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OpenSocial
by noteworthy at 2:38 pm EDT, Nov 3, 2007

The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.

It was only a few months ago that I wrote:

Now is the time for all good men to quit their silos and adopt an open standard.

FC has a roundup; Steven Johnson says:

What a brilliant move by Google. (I suppose as a launch partner, I'm biased, but still: what a brilliant move.) That $15 billion Facebook valuation got a lot of abuse over the past few weeks, but in a way I thought it made sense. Obviously, there was risk involved, but if you thought that Facebook had a reasonable shot at becoming "the social operating system of the Web", then it was probably worth making the bet -- particularly given that Microsoft had other reasons to invest. A company that runs the web's "social operating system" could easily be worth $50B or $100B. But that seems entirely impossible now, just a few days later, thanks to OpenSocial.

Not everyone is so sanguine:

“Open Social” sounds a lot like an “Open Marriage” – on the surface some may think this sounds fun but after thinking about it for a minute you quickly realize it’s a bad idea.

NYT observes:

Developers may not see the advantage to writing programs that run across such remarkably different networks.

But Eric Schmidt is reassuring:

"If you are of a certain age, you sort of dismiss this as college kids or teenagers. But it is very real."


 
RE: OpenSocial
by Decius at 3:18 pm EDT, Nov 3, 2007

If the same people show up in every social networking website, doesn't that defeat the individual value of each community? Do you really want to "import" your linkedin connections to facebook? Sometimes its useful to maintain different sets of associations in different contexts.


 
 
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