I have been researching the OpenSocial applications the last couple of weeks. I went through Ning developer online discussions to find out what other programmers are developing on Ning .Ning provides advanced guidelines on how to develop an OpenSocial application. The developer needs to be familiar with XML, HTML and JavaScript languages. I am experimenting with some of them at present.
OpenSocial application
OpenSocial application
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs standards - mostly based on XML and JavaScript - for social networks. It was initially developed by Google but has been embraced by the wider social networking and application developer community.
Ning will give the developer the ability to create powerful applications without the need to dive into Ning's source code and OpenSocial has been widely adopted by other social networks such as Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace. Eventually the OpenSocial Applications that are written by Sam’s team for Ning should be easily portable to other social networks.
Ning are fully committed to helping application developers use the OpenSocial platform to its fullest potential, they offer a selected number of developers sandbox environments to make sure that Features on Ning work correctly. http://developer.ning.com/beta. Ning Developer Network community can be targeted for a support with the PHP, APIs and CSS/JavaScript.
The differences between Gadgets and Features? It is worth to know that Ning Gadgets previously supported v0.5 of the OpenSocial. Ning Features will support OpenSocial v0.7 and offer access to additional social network information and more detailed documentation. Ning Features will also more closely follow the OpenSocial technical specifications.
