Social Music Service Qloud to Support New OpenSocial APIs
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) November 5, 2007 -- Qloud (http://www.qloud.com), backed by Steve Case and a "supergroup" of Internet and music luminaries, today announced that it is fully embracing the new OpenSocial APIs launched by Google (http://www.google.com) as a fundamental step toward quickly and easily making the web more social.
The Qloud My Music application is a revolutionary music service that delivers online music to users how they want it - legal, cost-free, on-demand and linked to their personal music libraries - and where they want it - inside social networks where they can share music with and discover it through their friends. By supporting OpenSocial, Qloud will dramatically expand its availability on social platforms and accelerate adoption of its popular music service.
Qloud was one of the first companies to participate in the OpenSocial initiative. Its feedback and development efforts helped craft the OpenSocial API. Qloud My Music's application is now running in the developer sandbox provided on Orkut.
"The OpenSocial programming model developed by Google is a breakthrough step toward maximizing the social potential of the web," said Mike Lewis, co-founder of Qloud. "OpenSocial is providing a fast and efficient way for Qloud and other innovators to deliver compelling social applications."
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs, launched today by Google, for building social applications on the web. Common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications. OpenSocial will bring more powerful and pervasive social capabilities to the web because developers will be able to develop and distribute their applications more easily. Users will be able to enjoy new social features faster and in more of the websites, web applications, and social networks they use. More information is available at code.google.com.
About Qloud:
Qloud delivers free, on-demand music directly from a web browser, leveraging an iTunes plug-in to connect users to others in the community with similar musical tastes, and provides a Qloud Facebook application for sharing music with friends. The company's investors and directors include Revolution Chairman and CEO Steve Case and former AOL, Yahoo!, Warner Music Group, EMI Music, and Island Records music executives. For more information visit www.qloud.com.
Google, Orkut, and OpenSocial are trademarks of Google Inc.
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