[orkut-developer] Re: App Reviewer issue. Want to send a complaint to Google
Hi Bruno My app got approved around July 4 but I was not aware of it until last week since I didn't get any notification. I think that I've even mistakenly submitted a Google doc application per new guidelines - I hope it will be dismissed since the app was actually online 3 weeks before the new submission process was introduced. thanks for your help On Monday, July 30, 2012 9:31:44 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi anatoly, We've recently changed the app submission process on Orkut and now apps are hopefully being reviewed and approved more quickly. Thank you very much for your complaint, candid input from developers like you really helps us a lot! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Friday, July 27, 2012 11:47:13 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: actually my app was approved 3 weeks ago but I was not aware of it since I've never got any notification. thanks anyway On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:37:51 AM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Thanks for writing it. I've forwarded your complaint to our managers. - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:44:08 AM UTC-7, anatoly wrote: Hi Bruno thanks for the response. to whom it may concern: I'm a developer on Google platforms including OpenSocial on web and Android on mobile for since 2008. My question is about the future of Orkut. I was looking for a developer advocate responsible for Orkut but most advocates are responsible for Android and Orkut is obviously out of focus at Google and is the lowest priority project at Google right now. This is sad since there are still many users on Orkut despite it's popularity localized to Brazil only. Orkut platform has a robust infrastructure. Since I'm a developer on Orkut as well I don't want to see it's going down like Myspace, Friendster and others. It's a developer's best interest to have apps on as many platforms as possible. Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is semi-automatic. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. Generally I didn't notice new platform features launched during a very long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here (Orkut dev official google group): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ This is not fair for Orkut community and for developers on Orkut. What can be done about this situation? If there are more top priority projects at Google now like Android there is no reason to abandon Orkut. We're looking to acquire and maintain new users. One of the ways to achieve this goal is to launch new apps. your help is much appreciated. thanks On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:50:25 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Sorry, but I have no news to give you on AppReviewer. We don't have anything else to share at the moment. Could you please write your complaint and post it to this thread? I will forward it to the appropriate recipients. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:53:11 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hello guys I'd like to send a complaint to Google's main office about the fact that Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. There are no new features on the platform introduced during a long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ I want to submit a detailed complaint about this issue to the main Google office to managers and/or developer advocates who superwise Orkut team. If you have contacts or quick channel please post below or send me a direct reply. your help is much appreciated. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/7zuoo5hWkn4J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: App Reviewer issue. Want to send a complaint to Google
actually my app was approved 3 weeks ago but I was not aware of it since I've never got any notification. thanks anyway On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:37:51 AM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Thanks for writing it. I've forwarded your complaint to our managers. - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:44:08 AM UTC-7, anatoly wrote: Hi Bruno thanks for the response. to whom it may concern: I'm a developer on Google platforms including OpenSocial on web and Android on mobile for since 2008. My question is about the future of Orkut. I was looking for a developer advocate responsible for Orkut but most advocates are responsible for Android and Orkut is obviously out of focus at Google and is the lowest priority project at Google right now. This is sad since there are still many users on Orkut despite it's popularity localized to Brazil only. Orkut platform has a robust infrastructure. Since I'm a developer on Orkut as well I don't want to see it's going down like Myspace, Friendster and others. It's a developer's best interest to have apps on as many platforms as possible. Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is semi-automatic. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. Generally I didn't notice new platform features launched during a very long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here (Orkut dev official google group): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ This is not fair for Orkut community and for developers on Orkut. What can be done about this situation? If there are more top priority projects at Google now like Android there is no reason to abandon Orkut. We're looking to acquire and maintain new users. One of the ways to achieve this goal is to launch new apps. your help is much appreciated. thanks On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:50:25 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Sorry, but I have no news to give you on AppReviewer. We don't have anything else to share at the moment. Could you please write your complaint and post it to this thread? I will forward it to the appropriate recipients. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:53:11 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hello guys I'd like to send a complaint to Google's main office about the fact that Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. There are no new features on the platform introduced during a long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ I want to submit a detailed complaint about this issue to the main Google office to managers and/or developer advocates who superwise Orkut team. If you have contacts or quick channel please post below or send me a direct reply. your help is much appreciated. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/kylE6yjDziEJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: App Reviewer issue. Want to send a complaint to Google
thanks any news about it? On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:37:51 AM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Thanks for writing it. I've forwarded your complaint to our managers. - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:44:08 AM UTC-7, anatoly wrote: Hi Bruno thanks for the response. to whom it may concern: I'm a developer on Google platforms including OpenSocial on web and Android on mobile for since 2008. My question is about the future of Orkut. I was looking for a developer advocate responsible for Orkut but most advocates are responsible for Android and Orkut is obviously out of focus at Google and is the lowest priority project at Google right now. This is sad since there are still many users on Orkut despite it's popularity localized to Brazil only. Orkut platform has a robust infrastructure. Since I'm a developer on Orkut as well I don't want to see it's going down like Myspace, Friendster and others. It's a developer's best interest to have apps on as many platforms as possible. Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is semi-automatic. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. Generally I didn't notice new platform features launched during a very long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here (Orkut dev official google group): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ This is not fair for Orkut community and for developers on Orkut. What can be done about this situation? If there are more top priority projects at Google now like Android there is no reason to abandon Orkut. We're looking to acquire and maintain new users. One of the ways to achieve this goal is to launch new apps. your help is much appreciated. thanks On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:50:25 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Sorry, but I have no news to give you on AppReviewer. We don't have anything else to share at the moment. Could you please write your complaint and post it to this thread? I will forward it to the appropriate recipients. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:53:11 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hello guys I'd like to send a complaint to Google's main office about the fact that Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. There are no new features on the platform introduced during a long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ I want to submit a detailed complaint about this issue to the main Google office to managers and/or developer advocates who superwise Orkut team. If you have contacts or quick channel please post below or send me a direct reply. your help is much appreciated. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/-_EhKwZsHSIJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
Hi Bruno Any news about the app reviewer? Please respond or provide any ETA or reasons for maintenance. thanks On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:51:08 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi anatoly, We don't have anything we can share at the moment, but please see my reply to the other thread and feel free to write your complaint. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/r1ejiEWVgNUJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
+1 On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:59:35 PM UTC+3, davew wrote: Hi Bruno, Will the Orkut team work on resolving the Adsense crawler problems? In order for app developers to support Orkut we need to make money on the platform. To make money we need targeted ads. If Google's Adsense crawler can't crawl pages then those ads have very low rpm. At one point I know the Google Adsense for Games team was using Orkut user profile data to target ads on application pages. I know because we use Adsense for Games on BuddyPoke.. But I'm guessing, based on the drop of rpm that Orkut is now completely blocking Adsense's crawlers, including Adsense for Games? Why can't Google Adsense servers access Google Orkut pages? Please help? Thanks Dave @ BuddyPoke On Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:54:30 PM UTC-7, anatoly wrote: Hi Bruno Following this thread discussion let me clarify the main issue: *.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets urls are behind a login so adsense crawler can't access these pages while trying to crawl adsense ads on app pages. If it is unable to crawl using adsense ads is not effective on app pages. Is there any workaround? It is impossible to define a crawler login for google hosted urls in adsense configuration. thanks On Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:37:56 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, So, I've been discussing this with the engineers here. Adsense crawlers don't crawl over authenticated pages (right?). So, even if /Application.aspx were not blocked, it would not be able to crawl it. So, isn't this warning spurious? That is, the fact that Application.aspx is blocked shouldn't alter your ads quality at all... Or am I mistaken? Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Monday, March 12, 2012 6:42:35 PM UTC-3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Our team is looking into the issue with the additional information you provided! I'll update the thread as soon as I hear news. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Thursday, March 8, 2012 2:39:22 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi Bruno thanks for the update Please update this thread if you make any decisions or changes about this. I think it crawls the page where the ad markup appears plus sometimes the parent page if it the former is iframe. Adsense cralwer errors are reported to the publisher, so I can see where it fails. If you need any info let mwe know. thanks On Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:04:08 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Thanks for the explanation, it clarified the finer points of how the adsense crawler works which I wasn't aware of. I assumed it crawled the landing page only, not the page on which the ad appears. We'll look into it. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:32:44 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Any update on the issue? The minimum orkut team should do is fix the bug of requestNavigateTo implementation Currently requestNavigateTo redirects to /Application.aspx instead of /Application and it blocks adsense crawler. I'd suggest to work closely with adsense team, you're the same company, I can't coordinate your internal cooperation. Just ask Adsense team how much crawler errors do they get on google.com.br, I bet there are billions. Please fix and update, otherwise it makes counterproductive to use adsense on apps. thanks On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08:35 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: We do not plan to modify robots.txt at the moment... but as far as I understand, the crawler would not need to crawl over /Application, because /PublicAppInfo does *not* automatically redirect to /Application unless the user is logged in and has the app installed. Since the crawler is not an Orkut user, this redirection would not happen and it would never see /Application or any other page. At least that's how it *should* happen :-) I've tested /PublicAppInfo myself while not logged in (which mimics the way the adsense crawler would see it) and indeed it does not perform any redirections that I could tell... Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/U4lQxpS83ggJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] rendering issues in IE
