Technical Resources (OpenSocial.org)

Technical Resources

This page provides pointers to specifications and other technical details about OpenSocial:

^Updated! To read the latest specification (including links to the underlying gadgets specification), please visit the OpenSocial Specification -- Implementation Version 0.8.1.

For the high-level bullets about what has changed from version to version, please review the OpenSocial Release Notes.

To review the specification for the upcoming template functionality in OpenSocial, please review the OpenSocial Templates Specification.

For news, articles, and community-contributed examples, see the OpenSocial Community Wiki.

To see an earlier version of the specification, you're welcome to visit the OpenSocial Specification – Implementation Version 0.7.

To get involved with the technical discussion of the future of the specification, please review the specification process document and then get involved on the the forum.

If you are interested in building an application using OpenSocial, please visit the Getting Started Guide, or go straight to the developer documentation. You may also be interested in reviewing the OpenSocial-resources project, which includes a wiki with code samples.

If you are interested in hosting OpenSocial applications, please visit this high-level container overview. To dive into the code and get started, please visit the Shindig website. Shindig is an open source reference implementation, being developed as a project in the Apache Software Foundation's incubator. Shindig is currently being used in production by several websites, including orkut.com and hi5.com, and netlog.com.

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