Gosh. I just need to read up on this. But what I’ve read so far makes me feel good in many ways. In other ways, it makes me feel bad. 🙂
There’s a lot on my mind around this, but I am sure others are spewing out their own take on it that might end up similar to mine.
Off the top of my head: Plaxo, opening the social graph, some washed up networks, Google, Google, Google, and that pesky rumor of an immanent device (mind you, most likely guided by Rubin from Danger from Android now from Google).
Eh, I still don’t think this might amount to an effective play against Facebook.
Link: » Google’s OpenSocial: What it means | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com:
Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google’s open party. So far, besides Google’s Orkut social net, LinkedIn, hi5, XING, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning (see Marc Andreessen’s post) have joined the party.