Hi It's several days that there are random javascript errors rendering canvas apps on orkut.com.br in IE. Chrome and Firefox is fine. Intermittently the canvas is not loading at all. this negatively affects traffic Webpage error details Timestamp: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:47:48 UTC Message: Exception thrown and not caught Line: 89 Char: 272 Code: 0 URI: http://static1.orkut.com/js/gen/main007.js Please check/fix it. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/BRrtg5ekBJoJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: App Reviewer issue. Want to send a complaint to Google
Hi Bruno thanks for the response. to whom it may concern: I'm a developer on Google platforms including OpenSocial on web and Android on mobile for since 2008. My question is about the future of Orkut. I was looking for a developer advocate responsible for Orkut but most advocates are responsible for Android and Orkut is obviously out of focus at Google and is the lowest priority project at Google right now. This is sad since there are still many users on Orkut despite it's popularity localized to Brazil only. Orkut platform has a robust infrastructure. Since I'm a developer on Orkut as well I don't want to see it's going down like Myspace, Friendster and others. It's a developer's best interest to have apps on as many platforms as possible. Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is semi-automatic. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. Generally I didn't notice new platform features launched during a very long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here (Orkut dev official google group): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ This is not fair for Orkut community and for developers on Orkut. What can be done about this situation? If there are more top priority projects at Google now like Android there is no reason to abandon Orkut. We're looking to acquire and maintain new users. One of the ways to achieve this goal is to launch new apps. your help is much appreciated. thanks On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:50:25 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Sorry, but I have no news to give you on AppReviewer. We don't have anything else to share at the moment. Could you please write your complaint and post it to this thread? I will forward it to the appropriate recipients. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:53:11 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hello guys I'd like to send a complaint to Google's main office about the fact that Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. There are no new features on the platform introduced during a long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ I want to submit a detailed complaint about this issue to the main Google office to managers and/or developer advocates who superwise Orkut team. If you have contacts or quick channel please post below or send me a direct reply. your help is much appreciated. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/MoAMeV-BeXwJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
posted here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/MoAMeV-BeXwJ On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:51:08 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi anatoly, We don't have anything we can share at the moment, but please see my reply to the other thread and feel free to write your complaint. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/7iwhCFPczhsJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
posted here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opensocial-orkut/1WLx9K-8-oQ thanks On Monday, June 18, 2012 6:51:08 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi anatoly, We don't have anything we can share at the moment, but please see my reply to the other thread and feel free to write your complaint. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/_5IseY5xzpQJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] App Reviewer issue. Want to send a complaint to Google
Hello guys I'd like to send a complaint to Google's main office about the fact that Orkut team obviously mishandles the App reviewer issue. App Reviewer on Orkut is under maintenance for more than 3 months. There is no ETA. It is impossible to submit new apps. There are no new features on the platform introduced during a long period of time. See previous discussion on App Reviewer here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9yROvQb8w1sJ I want to submit a detailed complaint about this issue to the main Google office to managers and/or developer advocates who superwise Orkut team. If you have contacts or quick channel please post below or send me a direct reply. your help is much appreciated. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/-PUpjz6eImIJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
Hey guys Can you share details what exactly happened with the app reviewer? It's taking very long time. Why is it taking very long time to fix? thanks On Monday, June 4, 2012 4:38:42 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi, I know, it's taking a long time :-( Sorry, but we don't have a expected date for it to be back online yet. - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:12:37 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi guys Why is it taking so long time for maintenance? I'm waiting 1.5 months for the review. Can you tell us when it is expected to be back online? thanks On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:07:36 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, AppReviewer is still under maintenance, unfortunately. Application approvals may be taking longer than usual. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:18:31 PM UTC-3, brandited wrote: One cannot use the word maintenance if it takes 2 months. And counting... On May 15, 2:02 am, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: 2 months under maintenance? On Monday, May 14, 2012 8:29:56 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is still under maintenance! Thank you for understanding! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:02:38 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: any ETA on app reviewer issue? waiting very long time for the review... thanks On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:09:35 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is currently under maintenance, so application approvals are taking longer than usual. And yes, similar app names are fine as long as they are submitted with the same developer account! Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/kgpYfO_G3wQJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
Hi guys Why is it taking so long time for maintenance? I'm waiting 1.5 months for the review. Can you tell us when it is expected to be back online? thanks On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:07:36 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, AppReviewer is still under maintenance, unfortunately. Application approvals may be taking longer than usual. Thank you! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:18:31 PM UTC-3, brandited wrote: One cannot use the word maintenance if it takes 2 months. And counting... On May 15, 2:02 am, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: 2 months under maintenance? On Monday, May 14, 2012 8:29:56 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is still under maintenance! Thank you for understanding! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:02:38 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: any ETA on app reviewer issue? waiting very long time for the review... thanks On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:09:35 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is currently under maintenance, so application approvals are taking longer than usual. And yes, similar app names are fine as long as they are submitted with the same developer account! Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/a22qczpMQSsJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
2 months under maintenance? On Monday, May 14, 2012 8:29:56 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is still under maintenance! Thank you for understanding! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:02:38 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: any ETA on app reviewer issue? waiting very long time for the review... thanks On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:09:35 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is currently under maintenance, so application approvals are taking longer than usual. And yes, similar app names are fine as long as they are submitted with the same developer account! Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/02fPZMffnPkJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
any ETA on app reviewer issue? waiting very long time for the review... thanks On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:09:35 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is currently under maintenance, so application approvals are taking longer than usual. And yes, similar app names are fine as long as they are submitted with the same developer account! Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/59edmWQKSXwJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
any ETA about App reviewer? thanks On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:09:35 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is currently under maintenance, so application approvals are taking longer than usual. And yes, similar app names are fine as long as they are submitted with the same developer account! Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/oqp_AIM3Us0J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: questions about app reviewer
Hi Bruno thanks for the info Do you have any estimate when app reviewer is expected to be back online? thanks On Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:09:35 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello! AppReviewer is currently under maintenance, so application approvals are taking longer than usual. And yes, similar app names are fine as long as they are submitted with the same developer account! Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:55 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/7mrOWJh5UgYJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Bug with gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo (Leave this page popup)
any news about the issue? thanks On Monday, April 9, 2012 7:56:14 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi, Thanks for reporting. We'll check if this is something we accidentally broke... Also, can you give us more details about what you are using requestNavigateTo for? Maybe there is a workaround for now. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:30:51 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hello any news about the issue? gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo on Chrome popups a browser alert Leave this page/Stay on this page Are you sure this happens only on Google Chrome browser and it worked fine several months ago. thanks On Monday, November 28, 2011 12:01:48 AM UTC+2, anatoly wrote: it worked fine without popup just a week ago... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/P2AR57xBdwgJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] questions about app reviewer
Hi I have a couple of questions about app reviewer. 1) Is it working now ok? A month ago it was under maintenance but I haven't found any recent announcement about it. 2) I submitted a new app with the name similar to my other app name in the format similar to to the example: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio on mobile i.e. the format is a) [MY APP] b) [MY APP] SOMETHING I think it should be fine since app names from the same developer could be similar on orkut as was stated on this forum previously I'd like just to verify that thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/CvtUE1AtnlEJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Bug with gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo (Leave this page popup)
Hi Bruno thanks for reply. It happens in Google Chrome only, but it seems like the most popular browser on orkut I think... I use it for navigation with parameters, i.e. var canvas_view = new gadgets.views.View(canvas); gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo(canvas_view, params); and then on the page I use it, i.e. to get parameter var navigatedParams = gadgets.views.getParams(); everything works though, it's just an alert that bothers users. thanks On Monday, April 9, 2012 7:56:14 PM UTC+3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi, Thanks for reporting. We'll check if this is something we accidentally broke... Also, can you give us more details about what you are using requestNavigateTo for? Maybe there is a workaround for now. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:30:51 AM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hello any news about the issue? gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo on Chrome popups a browser alert Leave this page/Stay on this page Are you sure this happens only on Google Chrome browser and it worked fine several months ago. thanks On Monday, November 28, 2011 12:01:48 AM UTC+2, anatoly wrote: it worked fine without popup just a week ago... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/91WIQ0ovbawJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Bug with gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo (Leave this page popup)
