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."

Read only

[Trillan]

I can't wait to see all the interesting ideas developers have for using this read only API.

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

[Anonymous Coward]

Just because they don't post to you doesn't mean they don't post. I have hundreds of posts, but each one of them is private so my public profile looks empty. I don't know anyone who makes public posts. That's kind of the entire point, which you appear to have missed.

G+ games

[jDeepbeep]

Games on G+ can also reward you for spamming/recruiting your friends. Angry Birds on G+ for example will keep levels locked until you and your friends have a cumulative total of stars to unlock them, so naturally you want to get more people playing. Another game lets you ask for hearts to continue gameplay and equally you can donate hearts. The difference here though is people in your circles will not see all this game stuff unless they are also in their games stream.

JSON

[jDeepbeep]

Not to mention, the spec for JSON fits on one side of a business card [lessthandot.com], readably.