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Orkut adds Status Update feature

Facebook started it, LinkedIn followed and now is the turn for Orkut to have the status update feature. Orkut adds Status Updates From now on, you can update your status by going to your Profile page. Type whatever you wish to be shown as part of your status and that’s it. Source: Orkut Blog
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OpenSocial API Released

OpenSocial has finally been released by Google. I wrote about OpenSocial in my post Google’s OpenSocial:It will hit Facebook where it matters the most.

Common APIs mean you have less to learn to build for multiple websites. OpenSocial is currently being developed by Google in conjunction with members of the web community. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the APIs and host 3rd party social applications. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

In order for developers to get started immediately, Orkut has opened a limited sandbox that you can use to start building apps using the OpenSocial APIs.

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Google’s OpenSocial:It will hit Facebook where it matters the most.

I first heard of OpenSocial on Dorai’s blog. This concept just took me off and i then thought of doing a few more googling on this. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications on the web. These common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications. OpenSocial Open Social according to me will hit Facebook where it matters the most, Writing applications. It will allow developers to write applications with ease and deploy them on any social network. Amazing…right?
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