Hey Terry, It really kind of depends on the amount of resources you have available and what your goals are, a site like MySpace has other goals then a site with 50000 visitors does :)
First of all, please make sure that your OpenSocial implementation is compliant, that's the first must for any gadget developer, the best way to test this is by using the 0.8.1 complaince test from http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/wiki/ComplianceTests Next, list your site in wiki.opensocial.org and include all the details you can in there, for developers that are looking for new containers to support, that's the place to be :) On your site there's a couple of things you can do, but again it depends on the resources you have available for which of these you can implement or not, anyhow a wish list for a developer would look something like: - A documentation source (wiki, forum, etc), feel free to point to the opensocial-...@googlegroups list if you can't maintain your own, and wiki.opensocial.org is a great place to link to for how-to articles and docs - A developer console where a gadget dev can: - Add his application and test it (sandbox/not live yet) during development - A 'submit for approval' process if you want to do white listing - An overview of how many installs the app has - Extra points for showing the installs / removals / profile views / canvas views in a nice statistics overview (numbers over time, graphs, etc) - A way for the users of the app to contact the gadget dev for feedback .. a form that sends an email to the <author> of the gadget is fine really For the rest, the best way to get a feel for it is by simply going to other social networks and see how they did things, you can find a list of them on the same http://wiki.opensocial.org site Hope that helps! -- Chris On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:30 AM, terry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I've successfully setup a sub domain on my social networking site and > have shindig running... Now I'm trying to figure out what my next > steps are. I want to allow developers to develop apps for my site and > use my site as a container. I'm trying to find some guidance on the > correct steps I should be going through to make this possible. I'm > guessing i need to make an API for developers to access the sites > backend and also create a wiki for developers to find out how to make > apps but this is a bit vague and some more references would be > grateful! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
