{"id":1649,"date":"2013-06-27T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2013-06-27T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:49:24","slug":"social-api-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2013\/06\/27\/social-api-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Social API for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox Beta is taking the next step in making the Firefox Social API available to all Web developers.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Mozilla partnered with Facebook to develop and introduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/03\/firefox-gets-social-w-facebook\/\">Social API<\/a>. Earlier this year, we continued to refine the feature and extended that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/stay-social-with-firefox\/\">support to additional providers<\/a>. 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