17 messages in com.googlegroups.opensocial-orkutRe: Launch plan update
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Jesse Stay26 Feb 2008 20:23 
jalmond26 Feb 2008 21:10 
victorc27 Feb 2008 01:42 
Dust...@gmail.com27 Feb 2008 09:18 
Suhail Doshi27 Feb 2008 13:09 
Jerome27 Feb 2008 15:42 
Alex Epshteyn27 Feb 2008 20:03 
Alex Epshteyn27 Feb 2008 20:05 
Lane LiaBraaten (Google)27 Feb 2008 21:55 
Suhail Doshi27 Feb 2008 23:16 
Dust...@gmail.com28 Feb 2008 10:46 
victorc01 Mar 2008 15:00 
JevS02 Mar 2008 18:28 
toby...@gmail.com03 Mar 2008 07:12 
tomk07 Mar 2008 09:08 
Dustin Jorge07 Mar 2008 09:09 
tomk07 Mar 2008 09:39 
Subject:Re: Launch plan update
From:Alex Epshteyn (alex@gmail.com)
Date:02/27/2008 08:03:10 PM
List:com.googlegroups.opensocial-orkut

I can understand your concern, but it seemed fairly obvious around the time of the hackathons that the sandbox wasn't sufficiently stable to get the green light this week. It's been having issues the past few weeks.

I fully agree with Google's decision to push back the date. I'm concerned that even their new release date might be a bit early, but then again, "release early and often" is just as much a core value of theirs as "don't be evil." :)

It's a hard software project with very ambitious goals.

By the way, what makes you think that MySpace is launching any time soon? I doubt it's going to be any time before April.

Alex

On Feb 26, 11:24 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>.

-- Posted By Peter Harbison to orkut Developer
Blog<http://orkutdeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/02/launch-plan-update.html>at
2/26/2008 11:04:00 A

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