Engage.com, the popular online destination for social networking and traditional online dating has announced support for the Google’s (News - Alert) recently launched OpenSocial APIs.

 

Google’s OpenSocial APIs make building and hosting social applications on websites a breeze and in the process enhance the social networking experience for users. The OpenSocial programming model will revolutionize the way people socialize on the Internet by bringing more and more social features to websites, web applications, and social networks

 

According to Engage, the company shares the same underlying concept with OpenSocial. Engage believes that quite like itself, OpenSocial also supports casual personal interaction among users and that dating is a natural outcome.

 

Engage also believes that OpenSocial is the perfect way for the company to build partnerships with like-minded companies in the Web 2.0 space

 

 "We're committed to delivering the best and most enjoyable dating and socializing features to our members, and we realize that some of those features will be developed externally," said Suneet Wadhwa, CEO of Engage. "OpenSocial will help Engage members customize a social dating experience with features that are best of the Web, fun to use, personally comfortable and romantically rewarding." Engage is currently building out an OpenSocial developer sandbox and expects to actively participate in the community as it evolves.

 

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