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eagle

Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook

Widgets want to be FREE....

OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook

OpenSocial details coming out

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

eagle wrote:
Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook

Widgets want to be FREE....

OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook

OpenSocial details coming out

I guess this means that openness and freedom is less important to Google than getting an equity share.

eagle

The Googlers have enough money for three lifetimes....

Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web

When will C9, C8, C7, 010 and visitmix open-up?

Rossj

PaoloM wrote:

eagle wrote:The Googlers have enough money for three lifetimes....

Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web

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Sigh. More fluff from the one hit wonder... I'm eagerly waiting until his VC capital runs out, then he may be back to do some real work.

You talking about Eagle?

PaoloM wrote:

eagle wrote:When will C9, C8, C7, 010 and visitmix open-up?

Open up how? None of those sites is acting as a social network application platform... do you want to write Channel9 apps?

Well maybe then I might be able to post from my browser of choice instead of what the textbox supports (or doesn't as the case may be).

eagle

I think he's talking about my old friend Marc Andreessen, but he has lot's of his own money invested.

Ning is cool, though it may never be #1 there are many people using it.

This certainly was the subtext of the Web 2.0 Summit, it's a Widgets Web now and Facebook is just an incubator.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

eagle wrote:
The Googlers have enough money for three lifetimes....

Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web

<microsoft_hat mode="off">

Sigh. More fluff from the one hit wonder boy... I'm eagerly waiting until his VC capital runs out, then he may be back to do some real work.

eagle wrote:
When will C9, C8, C7, 010 and visitmix open-up?

Open up how? None of those sites is acting as a social network application platform... do you want to write Channel9 apps?

Yes, it's early and I didn't have my coffee yet Smiley

Dharma Punk

eagle wrote:
I think he's talking about my old friend Marc Andreessen, but he has lot's of his own money invested.

Ning is cool, though it may never be #1 there are many people using it.

This certainly was the subtext of the Web 2.0 Summit, it's a Widgets Web now and Facebook is just an incubator.

I thought Web 2.0 was about rich user interfaces and social interaction. While widgets can certainly look good and have snappy response, where is the community in/behind them?

esoteric
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I like it. I'm quite happy with Linked In, except it being only for professional social networking. Facebook, not so much. Tons of app's. Pretty low configurability. Boring fixed looks. Bring the services. Smiley

Rossj

I'm on both LinkedIn (please add me) and Facebook, and whilst I think FB can be fun it gets a little inane after a little while. Not sure what I can expect from LinkedIn apps - but I can't wait to find out Smiley

eagle

OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks:

Profile Information (user data)
Friends Information (social graph)
Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)

The Kids at MySpace are joining the party!

Questions about OpenSocial

eagle

The web is better when it's social

Google get's it, the web is about people.

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.

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

eagle wrote:
The web is better when it's social

Google get's it, the web is about people.

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.

Eagle,
S&^t man, will you please stop talking. It's not like you know what you're saying anyways.

eagle

You should have looked at the video Cyberstupid.

This is a great move by ex-Microsoft DPE Vic Gundotra, but as yet no reaction from his old Team....