Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Stocky explained that the number of developers is not a public statistic he could share, but he did say that across all the API’s, Google gets billions of requests per week – over a billion requests per day.
Stocky said that: “It’s been great to see that while previously there was a lot of talk about the platform wars, the platform that ended up winning was the open web. It’s been great to see the momentum build.”
I asked finally about OpenSocial and how that was going. Stocky said there’d been a tremendous response from almost all the major social networking sites such as MySpace, Yahoo, AOL, iGoogle, Bebo... and that in China, “a whole lot of the major sites in China have become part of open social”. He said that if an app developer uses the OpenSocial API, he or she has access to 300m users, which is a huge number.
At this point, I decide to stop asking Stocky questions, because it was clear to see that Google has a lot on its plate, and things are still growing enormously. There’s no end in sight, and Google has become a major web platform force in a short time.
A lot will happen between now and Google Developer Day 2009, and if you’re a developer wanting more information, visit Google’s developer site and see if any of it appeals to you. The next big web app could be yours!
David Bass
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