The Impact of OpenSocial
While I may end up eating my words for weeks to come, whether or not platforms will be ready for launch tomorrow, one thing is for sure: OpenSocial has arrived to counter the Facebook platform. The new APIs being provided by Google will (as Mike Arrington pointed out) enable developers to access profile information, friends information and activities. These are all things currently provided on the Facebook platform. While user portability across networks is not supported by this, each application will have access to data that enables them to be unique to the user.
The “applications” being developed for OpenSocial sound much more like widgets that reside within containers rather than robust applications.
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