Hello any news about the issue? gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo on Chrome popups a browser alert Leave this page/Stay on this page Are you sure this happens only on Google Chrome browser and it worked fine several months ago. thanks On Monday, November 28, 2011 12:01:48 AM UTC+2, anatoly wrote: it worked fine without popup just a week ago... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/KQw7O5D_pSUJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Hi Bruno there are several issues: 1) users should not land on /Application.aspx at all. You have an issue with url rewriting in implementation of gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo(canvas_view, params); this call land on /Application.aspx rather than on /Application this should be fixed, I think it influences the crawler. 2) I'm not sure either /Application.aspx or /Application are behind the login. Should they be behind the login? It's on the part of the app to check the viewer, and if it is null it should display a link to install, I think that is the flow explained to us by orkut team over the years, (i.e. there should not be automatic redirect to install page). 3) I'm getting also a lot of adsense crawler errors that the content is behind the login on urls of the type: http://682hjovlc0q8jnnr2ueel60s3q6v6sjc.a.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http ... http://k0bd715biegqe7vcf80atgebi24ng48e.a.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets* /ifr?url=http*... http://o4c1teg8q13go818l55a4f0shnhr6r12.a.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets* /ifr?url=http*... http://1kkb0un3av50ln5f3963qgkj20jmneil.a.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets* /ifr?url=http*http://1kkb0un3av50ln5f3963qgkj20jmneil.a.orkut.gmodules.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http **... etc. Adsense crawler can crawl over authenticated pages if it can land on them, i.e. if there is no redirect, etc. I get thousands of crawler errors from adsense to fix, while you should get them and not orkut developers since it is entirely out of developer's control. Since adsense and orkut is the same company, I think it depends on your teams cooperation to resolve it and improve adsense quality. At the end of the day google would earn more if there are more relevant adsense ads. thanks On Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:37:56 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, So, I've been discussing this with the engineers here. Adsense crawlers don't crawl over authenticated pages (right?). So, even if /Application.aspx were not blocked, it would not be able to crawl it. So, isn't this warning spurious? That is, the fact that Application.aspx is blocked shouldn't alter your ads quality at all... Or am I mistaken? Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Monday, March 12, 2012 6:42:35 PM UTC-3, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Our team is looking into the issue with the additional information you provided! I'll update the thread as soon as I hear news. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Thursday, March 8, 2012 2:39:22 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Hi Bruno thanks for the update Please update this thread if you make any decisions or changes about this. I think it crawls the page where the ad markup appears plus sometimes the parent page if it the former is iframe. Adsense cralwer errors are reported to the publisher, so I can see where it fails. If you need any info let mwe know. thanks On Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:04:08 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Thanks for the explanation, it clarified the finer points of how the adsense crawler works which I wasn't aware of. I assumed it crawled the landing page only, not the page on which the ad appears. We'll look into it. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:32:44 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Any update on the issue? The minimum orkut team should do is fix the bug of requestNavigateTo implementation Currently requestNavigateTo redirects to /Application.aspx instead of /Application and it blocks adsense crawler. I'd suggest to work closely with adsense team, you're the same company, I can't coordinate your internal cooperation. Just ask Adsense team how much crawler errors do they get on google.com.br, I bet there are billions. Please fix and update, otherwise it makes counterproductive to use adsense on apps. thanks On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08:35 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: We do not plan to modify robots.txt at the moment... but as far as I understand, the crawler would not need to crawl over /Application, because /PublicAppInfo does *not* automatically redirect to /Application unless the user is logged in and has the app installed. Since the crawler is not an Orkut user, this redirection would not happen and it would never see /Application or any other page. At least that's how it *should* happen :-) I've tested /PublicAppInfo myself while not logged in (which mimics the way the adsense crawler would see it) and indeed it does not perform any redirections that I could tell... Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/kFVjZUdheDQJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe
[orkut-developer] How to promote an app on Orkut
Hello Orkut team I'd like to promote my app on orkut with ad campaign. From what I've seen it is possible to run ad campaigns on Orkut via Google Adwords, but it is only possible to promote external sites this way. I'm interested to promote my app on Orkut from within Orkut. How should I proceed? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/HX5b9CJUgUkJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Hi Bruno thanks for the update Please update this thread if you make any decisions or changes about this. I think it crawls the page where the ad markup appears plus sometimes the parent page if it the former is iframe. Adsense cralwer errors are reported to the publisher, so I can see where it fails. If you need any info let mwe know. thanks On Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:04:08 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hello, Thanks for the explanation, it clarified the finer points of how the adsense crawler works which I wasn't aware of. I assumed it crawled the landing page only, not the page on which the ad appears. We'll look into it. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:32:44 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: Any update on the issue? The minimum orkut team should do is fix the bug of requestNavigateTo implementation Currently requestNavigateTo redirects to /Application.aspx instead of /Application and it blocks adsense crawler. I'd suggest to work closely with adsense team, you're the same company, I can't coordinate your internal cooperation. Just ask Adsense team how much crawler errors do they get on google.com.br, I bet there are billions. Please fix and update, otherwise it makes counterproductive to use adsense on apps. thanks On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08:35 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: We do not plan to modify robots.txt at the moment... but as far as I understand, the crawler would not need to crawl over /Application, because /PublicAppInfo does *not* automatically redirect to /Application unless the user is logged in and has the app installed. Since the crawler is not an Orkut user, this redirection would not happen and it would never see /Application or any other page. At least that's how it *should* happen :-) I've tested /PublicAppInfo myself while not logged in (which mimics the way the adsense crawler would see it) and indeed it does not perform any redirections that I could tell... Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/x3LkHTcMKgUJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Any update on the issue? The minimum orkut team should do is fix the bug of requestNavigateTo implementation Currently requestNavigateTo redirects to /Application.aspx instead of /Application and it blocks adsense crawler. I'd suggest to work closely with adsense team, you're the same company, I can't coordinate your internal cooperation. Just ask Adsense team how much crawler errors do they get on google.com.br, I bet there are billions. Please fix and update, otherwise it makes counterproductive to use adsense on apps. thanks On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08:35 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: We do not plan to modify robots.txt at the moment... but as far as I understand, the crawler would not need to crawl over /Application, because /PublicAppInfo does *not* automatically redirect to /Application unless the user is logged in and has the app installed. Since the crawler is not an Orkut user, this redirection would not happen and it would never see /Application or any other page. At least that's how it *should* happen :-) I've tested /PublicAppInfo myself while not logged in (which mimics the way the adsense crawler would see it) and indeed it does not perform any redirections that I could tell... Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/JVjz_IxsEEsJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Stats not updated
+1 the directory is messed up -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/oa9wal5DWvEJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Stats not updated
Hi Bruno I see the same order. But what criteria it is based on now - just weekly visits? So all visits equal e.g. 1 sec visit = half hour visit? See this article Demystifying the app ranking criteria in orkut? http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/demystifying-app-ranking-criteria-in.html By Prashant Tiwari and Tiago Silveira, orkut Team it seems very different now than what is described. Can you officially clarify the new criteria? thanks On Monday, January 23, 2012 9:37:17 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) wrote: Hi, I just tested the directory and it looks ok: 1. Mini Fazenda 2. Megacity 3. CaféMania 4. Caixa da Verdade 5. Colheita Feliz 6. World Mysteries 7. Cidade Maravilhosa 8. Vila Mágica 9. BuddyPoke 10. Candy Dash 11. Guitar Flash 12. Vou, Não Vou! 13. Colheita Feliz 3 14. Minha Música 15. Pet Mania 16. Buraco Canastra (I tested in Brazilian Portuguese, but the directory varies according to the language you configured Orkut to) - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/stUdb5HrkHwJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Stats not updated
I'm sorry but what you just did is ranking based on weekly users. It's totally wrong. Weekly users maybe one of the factors. Once you had a sophisticated formula with weights of page impressions. What happened to that formula? You should also count the time spent on the app per user per visit - this is the measurement of the quality of the app. Ranking based simply on weekly users is wrong and people will outspam and game the system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/wMP2dAyM6EcJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
I'm not sure it is related solely to requestNavigateTo there are several app urls 1) orkut links (for example from profile page) http://www.orkut.com/Main#Application?uid=1234appId=1234 2) PublicAppInfo http://www.orkut.com/Main#PublicAppInfo?appId=1234 which redirects to http://www.orkut.com/Main#Application?appId=1234 (which is similar to #1) 3) orkut implementation of OpenSocial method requestNavigateTo goes to *http://www.orkut.com/Application.aspx?appId=1234appParams=bla*http://www.orkut.com/Application.aspx?appId=1234appParams=bla which briefly redirects to http://www.orkut.com/Main#Application.aspx?appId=1234appParams=bla adsense crawler reports errors on http://www.orkut.com/Application.aspx and *http://www.orkut.com/Application* since /Application.aspx and /Application are blocked by robots.txt These are real urls before url rewrite so somehow it might be related to url rewrite on orkut. In any case you can just solve it by adding User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: to robots txt (or just allow /Application.aspx and /Application for Mediapartners-Google) which will not effect other crawlers It will be in any case for Google's benefit (and for developers benefit). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/3jd1C-u04yIJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
In any case unrelated to crawlers error you can unify */Main#Application.aspx?appId=1234appParams=bla* ** with */Main#Application?appId=1234appParams=bla* ** as */Main#Application* ** is a standard scheme on orkut and only requestNavigateTo uses Application.aspx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/8Co_T4warAcJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Hello Bruno Google Adsense crawler crawls the page where the ad tag is placed - it is on the application page which is an iframe on orkut, when the crawler sees that the page is the iframe it attempts to crawl it's parent page (in our case it is /Application, /Application.aspx) which is blocked by robots.txt. Somehow it detects that the page is /Application and not /Main#Application. I suspect the issue might be with url rewriting from /Application to /Main#Application I suggest to at least change requestNavigateTo implementation to redirect to /Main#Application instead of /Main#Application.aspx to make it standard. Otherwise .aspx looks like a redundant orkut url format for pages. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/Ex2sBNN16W4J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Hello Bruno I'm using PublicAppInfo everywhere, however I'm also using requestNavigateTo and this method navigates to Application.aspx (which is closed to crawlers) var canvas_view = new gadgets.views.View(canvas); gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo(canvas_view, params); Can you check this please? Based on your info sounds like the bug is in the implementation of requestNavigateTo. Does it make sense? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/ak2EynZzQzoJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
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[orkut-developer] Re: How can I see the list of the apps that are uploaded by this developer account?
