It’s platforms & APIs everywhere
In competition with Facebook APIs, here is the progress report which states that google is releasing the applications built on Open Social API running on orkut. Google is loosing to social networks and there is a buzz that it wants to pick up Bebo for $1b. Myspace also unveiled it’s developer platform 2 days back. And Yahoo is also doing the same through its MyBlogLog API
Marshall Kirpatrick feels MySpace Platform aims to pick up where Facebook left off and FaceReviews carries a detailed comparison of MySpace with Facebook platform. Whereas, Eweek questions the data portability.
Facebook is gearing up to the situation and trying to make its application more intelligent by punishing stupid applications
Related posts:
- John Hagel on Social Networks as platforms of joint creation
- Gephi > the open source graph visualization engine > Like Photoshop™ for graphs.
- Clark Harris’s [Silent Clark] Social Media Experiment
- Danah Boyd on – Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data
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