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The hi5 Platform Guidelines
http://www.hi5networks.com/platform/wiki/AppGuidelines

hi5 is looking to create high quality and culturally relevant applications for the hi5 OpenSocial platform. Given hi5's large international user base, we have given special consideration to support internationalization and local application developers. We want to help developers understand how to create innovative applications that help our user interact with their friends and the rest of the hi5 community, without creating an annoying user experience and without violating their privacy.

We have developed the following guidelines that all applications must follow, in order to achieve this balance. Please take a moment to review these guidelines. If a violation is detected, we'll enforce the measures listed here.

Note that hi5 reserves the right to change these guidelines without advance notice; we will make our best efforts to notify developers ahead of time if changes in the guidelines cause their applications to fail compliance. hi5's interpretation of these guidelines will be treated as final.

The Basic Stuff

• Respect our users’ privacy: If your application gathers personal data like e-mail, mobile phone numbers etc., you must accord the same privacy protections to this data as hi5 offers via its website.
• Follow hi5's developers Terms Of Service - NO illegal content, NO nudity, NO hate speech. hi5 reserves the right to disable an application that contains offensive content of any kind without prior notice. We will make our best efforts to contact developers to ensure compliance with our safety and privacy guidelines.

App Description

• Developers should fill out summary and description in ModulePrefs. The Description appears on the Preview page and on Application Invites. The Summary appears in any list format (My Applications, Applications Home, Application Gallery). The Summary should be <100 characters and the Description should be <500 characters.

Use Of Viral Channels

• DO NOT send excessive notifications: Notifications should be sent only when users take an action on an application. In particular:
  • DO NOT send notifications after the user has logged out.
  • DO NOT generate a notification if the user has taken no action other than a page view on the application.
  • DO NOT re-send notification requests repeatedly. If you notice a high degree of failures, please notify us immediately, via the Help email list or by getting in touch with our developers on our IRC channel.
• NO forced invites: Users cannot be forced to invite friends in order to access all application functionality. Specifically,
  • DO NOT auto select all friends by default on a page that contains a form with all or some of the viewer's friends.
• DO NOT use misleading advertisements: The messages generated by your application should reflect its usage correctly. For example, if a user has not installed an application, you cannot send a message that appears to be on that user's behalf; or, your messages cannot claim that users have taken actions on the app that in fact they haven't; or, your messages cannot omit a sender name because all notifications have to come from an actual installation of your application.
• NO request calls are allowed on profile pages: These attempts will be blocked by the platform.

Maintain hi5’s look and feel

• All views must function correctly.
• Applications must specify a favicon URL and a thumbnail image URL in ModulePrefs (Read this blog post for more information.) DO NOT use the .ico format as it breaks in IE6. Neither image should use animation.
• The profile module height must be constrained to no more than about 800 pixels. This is a recommended maximum size --- gross violations will trigger punitive measures.
• Applications cannot generate pop-ups unless it is for alerting a user. For example, a pop up could be used to confirm an non-revertable delete action, or for showing some data that the user requests.
• Applications must support profile skins functionality. See this Sample Application page for more information on how to do that.
• NO auto play of audio: Apps that have auto play audio will be rejected.