you can go to prod.sandbox.com, login with that account credentials an then type in the browser: *http://prod.sandbox.orkut.com/Main#Developer*http://prod.sandbox.orkut.com/Main#Developer there you see apps published by you, you also need to add them to your account if not added hope this helps -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/xFMIRh9BdjwJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Bug with gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo (Leave this page popup)
to orkut team: There is a bug since several days on orkut and sandbox gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo on Chrome poups a browser alert Leave this page/Stay on this page var canvas_view = new gadgets.views.View(canvas); gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo(canvas_view, params); thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/Fl2kAs4hZuUJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
any updates? lately it seems like this forum is abandoned by orkut :( hopefully devs at orkut are just busy... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/Y4-Bg_SV5JEJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
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[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Bruno thanks a lot for reply it is related also to *orkut.com/robots.txt*http://orkut.com.br/robots.txt as well as *orkut.com.br/robots.txt* http://orkut.com.br/robots.txt specific lines that block adsense crawler from app pages are: Disallow: /Application Disallow: /Application.aspx Per adsense team suggestion adding User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: should unblock adsense crawler only and shouldn't have any effect on google crawler or other search bots. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/CLnUn2ZMK_4J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
Anyone from orkut team here who is able to respond? there is a line in *orkut.com.br/robots.txt*http://orkut.com.br/robots.txt which blocks adsense access: Disallow: /Application.aspx thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/-jhBTjQhqh0J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] robots.txt issue on orkut.com.br - blocking adsense crawler
To orkut team: Since last week due to some issue on robots.txt in orkut.com.br google adsense crawler has troubles reaching applications pages on the site. Which causes less targeted ads and less revenue for devwelopers and for google. This is the email we got from adsense: We noticed that our AdSense ad crawler is having some difficulty crawling some parts of your site on orkut.com.br. Specifically, we've detected 696,147 failed crawl requests over a 4-day period last week, which is caused by an issue within your robots.txt file. Essentially, this file is blocking certain sections of your site from our AdSense ad crawler. Because of this, your AdSense ads are less targeted and are generating less revenue on average. Fortunately, you can fix this issue today by editing your robots.txt file and giving our AdSense ad crawler the ability to view your site. To do this, find your robots.txt file, located at orkut.com.br/robots.txt and add the following two lines at the very top: User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: Please add the above lines to robots.txt. Please note this change will not affect search and is only related to adsense crawler. thanks a lot -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/w3gVgl7m2eoJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] javascript error on sandbox and prod.sandbox
There is a javascript error currently on sandbox and prod.sandbox (maybe on production as well?) Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS STORE DMC2.7.4126.0) Timestamp: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 02:39:51 UTC Message: Permission denied Line: 97 Char: 451 Code: 0 URI: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/notifier-js?silent=truehost=http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/notifier-js -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/qzOJX1pt2KMJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: List of many apps affected by the automatic reviewer bug
Why do you think all those from the list were removed due to a bug in app reviewer? At least some of those are a rip-off of popular online flash games iframed and stuffed with ads. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/QMREcBNEyp8J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] to orkut team: major bug on orkut and IE9
To orkut team: there is currently an issue on orkut (new interface) in Internet Explorer browser. I get the following message: - ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file. The compile time user.agent value (ie9) does not match the runtime user.agent value (ie8). Expect more errors. - Seems like it is a major cause of reduced traffic during the last week Everything is working fine on Firefox and Chrome. can you check what is going wrong there? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/LnhBKbgtq00J. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] problem in orkut parser
Hello There ias apparently a bug with the current orkut parser in IE9. The following code: var audioUrl = SOME_URL; var snd = document.getElementById(sound); snd.src = url; snd.play(); where sound is audio html tag. Gives error in IE (TypeError: play() is not supported). Works fine in Firefox and Chrome on orkut container. Works fine in IE9 outside orkut container. Can you guys please check it (and fix it)? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/PcPRMhtK4RIJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: sandbox updated
the error I reported then dissapeared a couple of days after I posted. I checked main orkut and sandbox now in IE9 and it looks working ok. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/2oIJRrh1JVsJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: sandbox updated
Sandbox seems completely broken on IE9. There is an error message only secure content is displayed and then IE9 blocks most of the page. Same behavior on homepage and on application pages. Working fine on FF. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/FSDX4CuqH2AJ. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: sandbox updated
fix confirmed, thanks On Jun 2, 4:07 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: Sandbox was updated again, this issue should be gone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Popups not centered on app
works fine Please notify on this thread when this is pushed to production so we can remove temporary workarounds On Jun 2, 4:33 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: As of yesterday this is fixed in sandbox.orkut.com. Please let me know if you run into issues. This should reach production next week. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: sandbox updated
there is a big issue on sandbox right now. when posting an activity (opensocial.requestCreateActivity) when I click post on the activity dialog - the page suddenly redirects to the app canvas page. please check it out. On May 30, 10:33 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: There's a new release in sandbox.orkut.com. Please test your apps and report any issues you might have here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: App updates not showing on New UI
thanks for the update, please let us know when it's fixed On May 17, 10:13 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi developers, Due to an issue on our side, application posts (activities) are currently not showing on the New UI. We are working to get this fixed as soon as possible. This affects activities posted via the JS API and also via the 3LO API. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Issue with requestNavigateTo with params on Chrome browser
Hello There is currently an issue which happens on Google Chrome only but works fine on IE and Firefox. When I navigate to canvas using different params, i.e.: var canvas_view = new gadgets.views.View(canvas); gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo(canvas_view, params); there is a warning popup on Chrome: You are leaving orkut. Be suspicious of external websites that ask for account information. or Você está saindo do orkut. Suspeite de sites externos que peçam informações de sua conta. while the navigation is not leaving orkut, just navigates back to the same canvas with diff params. Happens on Chrome only. Please fix. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Ads rendering and a new parser on orkut
Hi Since the new parser was announced on orkut I don't see significant issues except one which I'm not 100% sure it is related. We've noticed that there are less ad views reported for google adsense we host on our orkut apps. This started after the new parser was announced on orkut. I wonder if this is related or did anyone else noticed something similar? We have similar traffic numbers as before, however our ad reports numbers dropped. This happens only on orkut for us. In addition there is now a huge discrepancy in numbers reported between 2 different ad units on the same page (which did not happen before). We have similar setup on other platforms, but we observe this behavior on orkut only and it just started recently. If anyone from orkut team can comment it would be helpful. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: IMPORTANT: Name Collision Protection launching! Don't change the title of your app!
Hi Bruno It once happened to me that I reported about a malicious app via DMCA and the genuine original app was disabled by mistake instead of the malicious one. It took 3-4 days to restore the app. My point is that in the case of false positive (i.e. disabling both apps or original app instead of malicious due to some bug or outage) - the price is too high. thanks On May 5, 12:51 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi, We've tested it a lot in our labs and we're pretty sure it will work well. The signal that triggers the check is changing the app's title (in any language). So if you don't change your title, there is no way your app will be taken down. Question: what about existing applications that have name conflicts? They will not be checked unless they change their names. If there are existing applications with conflicting names, we have no way to decide which one is the right one, so we won't take down any of them. The only way to take down an existing app that has a name that belongs to you is to file a DMCA complaint. http://www.google.com/orkut_dmca.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: IMPORTANT: Name Collision Protection launching! Don't change the title of your app!
sounds good however I'm afraid of bugs in this algo and implementation If for example an original app will be take down by mistake (instead the fake one) is very dangerous, Hope you tested that carefully. On May 3, 1:31 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: *TL;DR Summary of this post, if you are in a hurry:* *Good news:* your application is now under increased protection against malicious apps! *Caveats:* Don't change the title of your application. Any title changes will trigger the new name collision prevention algorithm, and if your new title is found to collide with another existing application, your application will be removed immediately. Attention Developers: Starting Friday (May 6), we will start enforcing our brand-new *name clash protection* for live applications. Please read the information below to make sure you do not accidentally cause your application to be removed without notice. *Name Collision Protection* * * *1. How does it work?* * * Whenever an application changes its title, in any languages, our automatic application reviewer (AppReviewer) will now test the new titles against all other live applications in our database. If it detects a name collision, the application whose title changed *will be taken down immediately and without any human review or prior notification*. *2. Why are you doing this?* * * We're doing this in order to protect live applications from malicious apps that change their names in order to confuse users. This new algorithm will catch any live applications that change their names in a way that conflicts with the name of a live application. This means your legitimate application now enjoys increased protection, since fake applications will have a hard time copying your name! *3. Can you give an example of the intended effect of this change?* * * Suppose you have a very successful app called Qwertyuiop. And suppose another developer, your rival, has an application called Asdfghjkl, that is poorly written and no one uses it. Now, suppose this malicious user wants to steal your success -- he renames his application to Qwertyuiop 2: Reloaded Deluxe Edition, hoping to trick users into thinking his app is an upgrade to yours. With the new Name Collision Protection, this will no longer be possible: AppReviewer would notice his application changed its title and would detect that its new title conflicts with an existing application, Qwertyuiop, and the malicious app would be taken down * immediately*. Isn't that great news? *4. So when do two names collide?* * * Names collide when they are substantially similar -- similar enough to confuse the user who is doing a search for example. *5. Are all names protected?* * * No. Only names consisting of 8 or more characters are protected. Smaller names are not protected. *6. Is there an exception for applications from the same developer?* * * Yes, applications submitted by the same developer (this means the account that *submitted *the app, not the account that is listed as the author!) can have similar names. This means that the developer who published Qwertyuiop is allowed to publish Qwertyuiop 2 Reloaded. But no one else is. *7. Why won't the developer be notified before his app is taken down because of a name collision?* * * Because this would give a malicious developer time to profit from name frauds. So, as a security measure, no prior notice will be sent. *8. How can I make sure my app is not taken down for this?* * * It's simple: Don't change the title of your app. Ever. There are very few legitimate uses for this, so we presume that an app that has changed its name is probably up to no good. *9. Can I predict that a name won't conflict by doing a search?* * * No. Our name clash algorithm is stricter than a simple text search, so even if the name seems to be available when you do a regular search, it may actually conflict with something that the search didn't show you, and this will cause your application to be taken down. Again, see advice [8]: don't change your title. Ever. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: IMPORTANT: Name Collision Protection launching! Don't change the title of your app!
