Comments on: OpenSocial? Google Cortés

By: tecosystems » Software Science vs Software Evolution, or Software Science and Software Evolution?

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:39:33 +0000

[...] perceived by upstarts like Facebook and MySpace, which compelled them to adapt Cortés’ plan B. The lesson? Even smart, well run software organizations – which I would argue Google, IBM and [...]

By: Andy Fundinger

Andy Fundinger — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:48:37 +0000

Hmm, don’t know about the ToS, but the Twitter Facebook app does have a big honking button to enable setting status from Twitter.

I’m doing some work with a social networking site at present and the effect is obviously pretty significant. Where we would have done a Facebook App we’ll probably do OpenSocial first. Since we don’t need to own their social network to build our business this is a win for us as we’ll opt out of that part of the game and focus on our core functionality.

By: Danno

Danno — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:03:52 +0000

Fuck Facebook, I don’t even *want* to be on there, it’s like being on AOL in 1997.

Those fucking ASSHOLES won’t even let me update my Facebook status from Twitter. It’s against their terms of service to even try!

God, sometimes I feel like I oughta quit my job and build my open social networking app/protocol just out of spite.