Developer API for Google+: It is coming
Developer API for Google+: It’s coming
by Rafe Needleman
Google’s new social network, Google+, has only been public for two days, and developers are already interested in access to the service so they are able to roll out add-ons and improvements.
Luckily for them, and ultimately for Google+ users, developer access is coming. It really is merely a matter of time. As Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google, told me at a Net two.0 Summit cocktail party tonight, “I’m a developer guy in the core. It is inconceivable I would make something with out a platform.”
Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President of Social for Google.
(Credit: Julie Blaustein)
Gundotra worked for 15 years at Microsoft just before leaving for Google. His final job there was as general manager of platform evangelism. It’s fair to say he’s got the background for constructing systems that developers can develop upon.
But it is not surprising that Google+ launched not having developer access. The service is far from completely baked. “We’re just getting started out!” Gundotra gushed to me when we talked. The characteristics and functions of Google+ will likely modify substantially in short order. Far more functions might be undoubtedly be added to the service, too as increased integration with other Google apps. Giving developers access now may very well be premature, as some may develop goods that end up duplicating functions that Google itself is just about to layer into the publicly readily available service.
But opening up Google+ to developers eventually could enable all manner of add-ons and improvements, from third-party access apps, like Tweetdeck was for Twitter (just before 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 rapidly perform of managing and sorting contacts into circles.
Google is collecting names from developers who desire to know once the organization launches developer tools. There is an e-mail and Google Group sign-up on the internet now.
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