Also, I've noticed that some malicious developers, use just a portuguese translation of the name if for example original name is in english and trademarked. Also I'd like to mention that there are cases when there are official trademarked names for certain games and there are devs whose apps are older and have some user base but violate trademarks, and the original trademark owner joins orkut later with their game. What to do in this case? thanks On May 3, 1:31 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: *TL;DR Summary of this post, if you are in a hurry:* *Good news:* your application is now under increased protection against malicious apps! *Caveats:* Don't change the title of your application. Any title changes will trigger the new name collision prevention algorithm, and if your new title is found to collide with another existing application, your application will be removed immediately. Attention Developers: Starting Friday (May 6), we will start enforcing our brand-new *name clash protection* for live applications. Please read the information below to make sure you do not accidentally cause your application to be removed without notice. *Name Collision Protection* * * *1. How does it work?* * * Whenever an application changes its title, in any languages, our automatic application reviewer (AppReviewer) will now test the new titles against all other live applications in our database. If it detects a name collision, the application whose title changed *will be taken down immediately and without any human review or prior notification*. *2. Why are you doing this?* * * We're doing this in order to protect live applications from malicious apps that change their names in order to confuse users. This new algorithm will catch any live applications that change their names in a way that conflicts with the name of a live application. This means your legitimate application now enjoys increased protection, since fake applications will have a hard time copying your name! *3. Can you give an example of the intended effect of this change?* * * Suppose you have a very successful app called Qwertyuiop. And suppose another developer, your rival, has an application called Asdfghjkl, that is poorly written and no one uses it. Now, suppose this malicious user wants to steal your success -- he renames his application to Qwertyuiop 2: Reloaded Deluxe Edition, hoping to trick users into thinking his app is an upgrade to yours. With the new Name Collision Protection, this will no longer be possible: AppReviewer would notice his application changed its title and would detect that its new title conflicts with an existing application, Qwertyuiop, and the malicious app would be taken down * immediately*. Isn't that great news? *4. So when do two names collide?* * * Names collide when they are substantially similar -- similar enough to confuse the user who is doing a search for example. *5. Are all names protected?* * * No. Only names consisting of 8 or more characters are protected. Smaller names are not protected. *6. Is there an exception for applications from the same developer?* * * Yes, applications submitted by the same developer (this means the account that *submitted *the app, not the account that is listed as the author!) can have similar names. This means that the developer who published Qwertyuiop is allowed to publish Qwertyuiop 2 Reloaded. But no one else is. *7. Why won't the developer be notified before his app is taken down because of a name collision?* * * Because this would give a malicious developer time to profit from name frauds. So, as a security measure, no prior notice will be sent. *8. How can I make sure my app is not taken down for this?* * * It's simple: Don't change the title of your app. Ever. There are very few legitimate uses for this, so we presume that an app that has changed its name is probably up to no good. *9. Can I predict that a name won't conflict by doing a search?* * * No. Our name clash algorithm is stricter than a simple text search, so even if the name seems to be available when you do a regular search, it may actually conflict with something that the search didn't show you, and this will cause your application to be taken down. Again, see advice [8]: don't change your title. Ever. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Drop in traffic during last 2 weeks
interesting what guys at orkut team think about this... I think it is our both developers and orkut interest to increase traffic and discovery. On Apr 12, 9:00 am, Jackson jackson.costa.j...@gmail.com wrote: All apps traffics is losing because the profile views was disabled, profile views means 20% to 30% more traffic to all apps. 2 years ago, orkut gave 2x or 3x more traffic to all apps, after the several changes and layout, all apps will never be the same again, losing user, losing traffic after all changes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Drop in traffic during last 2 weeks
Hi Did anyone else noticed a significant drop in traffic during last 2 weeks? I didn't make changes and the traffic was stable before. Did orkut make some chnages that affect traffic? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer is now smarter about name clashes (DON'T try to change the name of your app)
sounds good, it's about time too bad there are already many so-called version 2 apps On Apr 9, 8:43 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi developers, The new AppReviewer is much smarter than the old one. Now it will catch those very crafty abuse cases where apps try to copy the name of existing apps in order to trick the users. So, newly submitted applications with names that are too similar to existing applications *will not* be approved. Apps that change their name to names that collide with other applications *will be removed*. This measure is designed to protect you from apps that try to copy your app's name. However, it can backfire on you if you try change your application's name. The short rule is *do not, ever, try to change your application's name*. And if you disregard this advice and do it anyway, please realize that if the new name happens to collide with the name of another application, then your app will be *taken down immediately* without any opportunity to fix the problem[*]. *[*] temporarily, we're not actually doing this, but we will start doing that soon!* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Issue #K07 is back! We're looking into it.
thanks On Apr 9, 8:32 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Fixed! \o/ - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] URGENT: certain apps are not loading in new orkut - try again message
Hello Certain apps are not loading in new orkut for me - I get a try again message and the app is not loading in canvas. Other similar apps of mine are loading fine. Please check it out -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Activity dialog is refreshing the page
this is still happening at least on sandbox On Mar 24, 1:25 pm, Glauber glauber...@gmail.com wrote: Problem solved. Thank you Bruno! On 22 mar, 16:34, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi, We're fixing the problem. It should be working again soon. Thank you, - Bruno Oliveira (Google)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] App reviewer issue: The apps is displaying a modal dialog (popup).
Just got this message from app reviewer about one of my apps. The app in question doesn't use popups or alerts. Can you please check that? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Issue #K07 is back! We're looking into it.
is it fixed? thanks On Mar 11, 5:29 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi, Known Issue #K07, which had been solved, is now back. To recap, this issue was: Links in e-mails sent by requestSendMessage() are arriving broken (without the http://www.orkut.com/; prefix, so they are unusable unless they user copies and pastes the URL instead of clicking them). We're looking into it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Error Message: 'google.csi' is null or not an object
There is an error message happening now on the sandbox: Message: 'google.csi' is null or not an object happening on the last line of the rendered script: google.csi.tickDl(); Please check -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Profile view temporarily disabled
thanks guys On Mar 29, 10:29 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: Profile view is enabled again. What a horrible experience that was. We now turn our attention to the canvas view. You can expect improvements there soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Profile view
+1 On Mar 28, 5:04 am, Glauber glauber...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone from orkut team give a feedback? Days? Weeks? Months? On 17 mar, 21:45, Glauber glauber...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is there any news about when profile view will return? This is a important source of traffic and it had a negative impact for apps since it has been disabled. I hope it does not takes much longer to come back...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Activity dialog is refreshing the page
same here On Mar 21, 4:28 pm, Glauber glauber...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, There is a serious problem happening to users of new orkut. Activity dialog is refreshing page either if user post or cancel. After that, user is redirected to the same app from scratch but in the old orkut interface. Apps are losing their flow and consistency. I noticed this problem in all applications and it's happening last few days. Could you guys from orkut team take a look on this? It's kind urgent... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Activity dialog is refreshing the page
anyone from orkut team can comment? this issue was introduced last week and quiet annoying :( On Mar 21, 5:59 pm, Bruno Souza 241...@gmail.com wrote: Same here! -- Bruno Souza Studio Sol - BR @souzabruno Em 21/03/2011, às 12:25, anatoly escreveu: same here On Mar 21, 4:28 pm, Glauber wrote: Hello, There is a serious problem happening to users of new orkut. Activity dialog is refreshing page either if user post or cancel. After that, user is redirected to the same app from scratch but in the old orkut interface. Apps are losing their flow and consistency. I noticed this problem in all applications and it's happening last few days. Could you guys from orkut team take a look on this? It's kind urgent... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Attention: redirecting the browser will cause your app to be flagged as malicious!
anyone from orkut team can comment on activity dialog issue? thanks On Mar 20, 5:09 am, Glauber glauber...@gmail.com wrote: Same here... Activity dialog is refreshing page either if user post or cancel :( On 15 mar, 22:39, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno Just noticed the following: activity dialog is making a refresh (when the user clicks post) and redirectng the user to the old orkut application canvas. The code is not doing anything like this. Seems the canvas is broken - can you check this? Is it happening on production also? thanks On Mar 16, 3:17 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hello developers, Just a word of advice, since this has come up a few times recently and I've seen a few forum threads about it. In your applications, *you may never redirect the browser (for example, by setting window.top.location -- or by any other method)*. Redirections are against the developer guidelines, and if you do that, AppReviewer *will*flag your application as malicious, causing it to disappear from the application directory. No e-mail will be sent to you in this case. If your application disappeared without an explanation, this may be your case. One common use case that developers may be tempted to address with a redirection is when the user runs the app without having it installed (for example, runs it from a friend's profile). This is called *running in guest mode*. Many applications try to redirect the user to the application's install page in this case, but doing that is not allowed (as per the Developer Guidelines) and will cause AppReviewer to flag your application. Instead, what you should do in that case is run your application in a way that allows the user to experience the application (and perhaps interact a bit with the owner of the app), perhaps *encouraging *(but not forcing)* *him to install the app on his own profile... If you app does not have this guest mode and you don't want to implement it, a reasonable solution is to simply display a screenshot of the app and suggest to the user that he must install your application on his profile in order to play it, giving him the instructions or the link that will allow him to do so. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Attention: redirecting the browser will cause your app to be flagged as malicious!
