{"id":111,"date":"2007-10-31T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:37:57","slug":"opensocial_now_facebook_is_for_everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/opensocial_now_facebook_is_for_everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSocial: now facebook is for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Andreessen&#8217;s always-interesting blog <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/pmarca\/~3\/177599973\/open-social-a-n.html\">today talks about<\/a> OpenSocial, a new standard spear-headed by Google which aims to provide a common API for embedding new web content and apps across all the main social network sites.<\/p>\n<p>This is very similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/\">Facebook Platform API<\/a> launched a few months ago to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2007\/06\/analyzing_the_f.html\">critical acclaim<\/a>, but with the significant difference that OpenSocial is an open standard which pretty much everyone else <em>except<\/em> Facebook is jumping on the bandwagon to support.<\/p>\n<p>Marc&#8217;s blog does a much better job of describing the benefits than I can. In a nutshell, though, it means that if you run a website that offers a useful service, you can now easily allow it to be embedded in any of the main social networking sites (LinkedIn, Friendster, Ning, etc.) by just adding some basic HTML &amp; Javascript support.<\/p>\n<p>This should be fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(The official Google launch is tomorrow, at which point http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/opensocial should become operational.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Andreessen&#8217;s always-interesting blog today talks about OpenSocial, a new standard spear-headed by Google which aims to provide a common API for embedding new web content and apps across all the main social network sites. This is very similar to the Facebook Platform API launched a few months ago to critical acclaim, but with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/opensocial_now_facebook_is_for_everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenSocial: now facebook is for everyone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}