Today social networks are on the top Internet as we already know, but If we try to talk about Web 2.0 standards is a simply cloud of messy ideas that most people don’t know how to explain, so thanks to Google efforts for providing mechanisms to guide us to build social web sites. The center beam is an initiative called OpenSocial, as they say: “OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.” There are many websites implementing OpenSocial APIs such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Oracle, etc.
In case of Hi5, one of the things that I hated from it was the really difficult platform they had to integrate with, at least in the past, while networks in that moment as Facebook, MySpace even provided the possibility to interact with buddies, content updates, etc. from coding through several APIs.
That was the purpose that allows great projects like Flock for instance, take advantage of those kind of features, despite Hi5 is the third major social network on web. Hence, to know about the Hi5 “brand-new” development platform they are launching and moreover OpenSocial based are simply great news. I really wish more successful histories on the social web growing open.
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