OpenSocial

==Background==
* wikipedia:OpenSocial
* [[OpenScial] API = An Application Programming Interface
==Details==
Based on HTML and JavaScript, as well as the Google Gadgets framework, OpenSocial includes four APIs for social software applications to access data and core functions on participating social networks. 
** One is the general JavaScript API, 
** for People and Friends (people and relationship information), 
** for Activities (publishing and accessing user activity information), and 
** for Persistence (simple key-value pair data for server-free stateful applications). 
OpenSocial's alpha development. 
* The initial version of the API that was made public was 0.5, followed by version 0.6 released on December 21, 2007. [9] Version 0.7 was released on February 4, 2008.[10] Version 0.8 was released on May 28, 2008. [11]
category:social media
category:4Rs