Comments on: Open Social

Open Social

delmoi — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:03:51 -0800

Open Social API, coming soon (according to techcrunch) Google will be launching it's Open Social API, designed to allow inter operation between social networks. Social networks like orkut, linkedin, friendster, sixapart (livejournal and vox) and myspace will likely be using the technology. It's supposed to be announced today (at this URL, no less)

By: phaedon

phaedon — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:15:25 -0800

If GOOG stock breaks $1000, I think I'll kill myself.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:20:38 -0800

The requested URL /apis/opensocial was not found on this server

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:20:53 -0800

OMG U NO BE MYY FRND

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:21:55 -0800

and myspace will likely be using the technology Confirmed: MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook.

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:26:38 -0800

If GOOG stock breaks $1000, I think I'll kill myself. Nice knowing you.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:29:56 -0800

Welcome to the social!

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:31:07 -0800

So, what, my Google homepage will want me to join the humans to fight the zombies now? I think all of MySpace and Facebook's applications should be evidence to anyone with some sense who's making a social application: if you let the users customize it, or god forbid, encourage them to customize it, without very strict limitations, then, on average, they will take a shit on the internet.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:36:51 -0800

its

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:49:41 -0800

screw an opensocial. what about an ice cream social? huh huh? with blueberries please

By: davejay

davejay — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:15:53 -0800

So once this is done, Google uses whether or not they're your "friend" somewhere, and how far removed, to filter your Gmail for you, I suppose? It's something like that, or ads, right?

By: luriete

luriete — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:20:28 -0800

$10 that opensocial is a central part of the gphone's "phone book" system

By: TimTypeZed

TimTypeZed — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:49:22 -0800

Dear Misters Google, Could you please build an online genealogy application for me? I'd really appreciate it. Sure, there are sites like Geni finally bubbling up, but they're all run by marketers and dataminers who seek the valuation of active email addresses and look upon the deceased as loss leaders. You good people at Google seem to be alone in the depth of your appreciation of all information, in seeking to be the world's library. Why squander your power here finding a new way for teenagers to announce that Good Charlotte means everything to them? Imagine if you could digitize historic government (the census, the birth marriage death records, the property records) and church records, all that stuff now held underground in Utah, then give ancestors the ability to index, annotate, and link together mentions of an individual across records. If you could then make it possible for people across the world to collaboratively build profiles of their ancestors supported by these historic records, plus family stories, keepsakes and photography, most of the people who lived in the Western world in the past couple hundred years would soon be linked to their living descendants. What a resource you'd have. Think about it. Thank you.

By: GeckoDundee

GeckoDundee — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:49:51 -0800

its Not fair, interrobang. One of those "it's" is not like the other one.

By: luriete

luriete — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:24:54 -0800

TimTypeZed: an interactive, web 2.0 geneaology app - where different family members could all collaborate, adding photos from wherever - would indeed be awesome, especially if you could then embed it in an iframe on your own family website.

By: ijoshua

ijoshua — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:39:43 -0800

I was pondering when this would appear on the blue, and wondering if the immenant post would include the published, yet still broken link. (Referrring to the last one, in case it does become working in the future.)

By: 517

517 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:02:00 -0800

It'll be just like puritan New England again. Where everybody knows everything about you, what a great idea.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:15:03 -0800

an interactive, web 2.0 geneaology app Not all that 2.0, maybe, but this might be right up yer alley.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:19:12 -0800

Yeah, I've been using geni, and it's really addictive. There are some things that need to be worked out, but even as it is, it's well worth trying. Just uncheck the box that says you want them to send people e-mail.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:35:01 -0800

So lessee... not only do they track my searches, they track my advertising clicks and my IP address, scan my email, and, now, know who my friends are and what kind of tricks they're up to. Yah, this is really going to end well. We need secure encryption from keyboard-to-screen. It's way too easy to learn far too much personal information about internet users.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:55:56 -0800

I thought Google only did useful and/or cool stuff.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:47:48 -0800

MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook. Wow, ~~Tom~~ Google sure has a lot of friends!

By: anildash

anildash — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:13:15 -0800

and, now, know who my friends are and what kind of tricks they're up to One of the whole goals of OpenSocial is that you can choose which networks you use, which is part of why a lot of the same groups are working on an open social graph as well. That means you don't have to use any network/service from a company you're not comfortable with, simply because your friends do.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:22:16 -0800

So there is no central nameserver keeping track of IPs and names?

By: anildash

anildash — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:24:13 -0800

Nope, OpenSocial is just an API set that anybody can implement (if they want to host applications) or use (if they want to build apps).

By: rusty

rusty — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:06:33 -0800

This looks like a very good idea. I wish they'd release the service provider docs already.

By: lsemel

lsemel — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:37:07 -0800

Great, now the Facebook API is passe. That trend lasted all of two months.

By: Anything

Anything — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:00:28 -0800

Ok, so far I've understood that this means that apps will work on all participating social network sites. What I'm interested in is whether users on one network can now transparently interact with users on another network. Anyone know more about this?