Get the latest alerts and community news about eBay Web Services here in our blog.
eBay opens up SM Apps beta plaform to gadget developers
Posted by
Delyn Simons
in Product News, Program Events, Developer Community & Partner News
Wednesday, Apr.08.2009, 12:34 PM PT
eBay has always supported open standards for Web development. We have been an open API platform for over 8 years, but now that we've opened up Selling Manager as a beta platform for developers, we've chosen to embrace the gadgets specification
as defined within OpenSocial. Using the concept of gadget containers, developers are able to take existing gadgets and re-mix and re-use them
in innovative new ways across the Web.
Our platform architect, Farhang
Kassaei spoke to Chris Schalk of the Google Code team at Web 2.0 Expo last week about eBay's decision to standardize our architecture for this platform to the OpenSocial gadgets specification. If you missed Farhang's session at Web 2.0 Expo with David Glazer, the Director of Engineering from Google, then make sure to check out Farhang's post on the OpenSocial blog or the video below.
Open standards allow developers to innovate
more quickly across platforms, and that makes the Web better for
everyone.
Enjoy the video!
-Delyn
