Archive for the ‘Open Social’ Category

Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Connect Is the Future

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Read an interesting article where the CEO of Facebook discusses their take on the future of the  social web ( a direct competitor to Google's OpenSocial platform). OpenSocial has had some challenges out of the gate including it's first application being quickly hacked in just 45 minutes. Mark Zuckerberg discussed the evolution of the social ...

What is OpenSocial All About?

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Joseph Smarr from Plaxo does a great job describing out how it all works in one presentation: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYnlH5FXz0&eurl=http://sites.google.com/site/io/opensocial-openid-and-oauth-oh-my] You can view the slides used in the presentation here. The future of the web is social, there will be no differentiation between the web and the social web. Facebook is working on a social web ...

Adding Value to Social Media Sites and Your Network

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Why are current Social Network sites' accessibility controlled a simple switch - an on and off switch of permissibility if you will? The major players in the field MySpace, Facebook, even LinkedIn - all have a common theme in whether or not you deem this person a connection / friend or not. If you do ...