Friendster Social Network Announces Support for Facebook and OpenSocial Platform Standards
Friendster, a leading social network with a large presence in the Americas and Asia, has announced support for both Facebook and OpenSocial platform standards. Yesterday, Friendster announced that it has deployed support for the Facebook platform as part of the Friendster Developer Program, which was launched in 2007. Under this program developers will be able to introduce programs originally written for Facebook to the Friendster network of over 80 million users. Friendster also supports OpenSocial APIs, a social networking standard used on sites such as Ning, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Plaxo.
“Friendster’s support of both the Facebook and OpenSocial platforms is a big win for business and individual developers, as well as for Friendster users,” said David Jones, vice president of global marketing for Friendster. “For the developers that have invested resources in developing and launching a Facebook app, Friendster has now made it very easy for them to ‘port’ these applications to Friendster, enabling them to tap into Friendster’s 80 million users. For Web 2.0 companies that have developed apps using Facebook and OpenSocial APIs, they now have the flexibility to choose between approaches when launching applications on Friendster.”
Developers can get additional information, downloads and an API key at http://www.friendster.com/developer.
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