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Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rat-a-tat-tat dept.

jg21 writes "It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care.""

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  1. Fifty million DEVELOPERS? by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Facebook has fifty million USERS. It's true most of them wouldn't care about Google's new API; most of them won't be writing a lick of code. They'll certainly be willing to incorporate pre-made widgets into their pages, though, which makes the question whether Google's API will produce neater widgets than Facebook's proprietary one.