Will Google Join the Crowd With A "Friend Connect" Platform?

Giant social networks Myspace and Facebook have plans to expand beyond their walls. Myspace announced on Thursday its Data Availability platform and Facebook countered quickly with Facebook Connect. Now it seems that Google's OpenSocial platform will join the ranks on Monday with "Friend...

ReadWriteWeb | more posts | 59 days | Sat., May 10, '08

How tech wars end

The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. In recent memory, the browser wars, the Java wars, before that there were wars over email APIs, desktops, GUIs, networking standards, you name it, if there's money to be made in controlling users, there's been a war to lock those users in....

Scripting News | more posts | 59 days | Sat., May 10, '08

Google Goes Social With Friend Connect

Yesterday, the Internets were abuzz with news that Google has launched Friend Connect, which appears to be "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites," according to TechCrunch. Google's own press release mentions that Friend...

Search Engine Roundtable | more posts | 56 days | Tue., May 13, '08

A light on the end of the tunnel

I’ve long believed that the crossover from the Industrial Age to the Information Age will be marked by an awakening to the need by customers to control their own selves, rather than to remain subordinated to the controlling interests of companies. Same thing with citizens and...

Doc Searls Weblog | more posts | 58 days | Mon., May 12, '08

The Platform Rush of ’08: Extending Social Platforms to the Open Web

If the Platform Rush of ’07 was about creating APIs for third party developers to build applications on social networks, the Platform Rush of ’08 is about extending those platforms to the rest of the open web. Before May of 2007, it was impossible for third parties to build anything on...

Inside Facebook | more posts | 58 days | Mon., May 12, '08

MicroHoo: The Social Network That Could Have Been

Over the course of the many weeks of on-again, off-again MicroHoo madness, I did a fair bit of pontificating and speculating of my own about the would-be deal. After all, it was THE Bay Area topic of conversation (for one brief moment we all put our Facebook speculation on hold -- I am so pleased...

VentureBlog | more posts | 58 days | Mon., May 12, '08

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