Mountain View, California — Aspiring social networking outfit Google waited patiently until crossing 100 million G+ users before announcing that they are launching a Google+ Developers page on its social network, ramping up app creation efforts to stay abreast of news regarding the Google+ platform, events, community goings-on, and other stuff of interest to developers.
Last May, Twitter has abruptly throttled usage of its API for third-party developers, covertly attempting to buy them, like Summify. On the other hand, Facebook has witnessed similar improvements and engagement thanks to a huge ecosystem of developers and companies building apps and games on its platform. Then last autumn, Google rolled out its Google+ API in order to unite parts of its social network with third party applications, and now the firm has put up a Google+ developers page.
Of course, Google+ has not exposed enough of its platform for developers to enjoy any type of innovation. But now, Google+ aims to utilize its new developer page to encourage more third-party app development for its own social network, and a more formal API could soon follow.
In fact, the big thing that will change now will be the weekly Hangouts, where Google+ developers can gather important facts. Here is what Google+ Developer Relations lead Chris Chabot had to say about it:
Our team will conduct regular Hangouts to discuss about the +Platform, your experiences with it, and share tips and tricks with the community. Google+ will host weekly 45-minute ‘office hour hangouts’ that will take place every Wednesday at 11:30am – 12:15pm PDT to exchange information with developers and share best practices for app development on the Google+ Developers page, according to Chabot’s blog entry.
So far, the excitement seems harmonious among the comments on the inaugural post on the Developers page. Moreover, it seems like lots of people perhaps–developers–are anxious to get more information about the Google+ API.
Besides, with all the excitement the company is hoping that by holding weekly Google+ hangouts, the +Platform team will also share Google+ developer events, conferences and hackathons, as well as photos and videos of the events.
In addition, we will announce and discuss our +Platform launches on our page, and developers will show more interest in integrating Google+ features within their applications.
Until now, Google has released specific guidelines allowing developers to create user badges in Google+, but app experts await an API that allows them to incorporate offerings with Facebook and Twitter, enabling cross-posting between the three main social media platforms to drive up app use and advertising.
This follows the recent launch of Google’s Android Developers Google+ page at the end of last month, which already attracts many developers, and the software development community has expressed interest in creating apps for Google+ since its launch last year.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant is under pressure to integrate more apps with its social media site in the wake of Facebook’s IPO last week. For Google to make 2012 an exciting year for Google+, it needs to have third party developers on its side, and its Google+ hangouts could be a good first step.
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