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Battle Lines Being Drawn Over OpenSocial

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-very-beta dept.

SkiifGeek writes "Microsoft employees have already openly criticized Google's OpenSocial initiative (recently discussed here), and now there's news that one of the first OpenSocial applications, emote by Plaxo, was hacked within 45 minutes of appearing on the Net (it was subsequently pulled while Plaxo looked into fixing the holes). Although coding errors can happen to anyone, leaving evidence of lax programming discipline when all it takes to view your code is 'View Source' is poor form. It seems that the battle lines have been drawn between Microsoft and Google through their social networking proxies, with Facebook getting ready to fire the next salvo in the social networking battle."

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  1. OpenSocial is fixing a solved problem! by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chromatic points out that the whole problem addressed by Ope\ nSocial's API has already been solved:

    Over the weekend I encountered a dusty old RFC written in 1982 that might solve this persnickety interoperability problem. Jon Posten's Social Messaging Transport Protocol describes a system that relies on the combination of your unique identifier (username) on a social networking site with a unique identifier (domain name) for such site to produce an Internet-wide addressible identifier uniquely identifying, well, you. Given this unique identifier, any conformant messaging system can use this Messaging protocol to send you, well, a message.

    Honestly, I can't understand why Google et al. would ignore this work. If only there were some way of contacting them...

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  2. Funniest Comment of the Year by Joebert · · Score: 2, Funny

    // TODO: no error checking - were bold // TODO: figure out why this is necessary???


    I nominate thoat for funniest comment by a "programmer" of the year.
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  3. Re:OpenSocial isn't going to save MySpace. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Facebook also has a huge group of women that like to display their pictures taken when they are drunk and half undressed.

    Facebook for the win!!!!

  4. Re:Ya'all know its a fad, right? by minister+of+funk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry, but where did you get the idea that, say, Facebook, is being frequented by teens? Last I'd heard, it's primary demographic was 18-35 year old university grads, for the most part.

    ... trolling for teens.

  5. Welcome to facebook... by beav007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...where the men are men, the women are men, and the 14 year old girls are FBI agents...