Quotes

All / October / November

“This continues a trend of using consumer technologies to make business technologies better. From my point of view, OpenSocial is really about the widget economy we’ve seen in a short amount of time build up around social networking. OpenSocial is energizing that economy now as developers work can be translated to different contexts and platforms.” — Adam Gross (Disq)

“An open platform means no social network has any advantage over any other when it comes to third party applications. The playing field has been evened, and no one wins. Except Google. They always win.” — Mike Arrington
“These aren’t good or bad, they just serve someone’s interest without thinking about the users’ interest (at best) or counter to the users’ interest (at worst).” — Dave Winer (Disq)

“Google is simply facilitating the inter-connection of hosts (social networks) with developers (applications) with their OpenSocial APIs.” — Marc Canter (Disq)

“OpenSocial is going to be become the de facto standard for developers right out of the gate.” – Chris DeWolfe, chief executive of MySpace (Disq)

“Imho, Google has a long way to go to build the base of users and developers connected using the new protocol that is the subject of all this chest-thumping.” — Dave Winer