Yahoo plugs in to OpenSocial
p2pnet news | Products: Google has unveiled a set of application program interfaces (APIs) that allow third-party programmers to build widgets that take advantage of personal data and profile connections on a social-networking site, said CNET News last November.
It’s called OpenSocial but where Google is involved, nothing is truly open, said p2pnet.
“Everything it does is designed with one primary goal in mind: to extend and strengthen its own positions,” and, “Google’s vision of the World Wide Web has it sitting squarely in the centre, gently manipulating the millions of strands and strings to its own ultimate advantage.”
Now, “Yahoo Inc. has joined Google Inc. and MySpace in supporting an initiative aimed at making it easier for software developers to build features for social-networking sites,” says the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Yahoo’s endorsement adds momentum to the effort … which aims to create a common standard for Web applications known as widgets. The tiny pieces of software – games, slide shows and music-sharing services, among other things – are increasingly popular on social networking sites.”
The three are betting social networks will eventually become mega-money spinners.
But they could be wrong.
Meanwhile, OpenSocial might better be named ClosedCircuit.
Also See:
CNET News – OpenSocial opens new can of worms, October 31, 2007
p2pnet – Google`s OpenSocial, November 1, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle – Yahoo joins OpenSocial widget project, March 26, 2008
could be wrong – Social networks: Billy Bragg`s lament, March 24, 2008
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