There seems to be a lot of attention being paid to Google’s answer to the Facebook Platform called OpenSocial. I heard about it on Pmarca’s blog, but there are a lot of details here, here, here and here.
I think this attention is truly deserved, because it really opens up the field for innovative widgets/apps which run on these platforms. The major Facebook Platform app developers are also participating, which portends well for the adoption. Stay tuned for more observations, as I feel this is an exciting new opportunity where there will be a lot of action in the future.
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1 Its not open !!! // Nov 18, 2007 at 4:52 pm
The server side code is available only to the members of the open social alliance…
2 Vamsee // Nov 30, 2007 at 7:00 am
Well… it is like asking Facebook to provide access to it’s Platform code. Of course it is going to be closed - it is after all, Google’s code. It is intended to be an open API, nothing more. What provides those features is not really important, just that we can use them.
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