Why OpenSocial really Matters
Read/WriteWeb
November 22, 2007
By Alex Iskold
Why Google’s OpenSocial is so important (and so different) from other APIs? Alex Iskold wrote a good post:
(…) Yet, Open Social is not a fluke and neither it is an accident. It is an important step in the evolution of social and open web, a step that we have seen taken before in other circumstances. It is called commoditization. By creating an exchange of gadgets and social information Google and Co. declared that the era of social silos is over. In this post we look at the details of the open social API, discuss its adoption and look into the future of the social web.
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