No, actually. The world is not so simple. But it’s a nice transitional moment. There’s so much hot commentary about OpenSocial that I’m only going to add a few snippets and links (go straight to TechMeme for the rest):
1. The two sites that I thought had the most interesting commentary: Mashable is full of dozens of late-breaking stories, including an interview with Hi5 re OpenSocial, and Compete.com does a nice statistical analysis supporting their hunches about OpenSocial
2. Even as a merely casual user of FaceBook and MySpace, I can’t see any moves like this getting me as a user to ’switch allegiances’… but of course for developers it is nice to avoid having to deal with dozens of idiosyncratic widget APIs, and this is a great step. Moreover, sometime down the road one of those developers will do something compelling enough for users to think again about their allegiances.
3. Add into the equation the Google OS (gOS) I wrote about yesterday (immediately below). Now that combo is a very interesting story… let’s see how it plays out…
[UPDATE: for an in-depth technical analysis and critique, a breath of fresh air far from the standard pro-and-con musings, see this posting by Dare Obasanjo]
Technorati Tags: gOS, OpenSocial
November 3, 2007 at 5:34 pm
OpenSocial has a heck of a mountain to climb – no Facebook, no MySpace. In other words, not currently relevant to 95%(?) of social networking punters. Ning – what do I care?
It’s all about user base (just like Open Learn!).
November 5, 2007 at 2:53 pm
[...] effort worth their while. Another veteran analyst, Marc Eisenberg, urged everyone to calm down but called the release of OpenSocial, ‘a nice transitional [...]