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- graviplana, on 11/03/2007, -3/+17Great news. We need an open Social Networking set of tools. We probably need something even more open than Google. Anything to dethrone the privacy-violating conformity behemoth that is Facebook. Dugg for intent.
- physicx, on 11/03/2007, -3/+13looks like things are picking up. NICE
- diggmemphis, on 11/03/2007, -0/+8Microsoft announces plans to acquire 0.05% of Open Social for $100,000,000.
- roberto_deneero, on 11/03/2007, -2/+9The government is reading what you wrote. They're outside your house right now. Go ahead....go on....peek out your front window. See that blue sedan across the street? That's them. They're spying on you. They're categorizing you right now. OMG. Run! Go! ***** RUN!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!
PS- you are a complete jacktard. - SuperMoses, on 11/02/2007, -0/+7Does this mean I can now have "Extreme Poke" in LinkedIn too? AWESOME!
- mCanada, on 11/03/2007, -0/+5I call mine "email"
- cheald, on 11/03/2007, -3/+7Awesome. This is what things like microformats and OpenID have been inching towards, but with Google's weight behind it, this could end up being a truly wonderful thing for most anyone that writes applications that need profile and friend data. Can't wait to see it in action.
- teadrinker, on 11/03/2007, -1/+5Now, what we need is a peer-to-peer social network. All this storing everything about you on some website is making me nervous.
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3Oh My!!! ……….”Google wants to create an easy way for developers to create on application that works on all social networks. And if they pull it off, they’ll be in the center, controlling the network.” Well enough said. No wonder why Google did not “WIN” the bidding war for the Facebook investment - They don’t have to when they are the toll booth!
On the other hand ALL the social networking sites will now have to open up otherwise they will lose members.
Just recently I was having this conversation with a technology guy who uses Facebook and I use MySpace. He sent me a Facebook invite and I told him that was the last thing I needed another “network”.
Continuation of the grand theme: Google doesn’t do content, they make it easier for you to find it, create it, share it. They don’t do social networks, just make the ones you already use better/easier. Don’t (won’t) make a phone, but will hopefully make mobile web apps (and OS) better and also makes carriers nervous. Cool, cool, and cool. Scary stuff for Google competitors!
User data, social graph and activities.
- All Google needs to do is use their Gmail address list and tap into the $20M, 5% AOL stake and integrate with AOL IM’s buddy list to have the world’s largest social graph.
- Now if Google could allow developers to tap into the API’s and embed social data on any website, there would be no walls, the entire web would be a social network….which it is already. (ie alert all your friends that this blog is a good read…which I already did via emailing them)
- So in the end, I guess we learn that openness always prevails.... Google does as expected and wins again. Just when you think they're going to keep the Ring to rule them all, they let everyone have it. Genius. - afx1, on 10/31/2007, -3/+6somebody can't read it looks like...
- GeekyGerge, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3It must be a pain in the ass for you to log back in with that name
- ejdmoo, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3Untrue. He leaves in summer '08.
- dawgma, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3yeah, that's right, you damn genius. Google develops broad social networking tools IN RESPONSE to Microsoft acquiring the ad contract for Facebook.
I swear to God, Diggers will read two headlines in succession and think they are somehow connected to each other. Listen... it's not witty when you make references to recently popular stories... just go to bed. - MattBD, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3I second that. While I do like Facebook, I'd much rather it were more open than it is. By uniting a group of smaller social networks against it, and creating a common method of creating applications, Google have really upped the ante. With a total number of users twice the size of Facebook, and making it simple to create new applications using just regular HTML and CSS, removing the need for a whole new markup language, OpenSocial will drastically change the social networking landscape. Facebook could well find itself increasingly sidelined.
I'd be interested to know if MySpace have any plans to participate in this. As I'm sure we're all aware, they announced plans to open to third party applications, and it might be easier for them to sign up to this than develop their own API's - rohitbrai, on 11/03/2007, -0/+2Hey I have got the screen shots for Orkut Sandbox at http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com/2007/11/orkut-s ...
Just got access to it by luck :) - webjoseph, on 11/03/2007, -2/+4This is a great "googlesque" approach to solving difficult problems with their vast resources. Couple with Google Code, there is now a really compelling reason to look to google for social platform development.
