Firefox Freerice.com Extension

Here is a small Freerice.com extension which keeps track of the

performance and donation made by the user.

Install the plugin and start keeping a track of your vocabulary level.

http://ttechnotes.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/rice-count/ 

OpenSocial API Launched

On November 1,2007 Google released OpenSocial API ( Application Programming Interface) for web-based social networking applications. Applications implementing the OpenSocial APIs will be interoperable with any social network system that supports them.After the launch of OpenSocial google started giving limited sandbox developer access to orkut. It has a lot of launch partners including Myspace, Friendster, Hi5 and many more.

I got the sandbox access to orkut on 4^th itself. So the first thing that I noticed was the profile page, it contained a preview of the album and videos of the user.

Here’s the screenshot.

 

Played a while with the demo applications provided. Some applications failed to run on Mozilla Firefox but worked with IE7. After going through the API documentation and writing some demo applications thought of trying out other OpenSocial applications. Found this facebook application on Vivek Jishtu’s blog which embeds Facebook into Orkut. It worked pretty fine except some known issues.

Here’s the screenshot.

 

Still playing around and trying out more OpenSocial applications on Ning.com for now.

The new platform seems pretty cool and ease to write code. Looking forward to some serious applications from developers soon. This would definitely change the scenario in social networking circuit and the way people use to interact through some innovative applications.