Orkut to Throw Poop at Linkedin? Implications of Open Social
The potentially game changing news about Google’s Open Social has everyone talking and asking great questions.
What I want to know is, if I’m on Orkut and I’m using an app that lets me throw poop at my friends, will I be able to throw poop at people on Linkedin?
Different social networks have different cultures. Linkedin is all about business. Orkut lets you create a business profile and look for dates at the same time. Will users of applications that are running in different “containers” — that is on different social networks — be able to connect with one another cross-platform?
More important, will the more professional social networks limit the poo-flinging applications that give Kara Swisher such fits?
The barrier between personal/inane and professional is getting thinner by the day. How will OpenSocial and its partner containers react to that? How will they let users control their information?
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[...] So far, a lot of the excitement around OpenSocial has sounded like developers excited to build Facebook-like applications for other networks. Yes, I know there are some significant differences, especially when you start talking about sharing data across networks. [...]
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