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Google's OpenSocial Platform Releases
shadowmage13 writes "Google just announced that starting tonight, developers can start writing applications using the social API for Orkut, MySpace, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial. Will Facebook give in?" There is quite a bit of analysis of this announcement available in yesterday's discussion.
Didn't Google help define the idea of 2.0? Gmail (which was much more than any other webmail when it launched), Ajax, Google Documents, ....
Sure, Google released documentation for how to write these kinds of apps, but they have yet to release any documentation for sites looking to implement the APIs. This kinda limits its proliferation. I work for a fairly large social network, and thus far we have not been able to even get started on writing an implementation OpenSocial yet.
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I'm not sure which two you mean? Myspace - 100 million accounts Livejournal - 14 million accounts Orkut - 67 million accounts Firendster - 50 million accounts LinkedIn - 15 million accounts Salesforce.com - 1 million subscribers Tianji - 700,000 members For context, Wikipedia reports that Facebook has 42 million accounts as of October 2007. Now there's certainly some variation, and probably lots of duplication amongst accounts, but seriously, these are big sites, with huge traffic figures. TO dismiss it as one or two and the rest you've never heard seems a tad petulant.
Yes. But they aren't currently number one. And they most certainly won't be after the others network together. But thanks for playing anyway...
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It's Cloberin' Time!
Yours truly,
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You're right :) It was actually just a typo-- i actually meant to say "Google's OpenSocial Platform Released"
Six Apart is the parent company of LiveJournal, just like Google is the parent company of Orkut and News Corp. is the parent company of MySpace. Now, whether Six Apart's participation means LiveJournal participation . . .
I agree. Don't post that fucking garbage without some kind of warning. I actually started watching it with my wife, thinking it would be something funny, or at least girl-on-girl action. But no. It was some chick shitting in a cup.
Get a fucking life.
In the future, you could use this as a painful lesson that sometimes Google is a great source of information on the random link posted by an unknown person. I speak from experience as one who has been burned in a similar manner.
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A Google search for the domain name reveals a warning that even I won't ignore.
Digg - Funny reaction to 2Girls1Cup
Warning: DO NOT visit 2girls1cup.com to see what they are watching. Seriously. Don't. Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen.
I first heard about this yesterday, and went "Oh cool, so Google's finally implementing OpenID. Maybe they'll do for that what they did for Jabber."
You see, Google Talk is a Jabber IM service. That means that while the Google Talk client itself probably only works with Google, you can, in fact, talk to anyone, on any domain, on any Jabber server, from your Google Talk account, and vice versa. It's IM, but with the decentralization, flexibility, and possibility of competition that you find in email.
Well, OpenID is like that, but for authentication and profiles. I can sign up for an OpenID anywhere, and it will work anywhere that supports OpenID. It means that any site that would otherwise require free registration can simply require an OpenID. It's like single sign on, but your authentication server can be anywhere, and can be tied to an account... and you can use any authentication method, really. Most people would use usernames/passwords, I'd probably use a PGP key or something.
Anyway...
It's not OpenID.
That's fine, the OpenID "standards" are a mess, but...
It's not even a replacement for OpenID. If anything, it's a replacement for Passport, but you have a Google account instead of an MSN account. Ok, yes, I can access my social networking data from any random website, as part of a web app -- but what if I don't want to be on Orkut?
In other words...
Why have they replaced a few tiny walled gardens (MySpace, Facebook) with a gated community? Why not just open it up, especially if you're going to pretend it's "open"?
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