Re: [orkut-developer] Re: Launch plan update - Dinesh Kumar Subramanian - com.googlegroups.opensocial-orkut

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Dinesh Kumar Subramanian	26 Feb 2008 21:40
Alex Epshteyn	27 Feb 2008 22:01

Subject:	Re: [orkut-developer] Re: Launch plan update
From:	Dinesh Kumar Subramanian (dine...@gmail.com)
Date:	02/26/2008 09:40:08 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.opensocial-orkut

Hi All,

Even i too agree with you people. In the light of all I want to know is there any developers App been accepted or only the App of the partners like [rockyou, slide, like etc] were accepted.

If any of developers App is accepted I would say its ok. and we have to work hard and make our app much better to get it listed.

But if its only the partner aka the big players then i would say its not openSocial its closedSocial.

Let us all know if any of the developers app is accepted.

dinesh

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:11 PM, jalmond <jalm...@travature.com> wrote:

Definitely anyone from the Google/Orkut team that's reading this, jesse is fully right, this is amazingly bad form, and its certainly no way to build a good development community.

Like Jess, my company diverted time, resources, and money to make sure we were there for launch date (or the prelaunch date if thats what its being called now). In fact this was a HUGE reason why we chose to develop on Orkut; the playing field was supposed to be leveled and everyone got a fair shot. Obviously that's pretty clutch for any apps in a competitive spaces where the snowball effect is in play.

Now from the announcement, I'm left wondering what's going on. What does "we'll push just a few apps to production " mean? Some fuzzy 4 week window where some apps get exclusive access to build up users before others (who submitted the apps by your deadline) have to wait?

I'm certainly hoping some further clarification will come out, because the blog post, on first read, comes off pretty harshly to those of us who pushed hard to be there on day 1 to users.

-Jeremy Almond

On Feb 26, 8:24 pm, "Jesse Stay" <jess...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't tell you how frustrated I am with this announcement. I spent good money to go out to the hackathon 2 weeks ago just so my app would be launched with the Orkut first launch on OpenSocial. I'm very disappointed that one day before the launch you guys pull the plug. A lot of us developers have invested a ton of our time and resources helping you get this live and we can't even celebrate with you. Now, with the Orkut launch being so close to the Myspace launch I'm going to have to divert my efforts to Myspace. You guys can't make an official date announcement and then change it to an entire week later, only for a select few, just a day before the original launch date!

Just my $.02 FWIW

Jesse

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Peter Harbison <harb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product Manager

We've made a couple of modifications to the launch plan detailed in this post<http://orkutdeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/02/its-final-countdownto-laun...>.

We've decided to have a pre-launch testing period in which we'll push just a few apps to production -- this will likely happen next week. We are notifying the apps that will be in the directory for this initial testing period today (Feb. 26th). If you submitted an app, but are not selected for the pre-launch testing phase, hang tight...we'll contact you before the launch.

After the pre-launch testing is complete and we are confident that the platform is ready, we will launch the platform to developers. We expect the pre-launch testing to take around four weeks. When we launch, we will be whitelisting apps on a daily basis assuming they meet the criteria (not malware or spammy, no 404 errors, etc).

As we and our users get comfortable with apps on orkut, we will remove the whitelisting process and you will be able to add apps to the directory yourself.

We apologize for delaying the launch a few weeks. We feel that this pre-launch testing period will ensure that users are introduced to apps in the best way possible.

If you have any questions about this new launch plan, let us know in the orkut developer forum <http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut>.

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