Comments on: OpenSocial: Future for Facebook, Concerns

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This Week In SEO - 11/9/07 - TheVanBlog — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:28:13 +0000

[...] OpenSocial: Future for Facebook, Concerns [...]

By: Neil Turner

Neil Turner — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:33:18 +0000

I have to say that having an open-platform to share data amongst your social networking tools makes perfect sense. Why have multiple profiles and multiple logins when you can have 1.

In response to some of the comments above – personally I think Facebook is far,far better than myspace. Just my opinion though.

By: lawrence goldstein

lawrence goldstein — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:21:14 +0000

Facebook is toast! this is a killer app. Myspace and Google together is a unbeatable one two punch. Besides, Facebook is still on a learning curve as can be seen by how they are constantly changing their developers documentation and rules for conducting business on the platform not to mention apps disappearing into thin air. Google/Myspace is the gold standard and will implement OpenSocial much more smoothly. Facebook is a walled garden and it indiscriminately picks and chooses which apps get high visibility while it tweaks it’s platform to keep other apps from suceeding.also they deny apps submission into their directory on a whim. they’re a bunch of nuvo rich wannabe stuckup spoiled brats who thought they had the world on a string. now they must eat humble pie and bow down and kiss the ring that is Google/Myspace. Oh well,so much for Facebooks 15 billion dollar valuation. they’ll be lucky if they can get 1 billion now. why develope on Facebook which claims to have 50 million members when you can develope on Google’s/Myspace platform which has 200 million members…do the math. Facebook is toast!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:46:37 +0000

The same comment caught my eye as well. I agree people aren’t going to automatically leave Facebook because of an API. However from a developer’s perspective if you’re going to write an app would you choose to write it so it works on one network or on many networks?

People won’t leave Facebook because they can’t get a specific app, but they probably will look at another network because of that same specific app. And in time they might find themselves on spending more time on those other sites.

It only takes a few of the cool kids to decide to migrate before the masses follow.

Concerns or no it’s probably in Facebook’s best interest to join OpenSocial.

By: Dining Tables

Dining Tables — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:14:21 +0000

As a user for who all this is just bells and whistles, I am an user of Facebook as it is, and unless something changes radically, I am unlikely to migrate from them.

By: minicix

minicix — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:10:37 +0000

Facebook will do whatever is good for the company and the best part is that we-the users will profit from this.

By: GoWFB

GoWFB — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:50:03 +0000

I think increasingly, Google is exercising control and not leadership.

A bunch of bloggers angry with google these days, came up with the Google page rank victim buttons. I thought that was really funny!

By: db

db — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:38:49 +0000

Sounds like someone is trying to cover his bets (sorry investment). But he’s right its better to be a small part of something that is big rather than something that disappears in five years time.

By: vidi

vidi — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:14:22 +0000

The basic approach is to present a platform for people to meet. It should be simple yet satisfying. Google as a search engine has this capability where it finds the background and power to get into other areas such as opensocials or youtube. In short, power draws power.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:09:00 +0000

I think Facebook really needs to weigh it’s options here and seriously think about joining.