666 posts tagged Google OpenSocial

Revolutionary activity may be needed in the social networking space soon to help make sure that all the key players make sure social networking standards continue to become more open, more transparent, and always *user centric*.

I’ve called Facebook a gated-community because honestly it works behind a gate. One enters the gate by registering, and then Facebook begins working. (And the “gate” analogy is a small nod to Google, the brand that works best when the Internet is open).

Google Introduces Friends Connect May 16th, 2008 Google, following plans announced by two biggest social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook, has launched their own open social engine called Friends Connect.  Friends Connect allows website owners to add social networking functionalities without any complicated programming.

Carl Icahn, an erstwhile Yahoo shareholder wants to fire the entire Yahoo Board. In his letter to Yahoo, he claims buying $2.5 billion worth of Yahoo stocks to push his agenda. On the other hand, Facebook is accusing Google for invading user privacy with its Friend Connect.

MySpace, Facebook en Google hebben recentelijk allemaal een service ontwikkeld om contact te kunnen leggen met de gebruikers van de hiervoor genoemde websites. Google heeft van de week de nieuwe service Friend Connect gelanceerd waarmee iedereen op zijn of haar website een eigen social network kan bouwen.

Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect In a surprise move, Facebook decided to block Google’s Friend Connect service announced just a few days ago. Google’s Friend connect came on the heels of Facebook Connect announced on May 9, 2008.

Google is releasing a social tool across the web named “Friend Connect”. This is the latest announcement from internet companies to break down the social walls. In Friend Connect, site owners can enable blogging and feedback forms by using a small code on their website.

The OpenSocial blog has a good summary of  Google’s recently announced Friend Connect in the context of OpenSocial: … up until now, becoming a container - adding new social applications for your users - has meant having to provide your own source of personal and social information.

Facebook just pulled a Netscape. What the hell are they thinking? They just flipped off Google and others in this openness war - how? by being closed. Most of the Facebook kids were not around when Netscape blew it to Microsoft. Now Facebook is making a blunder to fight Google on a frontal basis.

This is hilarious. Google ignores MySpace. Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect. Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t