OpenSocial: It is the data, stupid
O’Reilly Radar
November 7, 2007
By Tim O’Reilly
While I’m a huge fan of the idea of an open social networking platform, I’m bemused by all the enthusiasm over Google 
OpenSocial. As I sit with what I learn, the mild skepticism I expressed the other day has turned into full blown disappointment. This is nothing like the social network operating system that I got so excited about when I first heard Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon’s thought’s on the subject.
My disappointment with OpenSocial was crystallized by an exchange between Patrick Chanezon, Google’s developer advocate for the program, and an audience member at the OpenSocial session at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin. The audience member asked something about building applications that can remix data from the participating social networking platforms. Patrick’s answer was along the lines of: “No, you only have access to the data of the individual platform or application.”
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