Posts Tagged ‘api’

OpenSocial is Getting Better

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

OpenSocial Logo

Some folks will recall back in November I wrote how OpenSocial was irrelevant as a platform for social networking applications. I’ve been working with it for the last three days on MySpace and have to say, over the last few months the folks at MySpace have been working hard to bring OpenSocial to a usable reality. I’ve had some time this week to experiment with it and I must say - while certainly not “done” it’s come a VERY long way. Warning: This is going to get kinda lame for those who don’t care about Social Networks and application development. (more…)

Why OpenSocial doesn’t matter - yet.

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

OpenSocial

OpenSocial, is a new open standard for applications to integrate with some of the largest social networks in the world. On the surface, OpenSocial is a great move forward for application developers. The learning curve for FBML and FQL at Facebook is trivial at best, but just as learning many similar languages at once, having one simple API to reference is ultimately much easier. The portability of write once, run anywhere brings back to mind the panacea called Java. However, in reality, OpenSocial promotes frivolous time wasting applications that lack any real utility. This may change (and I sincerely hope it does) in future iterations, but for now, Facebook has the social networking platform to beat.

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