%VOSWARNING% A common set of APIs from Google that seek to provide interoperability across social-networking applications. It provides developers with the ability to use HTML and Javascript (amongst others) to create client applications that are endowed with transparent access to social-network data such as: friends, activities by friends etc. The API is GData based, meaning it incorporates the Atom Publishing protocol for transport services and Atom feed format for data representation. ---+++Benefits? It provides some separation of Social-Networking application logic and actual Data. ---+++Usage? It is typically use to provide interoperability between social-networking platforms. ---+++OpenLink Product Support * [[ODSProgrammersGuideOpenSocial][OpenLink Data Spaces]] ---+++Additional Information Website: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/