Social Media Design: Best Practices To Build Your First Open Social Widget

from Robin Good's blog ("Be Smart, Be Independent, Be Good")

OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications across many websites which in the end makes it very easy for a large number of individuals to start developing their own social web applications.

Photo credit: UK Open University - edited by Robin Good

Three characterizing traits make OpenSocial such a very compelling proposition for would-be new social web developers:

a) Developers only need to learn the OpenSocial APIs in order to create web apps that work with any OpenSocial-enabled website.

b) Developers have a broad distribution network to reach users because any website can easily implement OpenSocial.

c) Websites also benefit by engaging a much larger pool of third-party developers than they could without a standard set of APIs.

But how difficult is it for you to develop social apps using OpenSocial?

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Facebook v. Open Social

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Facebook_v_google Open Social is a set of social networking application APIs that Google is encouraging all social networks to adopt as their application architecture. Its goal is to standardize social networking apps so that they can be run on more than one social network. It's meant to challenge Facebook's tremendous success with their F8 application platform.
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Father of web 2.0 slams Google OpenSocial

Lack of data sharing means platform misses the mark

Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 08 Nov 2007

Tim O'Reilly, the father of the term 'web 2.0', has denounced Google's OpenSocial as "boring" and a "full blown disappointment".

OpenSocial offers a standard for applications on social networks that allow developers to market applications on any network supporting the standard. Early supporters include Plaxo, LinkedIn, MySpace and Google's Orkut.

The standard does not unlock data from the participating network, however, which might have allowed a MySpace user to exchange messages with a LinkedIn user, for example.

The service also will not allow the use of social search engines that let users locate friends across all networks.

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