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EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial, Adobe: In this week's EIC squared podcast we cover the Comcast-BitTorrent partnership and what it means--and doesn't mean. Dan notes that there are a lot of loose ends to tie up before we declare these two P2P bosom buddies. Meanwhile, I look at Oracle's earnings and what its...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Google OpenSocial, Dan, Podcasts, Taxes, Free Trade, Business Structures, Internet, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-27
OpenSocial is now neutral: What's the business hook here?: OpenSocial is now neutral: What's the business hook here?Business hook is obvious...Here is the value... companies love to have information on consumers... existing and prospective... consumers love to consume stuff... free stuff and stuff they pay for... services and goods... give them a little free service and collect a lot...; Tags: Google OpenSocial; Discussion threads 2008-03-26
OpenSocial is now neutral: What's the business hook here?: OpenSocial is no longer just a Google standard. Microsoft catches social networking religion. And most folks are wondering where Facebook will land in this mess. The larger question: Is there a business hook here somewhere? Yup, I hear the crickets too. Social networking remains...; Tags: Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-26
More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial: More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocialNice to see all of the open moves by Yahoo. They seem to have decided thatbeing more open is the only thing that can save them from Microsoft. Time will tell if it works or not . . . .Are you kidding?Microsoft...; Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial; Discussion threads 2008-03-25
Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation formed as Yahoo jumps onboard: Yahoo today announced their support for OpenSocial, the Google-led standard for developing applications that work across supporting social networks (e.g. OpenGadget). Except, technically at least, OpenSocial isn't the sole property of Google anymore, following the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, whose custodiands MySpace, Google (and Yahoo)...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-03-25

More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial: On the same day Microsoft announced new interoperability deals with five social-networking sites, Yahoo announced it has joined the Google-backed OpenSocial social-networking intiative. Yahoo announced on March 25 that not only had it joined the OpenSocial group, but that -- along with MySpace and Google -- Yahoo...; Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Strategy, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Yahoo eyes OpenSocial; When will Facebook join?: Yahoo eyes OpenSocial; When will Facebook join?well doneIt will promote I.T bussiness.Don't see Facebook fans caringGranted this is a tech forum but Facebook fans are not inclined to care how the sausage is made - that is, using open or closed protocols.I'm a facebook fan because it provides a better...; Tags: Social networking, Yahoo! Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial; Discussion threads 2008-03-12
Yahoo eyes OpenSocial; When will Facebook join?: Yahoo may join Google's OpenSocial, a standards effort to allow social networks to communicate and share data. If Yahoo joins OpenSocial the set of standards would have a critical mass of big players lined up behind it. According to Miguel Helft in the New York Times' Bits...; Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-12
Progress report on the OpenSocial Web: Google is releasing applications built on the Open Social API running on Orkut at the end of this month, and is holding "hackathons" February 7-8 and February 14-15 at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for OpenSocial developers. In addition, MySpace unveiled its Developer Platform today, which uses...; Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google OpenSocial, API, Fact, MySpace, Social Graph API, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-06
OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets": OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"Excellent analysisGreat analysis Steve! I am giving a talk at Toronto's FacebookCamp on OpenSocial vs. Facebook, so this will definitely help. As you suggested, Google announced their platform too early. But in a way, it was also an appropriate time to release considering that Friendster, Hi5,...; Tags: Google OpenSocial, Facebook, Marc Canter; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets": As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...; Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-01-31
Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform: In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their...; Tags: Facebook, Newsfeed, Google OpenSocial, Blog, Six Apart Ltd., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-30
Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop: Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to dropOpenGadgets just fineI still find all of the attacks on OpenSocial to be naive. Did anyone ever really think each company would open up it's social graph? Apparently so, but I certainly didn't. You really thought Google had the power to...; Tags: Scripting languages, Google Gadget, Google OpenSocial, Facebook, social networking, OpenGadgets, network, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-01-28
Google/OpenSocial's engineering director unplugged: ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind interviews Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering, David Glazer, at Bebo's launch event in San Francisco. In this video, Glazer talks about how the interoperability between Bebo and FaceBook could demonstrate why a standard like OpenSocial makes sense. He also describes "Shindig," the first open-source implementation of...; Tags: Bebo, Google OpenSocial, Director, Google/OpenSocial, Open Source, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Internet; Videos 2007-12-13
Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live': While at Bebo's launch event yesterday in San Francisco, I had a chance to catch up with David Glazer, the director of engineering at Google who is overseeing the evolution of the OpenSocial framework that the company announced on November 1, 2007. You can see the interview in the...; Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Google/OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-13
Facebook outmaneuvers Google; Bebo launches FB-compatible platform: When Google announced "OpenSocial", a set of three common APIs designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook, I described it as a 'combine and conquer strategy'. [OpenSocial] embraces the "small pieces, loosely joined" philosophy of the web, and in doing so, should help to...; Tags: Bebo, Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Channel Management, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2007-12-13
Bebo CEO Michael Birch Unplugged: Facebook apps now run on Bebo, OpenSocial support next: I'm in San Francisco this week making the rounds and, as luck would have it (this was not part of our original plan), Bebo.com was running a launch event while we happened to be here in the city. The event took place at the Metreon right in the heart...; Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Facebook responds to OpenSocial--opens its platform architecture: Facebook responds to OpenSocial--opens its platform architectureI dunno. If you can hit everybody but Facebook with one API, there will bemore applications for the others. Also, there will be more that work across sites with the others. Facebook may be forced to cave in and support OpenSocial eventually, but, as...; Tags: Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-12
Facebook responds to OpenSocial--opens its platform architecture: Facebook has a response to Google's OpenSocial APIs, which will let developers build applications that tap into multiple social networks without modification, a kind of write-once, run-anywhere scenario when the APIs are supported. Today, Facebook announced that it will license the Facebook Platform methods and tags to other platforms. ...; Tags: Facebook, Google OpenSocial, API, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Google OpenSocial APIs not ready for the dance: Google OpenSocial APIs not ready for the danceThat's okIt's just the announcement of something new that whips investors into a frenzy (and that's what counts most.) Google learned that art a long time ago. They'd announce an early beta service that offered virtually zero chance for any meaningful...; Tags: API, Google OpenSocial API, Google OpenSocial, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-07