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Comment of the Day: Despite Concerns, OpenSocial Foundation a Positive Move
The big news today was the announcement of the OpenSocial Foundation, a joint effort by Google, Yahoo! and MySpace's Newscorp. As we reported earlier today, the creation of an open, non-profit organization will assuage concerns about whether Google is exercising leadership or control with OpenSocial.
But there are other concerns. In the press call, which you can listen to on ReadWriteTalk, our own Marshall Kirkpatrick asked whether the foundation will splinter OpenSocial and Microsoft?
Liveblogging OpenSocial Foundation Call, With Commentary
We'll be liveblogging the press call for the OpenSocial Foundation, a joint announcement by Google, Yahoo! and MySpace's Newscorp that we covered earlier today. It starts in just a few minutes and we're being joined by two excellent guest commentators, tech analyst Steve Gillmor and OpenID Foundation chair Scott Kveton.
See below and refresh at will to keep up with the details announced in the call and the quick thoughts on it from our guests. Please add your own thoughts in comments, of course. Update: It was a quick call and is now over. In addition to our notes and commentary below, see our previous detailed coverage of the announcement. I thought the most important part of today's call was the discussion about splintering the OpenSocial standard.
Google, Yahoo!, News Corp. Team Up on OpenSocial
Google, Yahoo!, and News Corp., parent of the web's largest social network MySpace, announced today that they had teamed up to form the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation. The foundation has the stated goal "to ensure the sustainable and open development of the OpenSocial initiative and related intellectual property." According to the three companies, it will work to uphold the founding principles of the OpenSocial project: public community involvement, specifications released under the Creative Commons, and the continued creation of the Shindig open source reference implementation.
Social Apps Set Free: Ringside Networks to Port Facebook Apps to Web
Veteran Open Source businessman Bob Bickel will launch his new company Ringside Networks at the Open Source Business Conference tomorrow and he's set his sites high. Ringside will let developers easily port Facebook apps to any other website and it will integrate company websites with social graph and communication features back at Facebook.
OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on MySpace
If you've been wondering how the OpenSocial platform will look in MySpace, its biggest implementation, today's the day you can take a first look. Right on schedule the first batch of apps go live today, one month after the platform was opened to all developers democratically.
There's a Platform smarts arms-race underway between MySpace and Facebook, each implementing smarter and smarter policies on a regular basis. MySpace, and thus OpenSocial, could produce some dazzling applications.
Graphing Social Patterns Recap
O'Reilly's
Graphing Social
Patterns conference, which was held this week in San Diego, brought together key people who are shaping the newly
born social platforms industry; platform providers, app makers, investors,
advertising networks, etc. Our own
Sean Ammirati was one of the speakers and has
already covered some of the most
important bits from the conference, including
Charlene Li's keynote. In this post, we'll quickly recap and highlight some of the important announcements and important
data that we were able to extract. We also have a short interview with RockYou! founder and CTO
Jia
Shen.
10 Social Apps Demo at GSP West
Tonight at the Graphing Social Patterns, 10 social applications gave demonstrations for the GSP West AppNite. The first six applications were Facebook Apps and the last four were Open Social applications.
APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros and Cons
Should your company offer an API for outside developers to build on? Should you engage in one of the fast growing developer platforms or with another company's API? There's a world of options opening up to leverage cross-site functionality and data exchange, but there are also some serious questions to ask about this emerging paradigm. [img: Flickr Mashups by David Wilkinson]
We discussed some of the common concerns about platforms and APIs with a circle of industry experts, executives and engineers last week and thought we'd share that discussion with you.
Comment of the Day: OpenSocial is a "Social Cloud" For Developers, Not Users
Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks' "Social Cloud" theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Amazon WishList Widget. theharmony guy argued that both OpenSocial and Facebook are "mainly creating a cloud for developers, not users." He explains more:
Google's Kevin Marks Introduces "The Social Cloud"
Interesting video presentation from Kevin Marks, Google's main evangelist for the OpenSocial project. Marks explains more about the theory behind OpenSocial, in what he calls "the social cloud". This seems to be a variation of the Social Graph concept, which Alex Iskold analyzed for ReadWriteWeb last September. See also Sarah Perez's post today on a new search engine called Delver, which "leverages the social graph to map out a user's social connections."
We're seeing more and more products that utilize the social graph, and so Marks' explanation is a useful primer on the concepts behind them.
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