Hi Bruno Just noticed the following: activity dialog is making a refresh (when the user clicks post) and redirectng the user to the old orkut application canvas. The code is not doing anything like this. Seems the canvas is broken - can you check this? Is it happening on production also? thanks On Mar 16, 3:17 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hello developers, Just a word of advice, since this has come up a few times recently and I've seen a few forum threads about it. In your applications, *you may never redirect the browser (for example, by setting window.top.location -- or by any other method)*. Redirections are against the developer guidelines, and if you do that, AppReviewer *will*flag your application as malicious, causing it to disappear from the application directory. No e-mail will be sent to you in this case. If your application disappeared without an explanation, this may be your case. One common use case that developers may be tempted to address with a redirection is when the user runs the app without having it installed (for example, runs it from a friend's profile). This is called *running in guest mode*. Many applications try to redirect the user to the application's install page in this case, but doing that is not allowed (as per the Developer Guidelines) and will cause AppReviewer to flag your application. Instead, what you should do in that case is run your application in a way that allows the user to experience the application (and perhaps interact a bit with the owner of the app), perhaps *encouraging *(but not forcing)* *him to install the app on his own profile... If you app does not have this guest mode and you don't want to implement it, a reasonable solution is to simply display a screenshot of the app and suggest to the user that he must install your application on his profile in order to play it, giving him the instructions or the link that will allow him to do so. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Attention: redirecting the browser will cause your app to be flagged as malicious!
refresh/redirect happens on IE and FF when the user clicks post on activity dialog. It is orkut issue, it worked fine yesterday. Can you please fix it? thanks On Mar 16, 3:39 am, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno Just noticed the following: activity dialog is making a refresh (when the user clicks post) and redirectng the user to the old orkut application canvas. The code is not doing anything like this. Seems the canvas is broken - can you check this? Is it happening on production also? thanks On Mar 16, 3:17 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hello developers, Just a word of advice, since this has come up a few times recently and I've seen a few forum threads about it. In your applications, *you may never redirect the browser (for example, by setting window.top.location -- or by any other method)*. Redirections are against the developer guidelines, and if you do that, AppReviewer *will*flag your application as malicious, causing it to disappear from the application directory. No e-mail will be sent to you in this case. If your application disappeared without an explanation, this may be your case. One common use case that developers may be tempted to address with a redirection is when the user runs the app without having it installed (for example, runs it from a friend's profile). This is called *running in guest mode*. Many applications try to redirect the user to the application's install page in this case, but doing that is not allowed (as per the Developer Guidelines) and will cause AppReviewer to flag your application. Instead, what you should do in that case is run your application in a way that allows the user to experience the application (and perhaps interact a bit with the owner of the app), perhaps *encouraging *(but not forcing)* *him to install the app on his own profile... If you app does not have this guest mode and you don't want to implement it, a reasonable solution is to simply display a screenshot of the app and suggest to the user that he must install your application on his profile in order to play it, giving him the instructions or the link that will allow him to do so. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Attention: redirecting the browser will cause your app to be flagged as malicious!
btw, production is fine and doesn't have this issue however I would strongly advice not to push the current sandbox code into production. any clarifications? thanks On Mar 16, 3:50 am, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: refresh/redirect happens on IE and FF when the user clicks post on activity dialog. It is orkut issue, it worked fine yesterday. Can you please fix it? thanks On Mar 16, 3:39 am, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno Just noticed the following: activity dialog is making a refresh (when the user clicks post) and redirectng the user to the old orkut application canvas. The code is not doing anything like this. Seems the canvas is broken - can you check this? Is it happening on production also? thanks On Mar 16, 3:17 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hello developers, Just a word of advice, since this has come up a few times recently and I've seen a few forum threads about it. In your applications, *you may never redirect the browser (for example, by setting window.top.location -- or by any other method)*. Redirections are against the developer guidelines, and if you do that, AppReviewer *will*flag your application as malicious, causing it to disappear from the application directory. No e-mail will be sent to you in this case. If your application disappeared without an explanation, this may be your case. One common use case that developers may be tempted to address with a redirection is when the user runs the app without having it installed (for example, runs it from a friend's profile). This is called *running in guest mode*. Many applications try to redirect the user to the application's install page in this case, but doing that is not allowed (as per the Developer Guidelines) and will cause AppReviewer to flag your application. Instead, what you should do in that case is run your application in a way that allows the user to experience the application (and perhaps interact a bit with the owner of the app), perhaps *encouraging *(but not forcing)* *him to install the app on his own profile... If you app does not have this guest mode and you don't want to implement it, a reasonable solution is to simply display a screenshot of the app and suggest to the user that he must install your application on his profile in order to play it, giving him the instructions or the link that will allow him to do so. Thanks! - Bruno Oliveira (Google)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Is AppReviewer ok?
same here, see http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/eb1452e3df58939e/acc5cfe675ff9d78?show_docid=acc5cfe675ff9d78 On Mar 14, 2:40 pm, Glauber glauber...@gmail.com wrote: Today I received the following e-mail from AppReviewer: While reviewing your app, we observed: - There were HTTP problems fetching the following URLs referenced by your application. Please make sure that all referenced resources are available and reliably served: http://s77.flogao.com.br/photos/10/11/25/31/136051954.jpg; It's very confusing. There is no such url image in the app's code. What's going on with AppReviewer? AppID: 997317084936 Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Wrong emails from apps reviewer
same here: I get emails about urls referenced by my apps, however in reality I don't use those urls and they are not referenced from the app code. perhaps there is a major malfunction in the reviewer right now which is causing this. On Mar 12, 9:47 am, Prashant Patil prashantpandurangpa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Guides, please look on this issue. As i am getting random email for the resources i haven't used in my applications. case #1 : i haven't used any yahoo ads in my apps but its showing While reviewing your app, we observed: - There were HTTP problems fetching the following URLs referenced by your application. Please make sure that all referenced resources are available and reliably served: http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=popad_size=0x0entity=286128s... #2 I checked i know there are no such images used in my application. While reviewing your app, we observed: - There were HTTP problems fetching the following URLs referenced by your application. Please make sure that all referenced resources are available and reliably served: http://tvglobo.caldeiraodohuck.globo.com/files/2225/2010/10/Clique-aq... Again yesterday i got email and i fixed most of them but app reviewer still using same xml contents. Regards Prashant. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
The main issue here I think that it is mostly false positive due to some reviewer related intermittent latency issues. Many apps I got emails about are loading instantly. On Mar 3, 1:35 pm, as souzajo...@aol.com wrote: I think that Load Time it shoudn't be a issue for Orkut. Let users decide if the app it´s taking too much time to load. There are several flash games today on Orkut that take more time to load, because the files are huge. What's considered a lot time to load? Let users take action choosing the apps they want to have. Cheers On 2 mar, 13:27, Giovani gbpe...@gmail.com wrote: Same here, Bruno. I received a warning email about my application, which has been active for more than 2 years, and I never get at least users concerning about load time. I´ve tested it here now, and the time to load the application was about 10 seconds. Is this considered a lot for you? What´s the time limit for loading the application? Other message I´ve received was - Found malicious content in description or urls accessed by this app. Since my application is about the Holy Bible, I really dont believe there is malicious content there. Could you please detail what malicious content was found, so I can remove it? The appid is 83913050748. On 2 mar, 11:33, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: same here, once again I get these automated messages these are obviously problem with app reviewer please check On Mar 2, 3:39 pm, as souzajo...@aol.com wrote: I do have the same issue about loading time. I´ve received several messages about it. I did test it, and for me they are just fine. On 24 fev, 12:50, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: strange, it's hosted on AWS, never had had any issues with that... On Feb 24, 5:31 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: I tried again and it loaded instantly this time. Perhaps it was a temporary issue with the network here or somewhere in between our office and the place where you are hosting one of your resources. Please let us know if you receive the e-mail again...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
same here, once again I get these automated messages these are obviously problem with app reviewer please check On Mar 2, 3:39 pm, as souzajo...@aol.com wrote: I do have the same issue about loading time. I´ve received several messages about it. I did test it, and for me they are just fine. On 24 fev, 12:50, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: strange, it's hosted on AWS, never had had any issues with that... On Feb 24, 5:31 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: I tried again and it loaded instantly this time. Perhaps it was a temporary issue with the network here or somewhere in between our office and the place where you are hosting one of your resources. Please let us know if you receive the e-mail again...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
strange, it's hosted on AWS, never had had any issues with that... On Feb 24, 5:31 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: I tried again and it loaded instantly this time. Perhaps it was a temporary issue with the network here or somewhere in between our office and the place where you are hosting one of your resources. Please let us know if you receive the e-mail again... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: IMPORTANT: New JS/HTML parser! Please check your apps still work!
