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OpenFeint 2.0 brings social discovery to the iPhone
The Aurora Feint folks are at WWDC with the rest of the Mac development world this week, and while out there, not only are they having a party, but they sent out an announcement: OpenFeint 2.0 is out now, and it has some "social discovery" features now included. Their open platform already supported doing things like leaderboards and profiles from directly within iPhone applications and games, but now the new release will also allow users to bring their friends lists in from Facebook and Twitter, update profile pictures of themselves, and both find their friends and figure out what they're playing. The system is free to integrate into iPhone apps and games, and there's a user-based model that costs more at higher levels.OpenFeint isn't the only system attempting to do something like this (be a sort of Xbox Live for iPhone games), but they are certainly the biggest, with more developers jumping into their boat every day. And as is the way with social networks, sometimes being the biggest is just as good as being the best. Look for their features in an iPhone game near you.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
andy said 12:25PM on 6-11-2009
weren't these the guys who leaked everyone's personal information before Apple pulled their app?
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BigB said 2:32PM on 6-11-2009
Not exactly, I think it was they were grabbing your address book and matching up emails if other peoples so you could play together in the firest Aurora Feint game.
Apple didnt have a problem with it except for the way the info was being transmitted in the clear. Players thought it was a privacy breech.
So AF made the friend matching opt in and encrypted the transfers.
I think thats all accurate anyway.
Ian Aberle said 5:32PM on 6-11-2009
I was really hoping to see Danielle Cassley profiled in the iPhone celebration video they were showing at WWDC.
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Ian Aberle said 5:34PM on 6-11-2009
Of course, seeing the comment above, I guess I could understand why Apple would not want to put the spotlight on her.
Aron Allen said 6:38AM on 6-12-2009
Why is there all this hype about OpenFient, they have a compettitor with a much better product, it is called AGON online, and it runs on google app engine, and it is free for developers to implement.
http://developer.agon-online.com/
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