Awaiting OpenSocial
November 1st, 2007There 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.
The server side code is available only to the members of the open social alliance…
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.