Google throwing its weight behind OpenSocial
As everyone knows, Google tomorrow is announcing its “OpenSocial” social network platform APIs with participating social networks LinkedIn, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut, Ning, and more. You can find interesting perspectives on the announcement from Mark Andreessen (screenshots here) and the rest of Techmeme.
In talking to people around the valley today, most people are very intrigued by the notion of OpenSocial platforms across the web, but many questions remain:
- Google is announcing this tomorrow, but how long will it be before OpenSocial applications and social networks are in public production?
- Will OpenSocial APIs actually lead to any significantly new compelling applications?
- What about performance? OpenSocial is a JavaScript API, so many widgets on a page may want to make many HTTP requests.
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