There definitely has been a bunch of buzz about Google’s OpenSocial initiative in the past few days. I have always been intrigued by social networking and was hoping that one day somebody would create a central repository for this kind of information. I get tired of adding all my friends to different social apps every time I sign up for one. It appears from the outset that Google is trying to fix that, and I believe nobody is in a better position to do just that than they are.

Today they released the documentation on their API. It looks like right now they do not have an ActionScript version of it available on the site. I intend to fix that. I have created a Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/as3opensociallib/. I have not committed any files just yet but intend to start on this project right away so I can play with the API a bit and get to know it. If you would like to contribute to this project or just keep an eye on it to see when it is available, keep checking the Google Code project or this weblog.

Today at OSCON, Google announced a new site for developers to house their open source projects. The site allows publishers to choose one of seven different open source licenses for their project and provides access to issue tracking and a subversion repository.

I think it is great to see Google do this. I have become increasingly frustrated with Sourceforge and the amount of blatent advertising on that site. Google’s site is lacking in some features, but hopefully since it is beta (big suprise) there are still features yet to be realized.

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