OpenSocial 0.8 Beta Now Live on hi5
Developers waiting for their chance to implement OpenSocial 0.8 on a major social networking platform now have the chance on hi5. hi5 announced last week that developers can begin beta testing their OpenSocial 0.8 apps in the hi5 developers sandbox.
The feature most developers will be interested in 0.8 is the addition of a REST based API. This will allow OpenSocial applications to be architected more similarly to the way many Facebook applications are. The main drawback of doing everything the OpenSocial 0.7 (and before) way is that building everything in JavaScript just gets quite complicated and expensive.
Congrats to the hi5 Platform team on being one of the first to implement the OpenSocial 0.8 spec!
August 11th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Great news! I wish they would just get 0.6 and 0.7 to function properly. Every time I go to port our apps, their whole apps portion is broken!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Does Hi5′s OpenSocial 0.8 implementation support the RESTful API? If so, what is the entry point? Is there a tutorial available online for what URL should be used to retrieve an XRDS discovery document?
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:44 am
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