Microsoft join or fight the OpenSocial?
In all the conversation this week about Google’s OpenSocial launch, Microsoft’s own social network — Windows Live Spaces — is absent from just about every blog post, article and discussion.
Instead, most pundits are positing that the new playing field looks like this: Google, MySpace, Bebo, Ning, LinkedIn and just about everybody else vs. Facebook (and Microsoft, but only by virtue of its ad deal with and stake in Facebook). OpenSocial is now “a platform” which developers can “learn once and write anywhere.” Facebook is a closed platform, for now at least, unless the company joins OpenSocial or makes public its own programming interfaces. And Microsoft is … yet again, absent from this Web platform debate — other than being one of the “bad guys” that the other saintly “open platform” backers want to foil.
Microsoft, Open-Source, Open Source, OpenSocial, Facebook, Windows Live, Live Spaces
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Pingback from 1My Ghillie » Microsoft join or fight the OpenSocial? says:November 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm
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