Just Call Me Anti-Social
OpenSocial? For developers, great news, for everyday people, not so much.
Google on Friday launched OpenSocial, a common platform for developers of social websites, in a
The Internet search leader said it hopes OpenSocial’s set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) will revolutionize the Internet’s social powers.
“The web is fundamentally better when it’s social, and we’re only just starting to see what’s possible when you bring social information into different contexts on the web,” said Jeff Huber, senior vice president of engineering, Google.
OpenSocial will make it much easier for developers to create new interfaces and applications for social networking. The problem with that, is there will soon be over 100,000 different applications and interfaces, but only a few, like the originals, will be worth using.