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Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social

Joyent will be providing free Accelerators, optimized for Open Social at this coming Saturday’s (March 15th) bi-national hack-a-thon. 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). Joining the developers will be representatives of hi5, Google, Globant, ITESM, and Joyent.

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.

Working with hi5 introduces developers to millions of users they are able to reach more easily with the OpenSocial APIs. Working with Joyent allows developers to reach hi5 scale with little worry.

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.

We’re very excited to be working with hi5 and Google on this launch. If you’re near either location, please come down and hack(-a-thon).