Joyent

Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social

MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – March 13, 2008: Expands Social Networking partnerships by providing free Accelerators optimized for the Open Social platform.

Joyent will be on hand for the launch of the open-source development platform from hi5, a leading international social network, for the industry’s first-ever, bi-national hackathon on Saturday, March 15th. The day-long hi5 hackathon will bring together over 200 commercial, independent and student developers, who will code new hi5 applications, socialize and share their work from two locations in the U.S. and Mexico: the Google Campus in Mountain View, California; and the Campus Estado de Mexico of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Joyent will be joined by representatives of hi5, Google, Globant, and ITESM.

By supporting OpenSocial, a simple and practical set of open technologies, hi5 and Joyent encourage developers to build innovative applications on frictionless, on-demand infrastructure. For the first 100 new apps that are approved for the hi5 Platform launch, the associated developers will win one year of scalable, on-demand architecture on a Joyent Accelerator™. Additionally, hi5 will provide Spanish or English translation for these apps as well. For detailed information on the hi5 Developer Program, please visit their website.

How to Learn More Detailed information for developers is available. hi5 will announce and begin rolling out new applications for its users on March 31st. Developers seeking to have their applications included at launch should immediately register with hi5, review hi5’s Application Guidelines and have their feature-complete qualifying application in the hi5 sandbox by Friday, March 28.

More information about OpenSocial is available at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial.