UWA now supports the OpenSocial API
We’ve been waiting a long time to unveil this new improvement to our widget platform, and this week’s edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris was the perfect occasion to release a handful of good news concerning Netvibes, including this little nugget:
UWA developers can now make their widgets social through the powers of the OpenSocial API.
At the moment, we’re still in Public Preview mode – which means that it is not yet available on the main Netvibes site, and instead requires you to open an account in our sandbox site. It will allow you to test a few socials ideas with your widgets, until the official unveiling…
In order to test your OpenSocial-using UWA widgets, simply add the “UWA+OpenSocial” widget from the Essential Widgets list, and put your widget’s URL in its Edit section…
Because OpenSocial has its own website (and follows its own evolution path), our documentation on the subject is quite minimal: just the UWA basics you need to remember, the biggest part of the knowledge being on the OpenSocial site.
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In addition to making UWA more powerful thanks to OpenSocial, Netvibes is now supporting the Google Gadget format. Again, this is still a Public Preview available only from the sandbox site (through the “Google Gadget” module). We’ll keep you informed on the evolution of that support soon…
Tags: google gadget, opensocial, uwa
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December 30th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
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