Hi Tiago While I unuderstand that you can't check each and everyone apps rendering I'd suggest to test top 10-20 each time there is a major change like this. Just for sanity purposes. It happened in the past that the largest apps were broken after changes. thanks On Feb 23, 2:27 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: ... We also found a bug with the new parser and Data Pipelining. The fix is submitted and should be reaching sandbox today or tomorrow. I urge you to test your apps again, both the canvas and profile view, and please report any issues here. It's a deep change, with plenty of automated testing, but we can't really look at each rendered app ourselves. Regards, Tiago -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
for example appid 272506434405 On Feb 23, 5:10 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Interesting. Could you give me an appID of one of these apps that load pretty fast and for which you are receiving this e-mail? I'm very interested in finding good cases of false positives so we can review our algorithm and see if it really makes sense. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Sandbox down? Prod sandbox to the rescue!
thanks Is there any problem with regular sandbox right now? profile box is not rendering, many server unavailable errors. Apps intermittenly show as if they are uninstalled when viewing a canvas view. On Feb 14, 9:50 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi folks, Just a quick reminder: if Sandbox is down, do not despair: use prod sandbox! http://prod.sandbox.orkut.com Prod sandbox is a sandbox that runs the same binary as production and has a very similar configuration, so it's a good way to test your applications. - Bruno Oliveira, btco Google -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Attention: AS post and Profile View size will be adjusted soon. Please update your apps!
I see. Just wanted to check but I'm getting errors on sandbox in profile view and profile box is not renderng: Que feio, servidor! Você não pode fazer isso. Is there any problem right now on profile view in sandbox? Canvas view is working but is very slow (slower than production) thanks On Feb 23, 5:06 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: They are bigger currently. Activity stream entries are now 445px, so they are about to lose 20 pixels. Profile view size is now... uh... I don't know embarassing :-) I'll check and post later. But it will become 480px soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
3 hours are you serious? it is loading instantly, I suppose you're testing it on production and not on sandbox since sandbox has real issue right now. if this app is loading 3 hours for you and not 1 sec, something very serious I suspect is going on at orkut. On Feb 23, 8:45 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Your app seems to be taking a long time to load for me. I waited for around 3 hours and it didn't finish loading. What are you doing on startup? Maybe it's something that's quick when you test it at your location, but when we test it in our location, it takes (a lot) longer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Attention: AS post and Profile View size will be adjusted soon. Please update your apps!
so what are the current widths? On Feb 22, 5:46 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi developers, We'd like to give you a heads-up about a layout adjustment we're doing soon: - The width of *Activity Stream updates* will be changed to *425px* - The *Profile View width* will be changed to *480px* If your application already uses flexible HTML for these elements (i.e. no hard-coded dimensions or constraints), then congratulations, you have just reaped the benefits of good design! You don't have to do anyting :-) If your application does not use flexible HTML and is specifically tailored to the current widths, please update it as soon as you can! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
today I got another series of identical emails which look like so: - The app took too long to load. Some of the possible reasons for this are: (1) perhaps you are displaying a modal dialog (popup). If this is the case, please remove the popup; (2) perhaps the code that executes when the page loads is taking too long to finish.Are you doing too much processing? An infinite loop? Are you performing a synchronousoperation involving the network?; (3) perhaps you are trying to load too many resources (images, media, scripts, etc). Perhaps it's best to cut back on resources or load them later instead of trying to do that when the page is first shown; (4) there might be a vulnerability in the way user-generated-content is rendered, that is, perhaps there is a way to exploit your application to make it run arbitrary code. Please sanitize all user- generated content, including names, comments, messages, titles and other fields. I checked and all mentioned apps are loading just fine and fast. It looks like another false positive. Not to mention no popups are used and also some of the apps in uestion are so light that do not use external scripts or any images - and yet I get these emails. Other apps do use scripts and images but that should not be an issue since modern sites all use images. All images are cached btw. Is it neccessary to send this kind of emails? thanks On Feb 17, 12:00 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Yes, for now AppReviewer doesn't know who got the name first, so he sends both authors the same warning about the duplicate name. We'll figure out (and tell everyone) how we'll deal with this kind of situation when we're ready to launch AppReviewer for real. For now, consider the name clash detection feature as a beta feature... no one's app will be removed for name clashes yet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: New features: configurable app width and container version!
Hi Bruno
Can you please clarify, if I don't change anything the width would be
835 as it is today?
Is it correct?
thanks
On Feb 22, 5:04 am, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com
wrote:
Hello orkut developers,
We now support two cool new features for gadgets in canvas view:
- Container version detection
- Flexible application width
A quick introduction follows. We hope you enjoy them! They're enabled on
sandbox and should reach production soon. If you have any feedback, please
let us know!
*Container Version Detection*
The Container Version is supplied to your gadget in a new iframe parameter
(containerVersion) in canvas view, so it can be retrieved like this:
var containerVersion = gadgets.util.getUrlParameters()[containerVersion];
Its value is 1 for the canvas view container in the old orkut UI and 2 for
the canvas view container in the new orkut UI. You can read this to
determine which container your application is running inside of. Please be
aware, however, that container version is not the same as orkut UI
version... for now, there is a 1-to-1 correspondence (1 for old orkut, 2
for new orkut) but this may come out of sync when we launch new container
versions or new UIs.
*Configurable App Width*
That's right, we now support configurable width for applications in canvas
view!
You can specify a preferred width to orkut in your applications XML by
means of the preferred_width attribute of the Content tag:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
Module
ModulePrefs title=Yourtitlehere
author=authorhere
author_email=email_h...@..com
description=Description here
screenshot=http://url/of/a/screenshot/of/your/app;
thumbnail=http://url/of/the/thumbnail/for/your/app;
Require feature=opensocial-0.8 /
Locale lang=en country=us /
/ModulePrefs
Content type=html *preferred_width=900*
![CDATA[
...
/Content
/Module
The container will try to allocate your indicated width but might have to
crop it if it's too big and expand it if it's too small. The actual width
will be reported to you in the gadgetWidth iframe parameter.
Some points to take into account are:
- The preferred_width parameter will only be taken into account when
rendering your application on container version 2, but will be ignored in
container version 1.
- The container might or might not honor your preferred width depending
on the available space.
- The gadgetWidth iframe parameter is only available to your application
in container version 2 and above. This is the slight catch we were
talking
about above.
Therefore, the correct way to determine your application's actual width is
first testing the container version and then, if the version is 2 or above,
reading the gadgetWidth parameter. Otherwise (container version 1), the
width of the gadget is fixed at 835px. So an example of Javascript code
would be:
// Determines the actual width of the application
function getActualWidth() {
return (gadgets.util.getUrlParameters()[containerVersion] = 2) ?
gadgets.util.getUrlParameters()[gadgetWidth] : 835;
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[orkut-developer] Re: AppReviewer now checking live apps -- you may receive e-mails!
I got a couple of emails about similar name of exisitng apps. It is definitely false positive since at the time of creation (long time ago) and long time after that those names are/were unique. My apps are original. So what gives this check? Let's suppose it is working properly - then the copy-cat developer receives such a message he can just change the title and get away with it. any thoughts? thanks On Feb 16, 8:56 pm, Bruno Oliveira (\btco\) bru...@google.com wrote: Hi, We've been working a lot on AppReviewer lately and today we brought it up for live testing. It now runs not only on pending apps but also runs periodically on apps that are live. So, if you have apps live on orkut, you may start receiving e-mails from AppReviewer alerting you of problems in your applications and saying that your application failed review. Don't panic: during this test period, live applications that fail review by AppReviewer will not be taken down because of that. But regardless, you should pay attention to the e-mail and apply the necessary corrections on your application to ensure that it will survive review when we bring AppReviewer up for real. We have also considerably improved the messages that AppReviewer sends you, so it should now be easier to figure out what you have to fix in your application. If you have any doubts, please ask here in the forum and we'll be happy to help. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] regarding [KNOWN ISSUE #K08] profile view temporary disabled
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_frm/thread/dc1a3b918e75eee6 To orkut team: 1) There is no explanation why profile view is disabled for apps. 2) We don't have clear dates when it is going to be disabled or any ETA when is it going to be enabled. Last time profile views had been disabled it lasted half year (in 2009 afaik). Developers are loosing traffic and we don't get any exaplanation from orkut why such vital sources of traffic as profile views are disabled on the live site or why don't we get any ETA. Waiting for some clarifications... thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: IMPORTANT: New JS/HTML parser! Please check your apps still work!
