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  • william · 1 year ago
    There is noting "Open" about "Open" Social. It can only been seen for what it is; a plan by Facebook to continue to raise their revenue and values on backs of other sites content and members.

    Developers and content creators of the world, it is time to free yourselves from the share cropping model that is web 2.0.

    What will facebook give back to the developer community for their efforts ?


    Will face book share a percentage of the value that is created in their company with the developers and content creators that have added the most value.

    The value of that content creators and the developers add is something that is measurable. I doubt Microsoft invested close to a billion dollars in face book for their technology.

    How does developing for face book or integrating "Open" Social help anyone but facebook ?

    Why does developing for face book involve using non standard development methods when there are well known open source standards that could be used ? Because facebook like Microsoft and Google wants to be the standard and they want you to develop for their platform so that you can help them become the standard. I think we have seen this before; and we are still living with the repercussions.
  • sujamthe · 1 year ago
    Jesse,

    It is not just technical limitation that is stopping this IMHO.

    FriendConnect by Google and Facebook Connect are two competiting ways for an external web site to authenticate users. If Google implements Facebook Connect, it is essentially allowing users to continue to signup for facebook and keep their accounts there as their main identity and hence Goog is not going to do it.

    This brings an interesting point - As many sites open as platforms with their own APIs, there is the opportunity for smart developers like you to build this connection because each large site is not going to do it between then.

    I've been organizing a panel for CodeCamp trying to bring smart platform players together for a discussion with developers on what it means to them to have so many APIs.

    I'd like to see more of your thoughts on this. ping me online if you just want to chat, or post a comment and I'll check again.
  • inka · 1 day ago
    Awesome insight to making the web more social, I can’t wait to add this functionality to my blog!