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- cakeeating, on 11/02/2007, -0/+9Welcome to the Vex.
- tman84, on 11/03/2007, -2/+11buried, does anyone other than girls who want to show as many pictures of themselves possible, and guys trying to promote their deathstompmetalcore garage band that no one cares about really give a crap. Its one multibillion dollar company after another competing to shove marketing materials in your young credit card loving faces.
In the end everyone wins but you - danc4498, on 11/02/2007, -0/+6Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!!!!
- apoc06, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5the word social has been a noun for a while. "chompy took a date to his company's christmas social."
and just to really set your head spinning, you can also use it as an adjective: "chompy hates social gatherings." - inactive, on 11/02/2007, -2/+7It seems to me that all three of these "concerns" are the type of thing that only bloggers would care about. They're worried that Google is going to control programs created by Google? Oh noes, teh horror! Can't be having a company control their own software! Might lead to Capitalism! As for "lack of cross-site identity", that's really only something that never-been-kissed morons care about. If Digg has shown us ANYTHING, it's that so-called "social" sites are inevitably ruined by a handful of people who have absolutely no lives, and thus spend all their time trying to monopolize whatever board they're currently obsessed with. (Pizzler and MrBabyMan, anyone?) As for his utterly insane comments about "Large Corporations" and their innate inability to "be hip": Yeah, because Apple certainly has never been able to create hip new trends, right? And Google itself certainly isn't hip and trendy with the Geek crowd. And You Tube certainly isn't a multi-billion dollar corporation. *eyes rolled*
- Chompy, on 11/03/2007, -5/+10The continued use of the word "social" as a noun of late vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.
- abran1984, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5His blog: (I hate blogspam)
#1 - Can it be monetized?
If developers can’t make money off the applications, then what is the point of developing on the platform?
#2 - Is it truly open?
Can you communicate across social networks? Can I get my friends list on Plaxo, Orkut and Myspace — or is it limited to the container?
#3 - Will it really be a standard or a mess in 6 months?
Ning founder has said that containers will be able to develop API’s specific to their container. What happens in 6 months when Myspace has a ‘bulletin’ API, Ning has a Friend Finder API, and Orkut has a photo gallery API — all completely different, and none that work across networks? - DatVillain83, on 11/03/2007, -5/+9indexing user's personal activities has always unnerved me whenever i've forgotten to log off google before. Ads follow me around the internet, gmail, now social networking? Forget bittorent activities these API protocols are gonna be a nightmare.
- HonoredMule, on 11/03/2007, -0/+4"a mass marketing mainstream teenage attention whore website"
"think tank approved, consumer driven advertisements"
What, like digg? - inactive, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4Nerd cyber-revolt complete with spamming article submissions about how much digg sold out to "the man" and mooninite ASCII art? I'm sure Rose and company are shaking in their boots.
I'm becoming entirely too cynical. - Philluminati, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Whether through google or not. Google are attempting to create an open standard so they can accurately search and index Facebook and MySpace profiles. The main reason to me is that google loves information. Whether it's to improve it's adverts, to improve it's text based and language translation tools, it wants information. It's web history of you, it's processing of your inbox and now, with the power to read your social networking profile...it's going to paint an extremely worrying and complete structure of your personality. I wouldn't say that my emails describe me to everyone because it's just a small part of my social interaction, but combined with my facebook profile + my google groups + my searches and it's index of game scores (from game sites that generate them from the game) that show up my username, no doubt somehow linked to my real name via other sites - it does start to paint a pretty big picture of who I am. To be honest, I'd rather the information was more logically separated
- Chompy, on 11/02/2007, -1/+4I'm down with adjectives, I mean it's gotta be something. But no nouns. Otherwise.. well, you know. The vexing.
- dennison, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Here's my first take on the API http://digg.com/software/First_look_at_the_OpenSoc ...
- abusive, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Or else?
- bobcrotch, on 11/02/2007, -2/+33 words: Tin Foil Hat
- pj84, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Good one :)
- richbradshaw, on 11/02/2007, -2/+3In Soviet Russia, vex you social.
- ronjohn, on 11/02/2007, -1/+21. I'm black
2. I purchaed 12 shares of google when they offered the IP and I hope this doden't hurt my stock. - NoodleGuy, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1It's in the dictionary as a noun: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social Granted there are 12 definitions where it's an adjective and only one where it's a noun, but 1 definition is all that's needed.
- Coolaborations, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0ReadWriteWeb is also (like SixApart and TechCrunch) apparently censoring some comments out -- see http://battellemedia.com/archives/004062.php#comme ...
- marshallk, on 11/03/2007, -2/+2cross site identity is only for never-been-kissed morons? my lady will get a kick out of that, especially when I tell her tough luck if she wants to switch mobile phone providers and keep the same number. I'll call her a never been kissed moron, thanks
- yoyobean, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0I'll do my good deed for the day. This issue has relevance for you only if you plan on being active on social sites. OpenSocial is basically an answer to the closed Facebook platform - on Facebook your "social graph" (catchy annoying phrase) is locked within Facebook itself, you can't open it up for use by other networks like Orkut (not that anyone uses that in the US) or LinkedIn or whatever.
Google and others are betting that there's power in how social graph data is produced, searched, shared, and consumed. Opening it up to a standard everyone can share freely makes a potential monopoly by one social network (Facebook, or Myspace I guess too) less likely.
Of course if your question was rhetorical than I just made a complete ass of myself. - stickywheelz, on 11/02/2007, -1/+1You'll give a crap when you run into something or some app emerges that pertains directly to your own personal interests.
- brentinkc, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0You know, I've been reading about this for three days and I still don't know what the ***** they're talking about. Anybody want to clear this up for me? Does this have any relevance to me as a user?
- kyouteki, on 11/02/2007, -2/+2Sounds like FUD to me.
- tman84, on 11/03/2007, -2/+2i buy my fruit from a local grocer, my tools from the local hardware store, my burgers from a diner, and my video games from the local tech shop. if i ever go to a mass marketing mainstream teenage attention whore website for any applications, then al qaida wins.
keep drinking that kool aid, but those sites bring nothing to the table other than contrived, think tank approved, consumer driven advertisements. - HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -2/+1How about: The average consumer doesn't care about this one iota?
- djat, on 11/02/2007, -1/+0We are proposing the idea of a "personal cloud" instead. Everything starts out on an individual's server(s), then gets federated out to other locations according to the permission of the user. Data portability isn't as needed since it's fundamentally stored at "home" in the PC. http://www.suprasphere.com is our project.
- muniak, on 11/02/2007, -3/+1Digg better not join.
- FuzzplugJones, on 11/02/2007, -5/+2They gave a ***** of money to the Kerry campaign in 2004, so most people who are concerned about big business and privacy and all that will probably give them a pass.
- mangasm, on 11/02/2007, -6/+3"OpenSocial" reminds me of the Zune's... uh... what was it again?
- drewolanoff, on 06/10/2008, -10/+6only 3 concerns? lol.
- ryanmerket, on 11/02/2007, -7/+2I have similar concerns:
http://ryanmerket.com/blog/
Don't dig me down, this is not spam... just discussion.
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