Developer API for Google+: It really is coming

Developer API for Google+: It is coming

by Rafe Needleman

Google's new social network, Google+, has only been public for two days, and developers are currently serious about access to the service so they can roll out add-ons and enhancements.

Thankfully for them, and eventually for Google+ users, developer access is coming. It really is basically a matter of time. As Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google, told me at a Web two.0 Summit cocktail celebration tonight, "I'm a developer guy at the core. It's inconceivable I would create some thing without having a platform."

Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President of Social for Google.
(Credit: Julie Blaustein)

Gundotra worked for 15 years at Microsoft before leaving for Google. His final job there was as basic manager of platform evangelism. It really is fair to say he's got the background for making systems that developers can make upon.

Nevertheless it just isn't surprising that Google+ launched without having developer access. The service is far from completely baked. "We're just acquiring started out!" Gundotra gushed to me when we talked. The features and functions of Google+ will most likely modify substantially in brief order. Additional functions will likely be definitely be additional for the service, also as increased integration with other Google apps. Giving developers access now might be premature, as some may possibly assemble items that finish up duplicating attributes that Google itself is just about to layer in to the publicly available service.

But opening up Google+ to developers ultimately could allow all manner of add-ons and enhancements, from third-party access apps, like Tweetdeck was for Twitter (prior to 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 makes faster function of managing and sorting contacts into circles.

Google is collecting names from developers who desire to know once the organization launches developer tools. There's an e-mail and Google Group sign-up on the internet now.

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