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Google's OpenSocial Platform Releases

Posted by Zonk on from the everybody-needs-somebody-some-time dept.

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.

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  1. Now Google??? by rukidding · · Score: 3, Funny

    So now even Google is jumping into this whole web 2.0 thing?

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    1. Re:Now Google??? by Pazy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why be suprised at google, they will be opening there own coffee shop franchise soon. Maybe fund a few space flights. They could do anything and I wouldent even blink anymore lol

    2. Re:Now Google??? by Seumas · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I've already given up. The internet is just turning into one giant party phone. Like the chat lines they used to advertise in the middle of the night in the late 1980s. If you can cash in on that sad state of affairs, I guess you might as well. Can't blame any company that does. Perhaps some day that will fade away and the internet will become something slightly less sophomoric and navel-gazing. Yes, part of the internet still serves a purpose other than trying to score with teenage girls and watching the video at 2girls1cup.com, but not much.

    3. Re:Now Google??? by owlnation · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yes, and sadly the one thing they seem not to be doing, is the one thing they should be doing -- developing the next gen of search. We are still a long long way away from adequate search.

    4. Re:Now Google??? by 4D6963 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, part of the internet still serves a purpose other than trying to score with teenage girls and watching the video at 2girls1cup.com, but not much.

      Thanks for the link! ;-)

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    5. Re:Now Google??? by Photar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Spoken like someone with a high UID.

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  2. Premier launch applications by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 4, Funny

    Premier applications launching on the platform include "GlobalPoke", "iReallyReallyReallyLike", and the sure-to-entertain "Biggest Fucking Super Duper Wall Ever"

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  3. No SDK or Docs for Implementation, Though by duerra · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  4. Re:How many of those have you heard of? by Albanach · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  5. Duh by Mr_Silver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will Facebook give in?

    No.

    Time and history has shown us that when you're number 1, you don't give in until you absolutely have to - because you don't need to.

    That time has not yet come...

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    1. Re:Duh by owlnation · · Score: 4, Informative

      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...

    2. Re:Duh by yashinka · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Perhaps they don't have the most accounts, but with the huge amount of fake accounts on MySpace, that figure is meaningless. I, like many people I know, have accounts on MySpace, Friendster and maybe a few others, but I only log in when I have friend requests.

      Facebook has the best UI and it already has tons of great apps. Until those apps move and all my friends move and users start changing back, I don't think Facebook has anything to worry about. Facebook has the most used photo app and events app on the internet, and those are just two of many. I think it's safe to say they are number one for now.

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    3. Re:Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If you add "in the US" to every sentence you wrote, then, you'd be accurate.

  6. Re:How many of those have you heard of? by iluvcapra · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think I have a friendster account, I made it in 2005 when all the pretty young things in Hollywood were using it for their "social" (sing. n.). I haven't used it since the week I made it, I doubt I could even log into it now (everybody went to myspace after about a month, and then to facebook, and nobody ever checks their page anyways). I suspect the number of accounts many social networking sites report come with the same caveat. I think the real question is "How many logins have at least one access per week? Per day?" The real gem is owning a website that people use every day and keep current with real information.

    The salesforce.com numbers are the most interesting, since the contacts that particular corpus tracks are recorded by paying subscribers, and are used in commercial transactions, and not by vapid teeners to promote their band or unite with other Gossip Girls fans.

    Of course, this information is really useful if you're selling cheap amps or advertising time for the CW, but considering the quality of the source, you might as well be using wikipedia to find the exchange rate of the dollar.

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  7. Re:Again, no! by davidsyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is NOT unpossible, becuase it is not irreleaseble...

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  8. Re:Oh my! by Silver+Gryphon · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    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. ...

  9. Re:How many of those have you heard of? by SnowZero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone who drives on 101 has seen salesforce.com... How ridiculous and arrogant. Some of us only have to drive on 85 to get to work. How dare you!