Google Opensocial API just doesn’t work!

UPDATE: this bug appears to be fixed now.  

I mean literally.

Sign up for a developer slot in the Orkut sandbox and create one of the sample applications. Try the Sample Example: List Friends example

I use an exact copy of the code supplied by Google but when I try to run the application on Orkut, it doesn’t work, giving the following error.
Error:

opensocial is not defined

var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();

This ‘opensocial’ object provides the actual ’social’ aspect of the Google OpenSocial API. Yet it’s not found.

Something is up here.

My guess is that Google rushed the release of this api, not caring about quality assurance, to knock the wind out of the mounting Facebook hype.

Or maybe I’m just bitter because no one from Google as admitted to developers that there is a problem/bug with their api, expecting everyone to waste their time bumping into the same obstacle again and again.

Oh yeah and the Orkut server dies every couple of minutes with some silly error about ‘bad, bad server, no brownie points for you’.

Please….

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