hi5 Platform Goes Live
Posted by Nick O'Neill on March 31st, 2008 12:55 PM
As I mentioned last week, two platforms will be going live this week. This morning hi5 went live and with it the opportunity to gain rapid traction for your applications. There are absolutely no limits on application invites currently sparking yet another gold rush for application developers. The only difference this time is that OpenSocial is the standard for development making it a little more challenging to rapidly push out a new application.
I have yet to figure out how to install an application but I’ll be sure to let you know when I do! According to hi5 more than 7,700 developers have joined the platform so far and it’s growing rapidly. It has been a big few weeks for OpenSocial and it will continue to be as Orkut is expected to launch this week. This launch is important particularly because this is the first OpenSource-enabled platform to launch with viral distribution channels.
All applications will go through a review process which will be done on a first-come-first-serve basis. As I mentioned the other day, one of the largest challenges with these applications is that they are not as easy to develop as Facebook apps which have an extremely simple library making it easy to rapidly launch new applications. Once the application directory goes live I will be sure to provide a link as we begin tracking the growth of each app.
Update
Below is an image of the unreleased hi5 application directory that was forwarded to me. It will be launched in the coming weeks according to hi5. Applications can currently be installed though and are distributed strictly through existing viral channels.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I think everything you need is here: http://www.hi5networks.com/developer/
March 31st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Not the application directory … they’re going to send me screen shots though
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Hi Nick,
The gallery is actually live as well as the viral channels. The reason we sent you a screenshot for the gallery is that we are ramping up the platform release to users over the course of this week, so not every user will see the platform yet when they log in. We are already getting ready to release to 50% of our userbase today and are optimistic we’ll be fully live soon. We’ll post to our developer blog when that happens.
-Lou