Results tagged “opensocial”

We have now finished the migration of the Platform in production to OpenSocial v0.8. We'd like to thank the developers who helped test 0.8 while it was in beta, as well as those who provided us detailed feedback on the scaling issues we encountered in production last week. We are looking forward to a new wave of application and feature launches on the 0.8 platform. We recently posted an entry highlighting all of the key features of 0.8, the RESTful API being the most significant addition to this standard. Apart from the tremendous contributions to product testing by our QA team and third party developers, our team has also tested 0.8 against Google's OpenSocial compliance application and we're happy to say that it is compliant with most of the recommended test cases.

Additionally, our platform team has been working diligently at responding to your feature requests. This release brought other features into production, some of which had been "in the wild" on our beta servers for about a month and which some developers have already started using:

1. A RESTful API for accessing historical statistics for your apps
2. More attributes in the Person.Field data object
3. A Photo Upload API, auto documented at http://api.hi5.com
4. Status update API that allows you to set the user status 

In line with our earlier policies regarding notifications, we are also instituting similar dynamic limits on the total number of emails that an application can send per day. We did this because after adding notifications limits, we saw an improvement in the perception of applications among our users. We will continue to look into ways of striking a balance between user experience for our members and third party developer needs.

If you'd like to ask questions or leave us comments, feel free to send us an email at platform-help@hi5.com, to post on the online forum and to participate in discussions with other developers on the IRC channel. We're dedicated to continuing our efforts to enhance the platform for our members and partners.

It's now been almost two months since our initial launch of the hi5 OpenSocial-based platform.  We think it's great, but there's so much more that we want to accomplish. I'm happy to announce that we're starting our next beta cycle which will bring some great new features for App Developers and Users.

Today we're launching our new OpenSocial API server.  This release is our first step to OpenSocial 0.8 compatibility, and includes exciting new features from 0.8 and more:

• A standard REST API based on OpenSocial 0.8
• Better OpenSocial JavaScript features including pubsub.
• OAuth support.
• OpenID Provider support.
• More supported profile fields.
  

In the next weeks we'll be enabling these and other great features that will make your Hi5 Applications better, faster and more featureful.

Today you can do two things:

• Use the new OpenSocial REST service at http://sandbox.hi5.com/social/rest/
• Use a test application with our new OpenSocial Gadget Server

Send us an email with your application ID at platform-help@hi5.com if you want to try out these beta features and we'll get you started.

As we proceed towards our OpenSocial release, we've spent a lot of time polishing up the user interface. In a number of places we display your application name along with an icon.

Up to now we've used a small gear. In our next developer release, you'll be able to change your icon. You need to modify the icon attribute of the ModulePrefs tag. You should specify a URL of a 15x15 image; note that while .ico does not work on IE6, so .gif or .png is required. To make things really easy you can just add a reference to your existing favicon file, in the appropriate format.  Here's a snippet of code that shows how to specify the icon:

  <ModulePrefs
         [other attributes]
         icon="http://images.hi5.com/images/favicon.gif"/>

Once you add your icon attribute, use the developer console to 'Refresh' your application.  After that, your icon will appear in many places throughout the hi5 site.