Last week Google announced an umbrella API for social networks, OpenSocial. On the back of their announcement, Google have released a preview of their API. Thumbing through the API preview I expected to see some elementary support for location, perhaps a “city” or “hometown” tag that developers could geocode, so I was pleasantly surprised to find what appears to be another implementation of GeoRSS…
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Rob
…elsewhere, I noticed Jason Birch has also recently posted on OpenSocial and the ‘Scope of Disruption‘.
Nov 4th, 2007
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