The Google+ API Is Released

An anonymous reader writes "Developers have been waiting since late June for Google to release their API to the public. Well, today is that day. Just a few minute ago Chris Chabot, from Google+ Developer Relations, announced that the Google+ API is now available to the public."

Cool. Just in time for Google to EOL Google+

[blair1q]

Google+ didn't bring the gamechange.

It's a ghost town.

You can see Linus Torvalds and the Google Twins there, but hardly anyone else ever posts. And they don't much either. Linus' last post is 9/6, and Sergey's is 8/28, and Larry's is 8/13...

Google needed more than a convention hall. It needed to emcee the convention. Now we have an API, and maybe some people to P it, nobody to A it.

Re:Too little, too late?

[blair1q]

If you're not going to use the word "fuck" in plaintext when you're pseudonymized, then why the fuck do you care if you use your real name or not?

Re:Read only

[Animats]

It is kind of lame. All you can do is read what's on someone's page. This will make screen-scraping easier.

Interestingly, it's all JSON. XML seems to be on the way out for API interfaces.

I tried , i really did...

[who_stole_my_kidneys]

I was hoping that Google+ would be the next best thing, and pop the bubble that is FaceBook. but its not going to happen, most people that would have wanted to move, tried G+, and left sin no one was there and the people who haven't heard about G+ don't care enough to switch. So unless the new API can cook my dinner and wash my clothes and give me a hand job, there is no reason to switch since all the people i care to talk to (and allot of people I don't) are on the FB, ill just stay until it becomes myspace.

Re:I tried , i really did...

[jdgeorge]

Mmmm... Yes. Facebook is definitely the service for you're looking for. <Jedi hand wave> There is no Google+.

Re:Cool. Just in time for Google to EOL Google+

[interkin3tic]

IT LAUNCHED TWO FUCKING MONTHS AGO. You know what my facebook wall looked like two months after launch? Nothing, because I hadn't signed up for it yet. Also, the facebook wall didn't go up until 7 months after launch [facebook.com]. 10 months it had 1 million users. Two months out, google+ has 10 million users.

Anyway, I see facebook making changes in response to the competition. Not fixing all gripes with it of course, but changes are being made to the... er... "game" as it were.

(By the way, let's not start using the term "gamechange." Sounds too much like some douchebag marketing suit talking.)