Google’s OpenSocial
November 1, 2007
I saw this article on the BBC and knew instantly that this would be significant for our Portfolio interoperability community. But how significant? The most helpful blogposts that I saw to begin with were
- Seb Schmoller put me on to
- Marc Andreessen who has also done
- a followup on the same topic
Then I was thinking who to else would be most in a position to comment, and I thought of
- Ben Werdmuller of Curverider (and Elgg of course)
- who has also posted on Curverider's blog - more technically perhaps
I hope these links are helpful to people.
The official API is here, along with much other information including a video.
More recently, our Scott Wilson has added his informed reflections.
Check out Shelley Powers post: http://burningbird.net/technology/terms/
It's about the most useful I've seen so far.
[...] Initiatives such as “OpenSocial” (and blogged about by CETIS colleages Scott Wilson and Simon Grant) are more open in the sense of an API opening up a proprietary system than many might like. To be [...]