- EXECUTiVE, on 11/03/2007, -0/+2myspace is on board now + pretty much every one but facebook... check techcrunch.com
- clarocada, on 11/03/2007, -0/+226-Sep-07: "What Google may have in store is significantly more open than allowing people to build applications on top of Facebook - Google is thought to be planning to allow third parties (including other social networks) to both push and pull data, into, and out of, Google and non-Google applications. Google is, I think, planning Glue 2.0, and the company that perhaps holds the key data and owns the process that allows that data to be pulled around is going to be very powerful. Its logical extensions might include single sign-on, verified ID services, and allowing one to have a core of information in a profile to avoid the need to retype or replicate it across different social networks or web applications."
That was a Blog by Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, where he also predicted that Microsoft would buy a slice of Facebook. Before it happened. Check it out at http://httv.biz/AEVWL/ - daveisfera, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I agree that that's a good idea, but that violates the user agreement on Facebook, so I doubt that will happen.
- ubergeek09, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1This sounds awesome, I normally think social networking is overall pretty lame, but this actually intrigues me..
- SeethisPass, on 11/16/2007, -0/+1All of your comments are archived and searchable by the government. This ability will be helpful to them. They would like more help, No?
After observing political and demographic developments over my years here I find that the status quo is leading to depopulation.
It will or it won't be achieved,
but the actual creators of history, those who's decisions cause or even create the things that count for global history, cumulatively want depopulation because of their personal greed for power. and dominion. A much smaller population, using far less resources, that is completely under elite control is their self serving goal
I can see that
If you can't, then so much the worse for you and yours.
You might want to consider self preservation as one of your future goals.
I understand that this thread is meant to discuss tech news but the reasons for this particular development are more important. - chaoskaizer, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1i like the cdn part
- ungamedplayer, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1anonydigg,
Yeah, as a Linux developer, I've heard that before "unless it does X, we wont switch", its *****, build X and you wont switch because you are too lazy. Just admit it. - sockpuppets, on 10/31/2007, -3/+4So this will basically aggregate a bunch of smaller/less successful players in the hope of competing against giants that have little incentive to play along?
Sounds like the early days of eBay and their need to lock out aggregators and disintermediators. Only this time it's Facebook. - kdev, on 11/01/2007, -0/+0Sounds like another innovation from google that's sure to catch fire.
- anonydigg, on 10/31/2007, -3/+3They need to make it work with Facebook or I won't waste my time on it. They don't need any deals. They just need to write the code and allow people who have Facebook developer accounts to have Google translate code for them instead of them having to learn Faceboook markup.
- ProducedRaw, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1Go go gadget google!
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http://astore.amazon.com/outdoor.chaise.lounge-20 - inactive, on 10/31/2007, -1/+0Open Social will improve my social life by this much....watch.
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, on 11/02/2007, -6/+5DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
- echolyean, on 10/31/2007, -3/+2Thumbs up for giving me a new favorite word of the day. Jacktard.
- REUYL, on 10/31/2007, -3/+2Welcome to the social?
- EXreaction, on 11/01/2007, -2/+1Bill Gates isn't a part of MSFT anymore...
- Googlelady, on 10/31/2007, -4/+3afraid no but they want the competition since msn/microsoft/bill gates bought some small part of facebook ;)
- latrosicarius, on 11/02/2007, -4/+2it's "nth" degree, regardless of what you think your teacher has been saying all these years
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/31/2007, -3/+1Can we just get this "social networking" thing over and merge Facebook, MySpace, and AdultFriendFinder together? Google can just buy all three, and have us up an running by Spring '08. That's where this is all going anyway, isn't it?
- Observant1, on 11/01/2007, -7/+5oh boy a new spyware alert !!
- Scumbag13, on 10/31/2007, -5/+0mirror: http://cre8ivetension.com/resources/_wsb_548x824_M ...
- EXreaction, on 11/02/2007, -6/+1Is it bad if the only launch partner I have heard of is Oracle?
- SeethisPass, on 10/31/2007, -13/+3Looks like the government wants to categorize all of our personalities to the inth degree so they can cull the herd so to speak.and has co-opted the company that has used " don't be evil " as their motto in the far distant past.
/ informed and experienced pessimism
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