Sandbox is very slow lately, much slower than production, is there any other reason for it to be so slow, maybe cache issues? On Feb 4, 6:24 pm, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Hello, folks. 2. *Faster (we think):* We believe it renders faster, but we don't have real usage data for it yet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: News about Activity Stream!
Hi Bruno What does it mean activities of the same type? does it mean they arrive from the same app or they have the same title/body/image, etc? thanks On Feb 3, 4:34 am, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Sorry, my explanation was a little short. The idea is that when you have several activities of the same type, they will appear collapsed in a single activity slot on the user's stream, with a button to expand/collapse. Rather than seeing a ton of similar activities, you'd see only the first activity and then a link saying 12 similar activities from ___. Upon clicking that link, you'd see the rest of the activities from that user. This allows us to present more activities while preserving space on the interface... Not everyone has this change active yet, as it's slowly rolling out to our user base. So if you don't see the change yet, don't worry, you will see it soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: News about Activity Stream!
What FB does is much more sophisticated than that, i.e. they can group activities from several apps for the same user if commited during a short period of time. If then there is half hour delay between new activities - those go ungroupped (or groupped in a new group). Also: it will be unfair to give all apps the same amount of 1 activity visible. Let's take a big app with lots of content where users spend 1-2 hours playing every day and making many different activities, and some small app where users spend 1 minute of their time. If both have the same 1 activity visible I think that would be incorrect. On Feb 3, 6:22 am, Mr . Nobody scra...@gmail.com wrote: Same Type means One app will show 1 Activity at a Time All Other Activities will be Hidden Below that activity Just Like FB Does On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM, anatoly anato...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno What does it mean activities of the same type? does it mean they arrive from the same app or they have the same title/body/image, etc? thanks On Feb 3, 4:34 am, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Sorry, my explanation was a little short. The idea is that when you have several activities of the same type, they will appear collapsed in a single activity slot on the user's stream, with a button to expand/collapse. Rather than seeing a ton of similar activities, you'd see only the first activity and then a link saying 12 similar activities from ___. Upon clicking that link, you'd see the rest of the activities from that user. This allows us to present more activities while preserving space on the interface... Not everyone has this change active yet, as it's slowly rolling out to our user base. So if you don't see the change yet, don't worry, you will see it soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comopensocial-orkut%2Bunsubscribe...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: News about Activity Stream!
Yeah, can you please give details and maybe a screenshot that explains this feature more? Will it display more activities from the same app and group them instead of replacing them? On Jan 21, 11:00 pm, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Hi, I have some good news for apps that use the Activity Stream. We've recently revised the activity stream filtering algorithm and also introduced a new mechanism for grouping together similar/related activites together on the interface. This allows orkut to display more updates from applications while maintaining the balance between different activity types. This change is rolling out to our user base as I write, and should reach 100% of users in the next few weeks. We expect this change to increase the users' engagement with applications. Looking forward to your feedback! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] regarding [KNOWN ISSUE #K07] requestSendMessage sends e-mail with broken links/HTML
Hello As a follow up on a known issue reported by orkut (requestSendMessage sends e-mail with broken links/HTML) see announcement here: http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/c97ba1fde8c305a1/f27268b10f7447a6?show_docid=f27268b10f7447a6pli=1 A couple of additional issues: 1) a link generated by orkut in the body of email links to AppInfo instead of PublicAppInfo page (sent by app text). 2) It would be nice to have an application icon in the text generated by orkut in addition. img + href tags in emails have worked fine just a while ago. When can we expect a fix? Any ETA? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: NEWS: AppInfo page now smartly redirects to Canvas page
Didn't know about the public info url (PublicAppInfo). Just tested and it correctly redirects to canvas if the user has the app installed. I'm a bit confused though since when the app is not installed and I go to PublicAppInfo I'm redirected to AppInfo. Is it safe to link to PublicAppInfo? I mean is this behavour final or should we expect to changes? thanks On Dec 12, 9:05 pm, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Sorry, by public app info page, I had meant: http://www.orkut.com/Main#PublicAppInfo?appId=[APP_ID_HERE] Indeed, the format #AppInfo? URL format does not perform the redirect. Thanks pointing this out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: NEWS: AppInfo page now smartly redirects to Canvas page
Just tested this and I have the app installed but I'm not redirected from info to canvas. I'm staying on info. info page looks like so: http://www.orkut.com/Main#AppInfo?appId=[APP_ID_HERE] am I missing something? thanks On Dec 10, 6:47 pm, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Hey everyone, I'd like to announce a new feature. It's a minor change but it's really handy. The AppInfo page now smartly redirects to Canvas page. This means less clicks and likely more ad conversions. Before: Users landing in the AppInfo page for an app were shown the app info regardless of whether he had the app installed or not. Users who had it installed had to click View App in order to run it. Now: Upon landing in the AppInfo page, a smarter decision is made: if the user already has the application installed on his profile, he is immediately redirected to the Canvas page for the app. If he does not have the app, he remains in the App Info page. Why this is cool: If you are attracting users to your app info page via ads or links elsewhere, users will land in the appropriate page: - old users who already had the app will go straight into the Canvas page and run the app without having to go through the extra step of clicking View App. This will probably up your ad conversions from existing users. - new users who do not have the app will be given a chance to learn more about it and install it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: NEWS: AppInfo page now smartly redirects to Canvas page
that's cool. what is better then now - attract existing/new users to the info page or canvas page? (since canvas page url is sometimes hard to detect) it will be cool also to do vice a versa: if a user lands on the canvas page and the app is not installed - she is redirected to the info page? maybe I'm missing something - this behaviour has changed several times already. another question - where does activity story link (via ... ) redirect now? thanks On Dec 10, 6:47 pm, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: Hey everyone, I'd like to announce a new feature. It's a minor change but it's really handy. The AppInfo page now smartly redirects to Canvas page. This means less clicks and likely more ad conversions. Before: Users landing in the AppInfo page for an app were shown the app info regardless of whether he had the app installed or not. Users who had it installed had to click View App in order to run it. Now: Upon landing in the AppInfo page, a smarter decision is made: if the user already has the application installed on his profile, he is immediately redirected to the Canvas page for the app. If he does not have the app, he remains in the App Info page. Why this is cool: If you are attracting users to your app info page via ads or links elsewhere, users will land in the appropriate page: - old users who already had the app will go straight into the Canvas page and run the app without having to go through the extra step of clicking View App. This will probably up your ad conversions from existing users. - new users who do not have the app will be given a chance to learn more about it and install it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: NEWS: AppInfo page now smartly redirects to Canvas page
so activity via link redirects to app canvas, is this correct? On Dec 12, 8:21 am, Bruno Oliveira bru...@google.com wrote: It's best to attract users to the app info page. That way they will be correctly redirected. Remember that applications still have a guest mode, which happens when a user who does not have the app views it on someone else's profile (he can arrive there through the via link, for instance). That's what you get when you land in the canvas view of an app on someone else's profile and you don't have it installed. The recommended practice is that applications should have a guest mode in which the user can get a feel for the application without installing it. Applications must not redirect guest users from Canvas Page to the App Info page. Users who like the app in guest mode should install it using the Add App button on the frame (the app can help by pointing it out to the user, but the app must not force him to click it). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Is sandbox down?
I see This content cannot be displayed in a frame error message on all apps @sandbox anyone from orkut can comment? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] content not updated on production
Hello I observe now that content is not updated on production. What's happening? There was a similar problem on sandbox - was it pushed recently to production? bpc helps for 1 page load only, content is not updated. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Sandbox being updated right now.
activities links are still broken on production ok on sandbox. On Oct 28, 4:06 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: You should also see proper via XXX links in the activities generated by your apps. This one is also coming to production today or tomorrow. On Oct 28, 11:59 am, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: This push should fix the problem adding apps from the MyApps page. Note that we changed the way safe apps are handled, so apps added directly via their XML are not marked safe yet. You need to go to the settings in the old ui and change the content filter to show all content, otherwise you'll get that annoying message This gadget cannot be dispalyed because of users age or safety settings. This will also be fixed in a future release.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] Re: Sandbox being updated right now.
doesn't work for me same apps are updated correctly on production but not updated on sandbox. 1 app is not updated at all and another one failed to pick translations xmls. On Oct 30, 5:32 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: More good news! We have a partial fix for the XML spec caching issue in sandbox now. Please test that changing the content of your XML file is picked up in 5 to 10 minutes later, even without bpc=1. We'll keep working on stability and correctness next week. Best regards, Tiago On Oct 28, 12:06 pm, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: You should also see proper via XXX links in the activities generated by your apps. This one is also coming to production today or tomorrow. On Oct 28, 11:59 am, Tiago Silveira (Google) t...@google.com wrote: This push should fix the problem adding apps from the MyApps page. Note that we changed the way safe apps are handled, so apps added directly via their XML are not marked safe yet. You need to go to the settings in the old ui and change the content filter to show all content, otherwise you'll get that annoying message This gadget cannot be dispalyed because of users age or safety settings. This will also be fixed in a future release.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
[orkut-developer] broken links on activities feed
Hello Application links on activities feed are broken - they link to http://www.orkut.com instead of linking to the app that posted the activity. Links worked correctly a week ago. This may be critical for retention - please fix. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups orkut Developer Forum group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-or...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.
