Thursday 1 November 2007

Google opens networks

Google announced OpenSocial today and I think I agree with Boyd's assessment below.

/Message: Google OpenSocial: The Open Common Services Approach
What Google is doing is not completely open, since after all it is defining its own APIs -- in collaboration with a collection of interested participants who are collectively interested in countering Facebook's growing hegemony -- but it is more open that Facebook's, certainly.

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