, 2008 – 9:09 am

Facebook was down for maintenance this morning (NZ time), which strikes me as being rather odd… actually I often have difficulty with the site; it simply doesn’t seem to actively respond 33% of the time. The Red Bull application (Paper, scissors, rock) always seemed to experience problems, which reduced the fun factor.
If the rest […]

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Bugzilla for defect management and feature requests

November 5, 2007 – 10:51 am

I was going for Double choco latte also know as DCL. A mate recommended it. But I got an error installing it on my webhost, something like “dcl_createon” does not exist - or something like that. I spent a while trying to find the problem. Then figured that the problem wouldn’t occur in the older […]

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Idea 5: Open Social portal for Facebook

November 5, 2007 – 8:39 am

The Open Social API is just a simple API for accessing basic information in the container, anyone can implement the API.
SO, why not build a wrapper to allow OpenSocial applications to run in Facebook?
All you’d need to do is provide an interface to the Facebook applications that do the same thing… and of course an […]

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Google open social here I come!

November 4, 2007 – 8:32 am

There is a stack of resources available as google rocks into the social aplication arena. Google were always there of course - we’ve been able to build google gadgets for ever.
And lets not forget all of the other platforms we can build widgets for. The field is massive and people are only really beginning […]

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