Ah, my dreams will come true one day…. and http://dataportability.org/ is another step closer! A few initiatives/groups/projects/technologies that I am in favor of, and everyone should check out, embrace, and eventually adopt: OpenSocial (see my post here) DataPortability W3C Android & the Open Handset Alliance OpenMoko Open APIs XML/RSS/Atom
In reply to my OpenSocial post, online reputation company Rapleaf co-founder Vivek Sodera sent me some interesting statistics that they have gathered. The statistics show the overlap of users between social networks. Why does this relate to OpenSocial? OpenSocial is a bridge between Social Networks and non-social networks. If User X has an account at [...]
Google is unstoppable. This Thursday, November 1, 2007, Google will launch OpenSocial (url goes live on Thursday); a set of API’s that allow developers to interact with ANY social network that chooses to participate. What does this mean? It means that in order to access Orkut, LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, and other currently participating social networks, [...]