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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

Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine

Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make it more palatable for users rather than advertisers. It still fell short of the total opt-in approach that...

Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Google OpenSocial API, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Google's OpenSocial APIs pick up steam--MySpace and Bebo

Google's OpenSocial APIs pick up steam--MySpace and BeboOpen social wll be a boonCoincidently today Pramati Technologies also announced the availability of Web122 (http://www.pramati.com/web122), a project I have been working on and during this project I realized how difficult it was to get a hold of user's and his social network's...

Tags: Google OpenSocial API, API, MySpace, Google OpenSocial, Bebo, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-01

Additional Resources

Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud

On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Facebook to open source its developer platform?

While it's not yet official, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to open source its Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers can build applications for the social networking site. In a direct response to Google's 'combine and conquer strategy' with Open Social, Facebook will turn...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA

The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Is Facebook a PaaS contender?

Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-11

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

First MySpace OpenSocial apps unveiled with very little fanfare

As promised, MySpace users can now get their hands on the first fruits of the social network's official Developer Platform -- the means by which outside developers can create official applications that integrate with the site. Having surprised us back in November by announcing that MySpace would...

Tags: MySpace, Social Networking, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-14

News to know: IE 8; Big storage; Gnome 2.2; Apple; Acer; Tech lobbying

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Will IE 8 break the Web? Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable' Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Yahoo! Inc., Storage, GNOME, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Channel Management, Virtualization, Internet, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-13

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

Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections

Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Web, Category, API, Site, Friend, People Connection, Social Graph API, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-01

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

Netvibes add a social dimension to its home base

Netvibes rolled out the latest closed beta version of its personalized portal, adding the social networking features common to the field, such as friends, status updates and profiles. Content aggregated on a users page can be shared, recommended and discussed with friends and followers a la Facebook, MySpace and Twitter....

Tags: Network, Netvibes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-22

The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007

Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-12-27

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 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

News to know: LinkedIn revamp; Can enterprise software be sexy?; Apple; R.I.P. Marc Orchant

Notable headlines: Rest in Peace Marc Orchant.  Techmeme. I'd like to share with you the two life lessons Marc Orchant taught me. We will all miss Marc. LinkedIn revamps interface, opens API. On Sunday a big debate of enterprise software broke...

Tags: LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Google OpenSocial APIs not ready for the dance

On November 1, Google laid out the plan for OpenSocial APIs, which will allow applications to tap into the "graphs" of different social networks (Orkut, Ning, MySpace, etc.) without modification, reaching about 200 million users. Facebook hasn't endorsed the APIs, but apparently there is no big hurry. The reference implementation...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, API, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-07