Google+ Reveals API to Developers

Michael Garrity — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:00:00 GMT

It's officially time for Google+ to go to the next level, and they made a big first step by (finally) releasing the first documents of the Google+ API on its new Google+ Platform Blog.

The G+ team claims that this is "just the beginning" of opening up their platform to outside developers.

They clearly lay out their policies for independent developers in their blog, which is best summed up with their three primary principles: put the user first, be transparent and respect user data.

Google+ is now considerably closer to becoming a legitimate challenger for Facebook's social networking crown, although they're clearly taking it slow and practicing caution in choosing what they release at the moment.

As of now, only information on public data has been, well, made public, and because it's based on open, public data, it's really easy for developers to authorize apps.

Despite the limited release of only the public data aspects of the API, this seems to be enough to tide over the hungry developers who have been hotly anticipating the information so that they can start working with Google+.

Who is excited about this big news from Google+?

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Google+ Reveals API to Developers