Internet giant, Google has finally released the first set of public data APIs of its recently launched social platform, Google+ for developers.

The release will allow third party developers to begin working with the social network platform and planning applications for the growing number of users on the site. However, the first batch will allow access to only public data from user profiles in a read-only manner.

Google ha also limited applications call to a "courtesy usage quota" as of now. The company is aiming to build a strong and more sophisticated developer platform and the release is seen as a first step by the company.

"For all of you developers who have been asking for a Google+ API, this is the start. Experiment with it. Build apps on it. Give us your feedback and ideas," wrote Chris Chabot, from the Google+ Developer Relations team in a blog update.

Google is delaying he adoption of the OpenSocial APIs for Google+. The OpenSocial standard was originally developed in 2007 and Google was proposing the use of the standard as a better alternative to proprietary tools for specific platforms.

The OpenSocial technology has already been adopted by several sites and it is managed by nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation. Google has indicated that Google+ platform doesn't support the OpenSocial APIs at this time. It only said that it is using a lot of technology which was developed as par to of OpenSocial.