Paul - how can a developer start developing for hi5 when it opens, so as to produce a quality widget to submit to hi5? With orkut, you sign up but then they say "wait and we'll contact you" when a spot is available. Will hi5 do this as well? If so, who gets to go first?
Greg On Nov 2, 5:55 pm, Paul Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:04:35PM -0000,EGregwrote: > > > Hey guys, BIG PROPS for rolling out a new industry standard, AND > > getting so many partners on board. You are going to get a huge number > > of app developers as well. > > > In that regard, I want to ask you - > > * Even though the standard is called OpenSocial, it is up to the > > social networks (the "containers") to allow developers to submit their > > applications and so forth. So they can restrict app developers or give > > head starts to some and not others, right? > > Open Social Sites can adopt whatever policy they want. > > At Hi5 we're going to offer a self-serve developer signup system in > the next two weeks, and a sandbox that works with that. This data > will form the basis of our Application Gallery. > > So far we've been creating dev accounts by hand and it obviously > doesn't scale. > > For developer off the street you can get a certain number of API calls > per minute/hour/day to test things out. To publish in the application > gallery will require a little more information, either embedded in > your XML or listed with us directly. > > I'd be interested in hearing what developers out there would rate > their highest priorities so we can hit thost targets... > > -- > Paul Lindner > hi5 Architect --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
