Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web - Marc Andreessen
In a nutshell, Open Social is an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers:
- “Containers” — social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, and Friendster, and…
- “Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within containers — for example, the kinds of applications built by iLike, Flixster, Rockyou, and Slide.
Excellent Questions, of course:
What does this mean for today’s Facebook app developers?
What does this mean to web sites that aren’t Facebook apps?
Are people really going to maintain multiple sets of front-end pages for their web sites for Facebook, Open Social, etc.?
What does this mean for Facebook?
Is this good for the web?
How will Ning support Open Social?
Where’s MySpace?
Where’s Yahoo?
You mentioned that Open Social containers can implement additional Javascript or web services APIs — won’t that break compatibility?
A definite must read to see Marc’s thorough analysis on Open Social.
