Developer API for Google+: It’s coming
Developer API for Google+: It really is coming
by Rafe Needleman
Google’s new social network, Google+, has only been public for two days, and developers are already thinking about access towards the service so they are able to roll out add-ons and enhancements.
Luckily for them, and ultimately for Google+ users, developer access is coming. It is simply a matter of time. As Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google, told me at a Internet 2.0 Summit cocktail celebration tonight, “I’m a developer guy at the core. It truly is inconceivable I would assemble some thing with out a platform.”
Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President of Social for Google.
(Credit: Julie Blaustein)
Gundotra worked for 15 years at Microsoft prior to leaving for Google. His final job there was as basic manager of platform evangelism. It is fair to say he’s got the background for setting up systems that developers can create upon.
However it just isn’t surprising that Google+ launched with no developer access. The service is far from completely baked. “We’re just finding started out!” Gundotra gushed to me when we talked. The features and functions of Google+ will most likely transform substantially in brief order. Much more functions will probably be absolutely be additional to the service, at the same time as increased integration with other Google apps. Giving developers access now might be premature, as some may well assemble solutions that finish up duplicating attributes that Google itself is just about to layer into the publicly obtainable service.
But opening up Google+ to developers sooner or later could enable all manner of add-ons and improvements, from third-party access apps, like Tweetdeck was for Twitter (ahead of Twitter acquired it); to Zynga-like games that access the Google social graph; to other utilities and add-ons. Personally, I’d prefer to see a utility that tends to make more quickly perform of managing and sorting contacts into circles.
Google is collecting names from developers who desire to know when the company launches developer tools. There’s an e-mail and Google Group sign-up on the web now.
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