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Opensocial--Google is that the best you can do?
Well over a year ago, I attended a panel session featuring Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn),
Shawn Gold (MySpace)
and Robin Harper (Secondlife).
A man in the audience asked when we'd be able to have single sign on and one ID to carry across all social networks. the panelists looked at one another as if to say, "Great idea, but..." And then Zuckerberg, the youngest on the panel said, "We live in a capitalistic society. It would be nice, but it's not gonna happen anytime soon."
Well, we're one step closer to making it happen, with or without Facebook's participation.
Thursday Google announced OpenSocial. The folks I know who were invited to participate got news of the announcement only days before it went live...and we can tell based on the quality of the widgets available in the sandbox.
The options were, "Hug a friend" or "Kitty picture of the day." You'd think Google's bevy of developers would want to showcase their widgets in the sandbox, and Google would have pushed to offer at least 20, interesting and functional widgets before going live.
That aside, it seems this is the first push for open standards as it relates to Web 2.0 technologies. A great place to start and I'm excited to see what develops.
Shawn Gold (MySpace)
and Robin Harper (Secondlife).
A man in the audience asked when we'd be able to have single sign on and one ID to carry across all social networks. the panelists looked at one another as if to say, "Great idea, but..." And then Zuckerberg, the youngest on the panel said, "We live in a capitalistic society. It would be nice, but it's not gonna happen anytime soon."
Well, we're one step closer to making it happen, with or without Facebook's participation.
Thursday Google announced OpenSocial. The folks I know who were invited to participate got news of the announcement only days before it went live...and we can tell based on the quality of the widgets available in the sandbox.
The options were, "Hug a friend" or "Kitty picture of the day." You'd think Google's bevy of developers would want to showcase their widgets in the sandbox, and Google would have pushed to offer at least 20, interesting and functional widgets before going live.
That aside, it seems this is the first push for open standards as it relates to Web 2.0 technologies. A great place to start and I'm excited to see what develops.
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