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OpenSocial Foundation Announces Elections for Community Directors
The OpenSocial Foundation has announced elections for its Board of Directors, the governing body that helps the non-profit organization "sustain the free and open development of OpenSocial specifications."
Thirteen candidates have been nominated to fill two "Community Director" Board seats. Among the nominees are several familiar names including Chris Messina, Krishna Sankar, and Joseph Smarr. (For more information on each of these candidates and the other 10 nominees, visit the OpenSocial Foundation.)
A Smart Social Media Play From... Coca-Cola?
Coca-Cola quietly launched one of their first social media applications last weekend, a bookmarking widget for Facebook called CokeTag. (Coke Singapore also has a Facebook application out, promoting a tie-in with UEFA EURO 2008.) CokeTag is not only a smart play from the company, but also a fairly useful app as far as profile widgets go. The app allows users to create customizable Flash bookmark widgets linking to link collections on any topic they're passionate about.
Bizzlr Does Social Network Recommendations
Many small and medium sized businesses may have an interest in maintaining a presence on social networks, but don't the time, money, or resources to do so. For them, a new service provided by a company called Bizzlr can help. For a small monthly fee, companies can use Bizzlr's solution to connect with customers on many of the major social networks.
Facebook Hacked Again
A report on BBC's technology program, Click, has exposed yet another security flaw in Facebook - one that could comprise users' privacy. This particular hack involves using a Facebook application to steal a users personal information - and the information of all their friends - without the user's knowledge.
Start Pages: The Next Social Networks
Google today made an announcement that could prove to be not only important to the evolution of OpenSocial and iGoogle, but also to the social networking sector itself. Google announced a new developer sandbox for iGoogle that includes support for their OpenSocial APIs. Essentially, Google is working toward turning their start page property into a social network, though they haven't overtly said so. Google's move makes this officially the start of a trend we're seeing in start pages to get more social, and an idea we've been pushing at RWW for the past year.
Frengo Launches Mobile Open Social Toolkit
Mobile social networking company Frengo has released a toolkit for development of Open Social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. The Open Social Mobile Toolkit supports MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and Facebook and allows developers of applications on those networks to extend them to the mobile phone. In addition to extending support for the Open Social and Facebook platforms to the mobile phone, the Frengo toolkit allows developers to monetize applications via the company's social advertising platform or via premium SMS.
Hi5 Launching OpenSocial Platform Today
Popular social networking site Hi5 is launching its implementation of the OpenSocial platform today, the first apps go live at noon PST. The company is rolling out the apps very slowly, 1% of users will be able to access them at noon, 10% by the end of the day. The first 100 approved apps (there are 53 approved for launch today) will receive 1 year of free hosting from the Joyent Accelerator (who may or may not have been dumped by Twitter as a scalability problem) and free translation from English to Spanish or vice versa.
The only apps mentioned on the company blog so far look pretty silly. OpenSocial doesn't seem to be working out like at least tech-centric users were hoping.
Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider
A month ago, ReadWriteWeb writer Marshall Kirkpatrick utilized his huge network of Twitter followers to facilitate a discussion about APIs and platforms. He shared the highlights of the conversation in a post on this blog. The discussion was one that really captured our imaginations, so today we're exploring the issue further and presenting 5 dynamics that you should consider when picking a platform.
Marshall Kirkpatrick on G4TV's 'Attack of the Show'
Yesterday evening, our own Marshall Kirkpatrick was a guest on G4TV's "Attack of the Show" television program to discuss Google's OpenSocial platform. Marshall gave his thoughts on why Google formed a foundation with Yahoo! and News Corp. (MySpace) to govern the open source project, and what that means for users and data portability. He also spoke about why Facebook has stayed away from OpenSocial so far and offered thoughts on whether or not the platform will end up succeeding. An excerpt and video is below.
More Questions Than Answers About OpenSocial
The launch of the OpenSocial Foundation yesterday was probably more about preempting lawsuits than it is about anything else, but getting Yahoo!, Google and Newscorp all in the same room raised some eyebrows. It also raises some big questions. In fact, there may be more questions on the table about OpenSocial than answers.
Is OpenSocial for real? It it going to make a big impact on the web? Before asking all of that, here's some thoughts on the nitty gritty as the platform moves forward.
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