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I get the feeling that Google has a new policy to NOT support IE9/8/7, like with their Chrome experiments ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2812503 ).

Check the BrowserLab results: http://i.imgur.com/S6dQP.png

I would say that there are two options:

* They don't test their site in IE9 (nor 8/7/6) or they don't know/care.

* They are actively doing this..

And I cannot believe the first..

UPDATE: See grandchild.

1) http://developers.google.com/ is an internal server error.

2) I don't trust BrowserLab as not a single one of the browsers showed me https://developers.google.com/+/

1) I cannot verify that, all my tests are responding with a HTTP status 200.

2) Well of course I notices it with my IE9 first, but I thought that BrowserLab was a nicer way to show the results. Can you verify my findings with a IE-browser?

BTW I don't see any BrowserLab non-IE problems with that https+ url: http://i.imgur.com/fOeqZ.png

Update:

1) Seems / only has an internal error when authenticated. Otherwise it works fine.

2) I don't have an IE browser handy but BrowserLab started working fine with all the non IE browsers so it Looks like the site is having issues with IE.

I expect it is just a temporary issue though as there have been a number of other bugs that Google has been working through with the launch.

I will give a HUGE HUG to the first person to let me pull RSS feeds or a Twitter stream into G+.

(and I give great hugs)

Your hug will have to wait because this API is read only.

More info here: https://plus.google.com/117377434815709898403/posts/53bL7RAh...

I can actually see a good argument for the API remaining read-only so that Google+ emphasises original content and doesn't just end up as a ghost-town full of content syndicated in from elsewhere and sending people off to another site to join in the real conversation.

Yeah good point.

Surely this will be unavoidable for Google - they'll need to open up write access for third party apps, and they'll be wanting those for sure.

It'd be fine by me if Google didn't open up API write access, or if they did such messages were banished to another tab, like the Games section.

You can already do this with the Buzz tab.

Then the majority will not use it, because they will not want to abandon the old site entirely.

If you use Chrome, you can try this out: http://sgplus.me/

It's just the opposite but you may find it interesting:

http://plusfeed.frosas.net/

Easily done with a Chrome extension, I think...

Wait, so it's not an OpenSocial container?

Opensocial is dead right? Myspace was the biggest user for it when it came out, it's dead now. LinkedIn signed up and has moved away from it.

OpenSocial 2.0 was just released last month. http://blog.opensocial.org/2011/08/announcing-release-of-ope...

OS may not be as popular but it is still in use.

Has anyone gotten the people demo to work? I can't seem to get by own data, even after switching to private access. I get a 403 on everything.

I believe it says that it is public-only data for now.

I think their own developer console is being rate limited by the API call limitations or something. I can get my own data out of their APIs after signing up for my own API key and using it. The API is really limited right now though... there's very little you can do with it.

There was an issue with the console that is now fixed. It didn't work for me initially either.

That's odd. I notice the "People" API has a field for "middle name", but I can't find such a field on my G+ profile page.

Google+ is using the Portable Contacts standard. http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html#name_element

I was wondering when an official public API would be ready. It should be interesting to see what people come up with.

if OpenSocial on Orkut was any indicator... this api spec will change so often the docs will never be up to date.

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