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.

Comments

Re:How many of those have you heard of?

[owlnation]

TO dismiss it as one or two and the rest you've never heard seems a tad petulant.

How ridiculous and arrogant. How can you accuse the parent of such things when most probably he's not in the target market group for these sites? How dare you really? I read a lot of tech stuff, am on Slashdot every single day, this is the first I've ever heard of Tianji, or LinkedIn, I've vaguely head of some of the others but never visited their sites, nor am I entirely sure of what they do. I have heard of MySpace. I have heard of Livejournal and Friendster but was under the impression that both were dying a death. I have heard of Salesforce.com but I would be astonished if anyone outside of a major corporation has -- this is a very specialized business service.

No, you should direct your ire towards the marketing dept of some of these websites -- they have totally failed to get any message across. Perhaps Google is really doing them a huge favor with this new service.

Re:Now Google???

[MadnessASAP]

And you're an idiot, the low ID means just as little to me as a high ID does so you can say whatever you want about me being jealous but in the end you're just exposing your own ignorance to me.