Archive for the ‘Open Social’ Category
Monday, November 5th, 2007
I keep running up against Marc Andreessen's three kinds of platforms. It seems as though this frames pretty much everything that's happening with OpenSocial and Facebook right now. Somehow I'm not surprised.
I read O'Reilly's thoughts this morning on Marc Cuban's Facebook API post, and there was one part that ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
This is definitely the question of the week. If people aren't blogging about it, they're definitely thinking about it: what is Facebook going to do? One step further: what would I do if I were Facebook?
Josh over at Netly News did some talking with people in "Techland" last night, including ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I posted a few hours ago about how the real winners at this point are the developers. End users aren't going to see any benefit from Open Social -- or any reason to switch networks -- for a long time to come.
But one almost immediate user benefit of Open Social ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Mashable is reporting that Silicon Alley is reporting that MySpace may become a part of Google's newly announced Open Social series of APIs.
Open Social is a direct response to the common sentiment that everyone in the socnet space must huddle together to stave off eventual defeat by the space's newest ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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 ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
As expected, Google has announced a set of common APIs for creating applications that will work on multiple networks. Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle have all agreed to participate as partners with Google in this initiative.
We old timers have been through this before, back when ...
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