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.
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.
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