Comments on: Open(Social) Will Win ; and now Privacy? http://benlog.com/articles/2007/11/02/opensocial-will-win-and-now-privacy/ crypto applied to public policy Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ben http://benlog.com/articles/2007/11/02/opensocial-will-win-and-now-privacy/#comment-153449 ben Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:00:04 +0000 http://benlog.com/articles/2007/11/02/opensocial-will-win-and-now-privacy/#comment-153449 Notice that I didn't say that Google had to win, but that OpenSocial would win. I suppose Facebook could create a competing OpenFBSocial, with a different API that others can adopt..... and maybe they would give OpenSocial a run for its money. Now, if OpenSocial does get serious marketshare, the key interesting issue is what will Google do with it? I suspect some kind of easy pluggable API for ads, so they can hook into that whole world automatically. Notice that I didn’t say that Google had to win, but that OpenSocial would win. I suppose Facebook could create a competing OpenFBSocial, with a different API that others can adopt….. and maybe they would give OpenSocial a run for its money.

Now, if OpenSocial does get serious marketshare, the key interesting issue is what will Google do with it? I suspect some kind of easy pluggable API for ads, so they can hook into that whole world automatically.

]]> By: Anonymous http://benlog.com/articles/2007/11/02/opensocial-will-win-and-now-privacy/#comment-152145 Anonymous Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:49:55 +0000 http://benlog.com/articles/2007/11/02/opensocial-will-win-and-now-privacy/#comment-152145 Google doesn't have to win. If Facebook creates open user APIs (OpenFacebook), users can opt into offering private info to each application or systematically. It's a pretty straightforward "mate" to Google's "check" because it's an easy dev tweak and brings to bear Facebook's existing 50M users. Google doesn’t have to win.

If Facebook creates open user APIs (OpenFacebook), users can opt into offering private info to each application or systematically.

It’s a pretty straightforward “mate” to Google’s “check” because it’s an easy dev tweak and brings to bear Facebook’s existing 50M users.

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