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Gigya Connects MySpace and Facebook APIs

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Today Gigya announced that the company’s Socialize service will begin granting access to the API on Facebook and will integrate with MySpace later this month. The company is trying to bridge the gap for social application developers that are forced to spend time porting their Facebook a ... Continue reading »

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  • lhaus

    10 months ago

    Hi Nick, thanks for the post!

    Thanks much for covering Gigya's product news in your post yesterday. I wanted to briefly clarify some key details of the product release.
    Gigya Socialize is currently able to access the social graph APIs of both MySpace and Facebook. Please note that both social networks are currently available!

    Socialize enables website owners to add social features to web sites by making it easy for them to give their user's access to their friend lists on Facebook and MySpace as well as webmail services. Socialize is not a tool for porting Facebook applications to MySpace. Socialize gives website developers direct access to Gigya's API for custom implementations, or they can choose to implement turnkey components, hence its direct competition with Google Friend Connect. The announcement is more in the realm of data portability than about OpenSocial and application platform standards.

    Additionally, Gigya enjoys wide scale developer adoption with thousands of partners using its Wildfire widget technology. According to comScore, Gigya is the largest widget platform worldwide in terms of reach.

    Looking forward to a great conference on Monday, see you then.
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  • Racing School

    7 months ago

    I've tested Gigya and it's really cool for API developers. They should have been out earlier.
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