Tag Archives: OpenSocial

So we wanted a middleware for social networks? Google OpenSocial is just that.

While I’ve been a bit behind on my buzz tapping for the week, I have been paying some attention to Google’s OpenSocial technology, which appears to be an implementation of the web 2.0 middleware concept that I described a couple of a weeks ago.
This technology may solve the “eggs in one basket” problem for web [...]

Web 2.0 Middleware – Eliminate the need for social network platform dependency

Yesterday I wrote about history bracing to repeat itself by forcing developers to pick one widget API over another for social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, and others. Facebook is the only platform that has a truly open API for widget developers at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to develop third-party [...]