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  • Dec. 18th, 2007 at 7:57 AM
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Writing about social network fatigue around the world on O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/decentralizing.html

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Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: Open Platforms and the Social Graph

  • Nov. 6th, 2007 at 12:14 PM
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Slides up, more later! Talk went well!

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OpenSocial at Barcamp Berlin

  • Nov. 4th, 2007 at 1:47 PM
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Yesterday at BarCamp Berlin, Lukas Rosenstock, Christian Scholz, and I hosted a session on the social graph and OpenSocial. It was a very full room (~60 people) where we mainly led a discussion around OpenSocial. We started out by giving background on why opening the social graph is becoming so important (ala our Web 2.0 Summit presentation) and then Christian presented on OpenSocial itself.

By the end of the hour session, we had generated a list of questions about OpenSocial which we all were able to answer to varying degrees. I volunteered to blog these questions as the entire group in the hope that Google and others will answer them. If nothing else, I'll track down Patrick Chanezon when he speaks about OpenSocial at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin in a few days.

All the questions asked:

  • What is Google's role in OpenSocial? Is OpenSocial actually open, or does the community need to build "OpenOpenSocial"?

  • What does it take to make my site OpenSocial friendly? How do things like Microformats and FOAF relate?

  • How can I support OpenSocial APIs (e.g. get friends) without allowing the applications to be run directly on my site?

  • How does or will OpenSocial address social network portability?

  • How will OpenSocial application management evolve. Will it really be "write once, run everywhere" or will different containers impose policies that cause an application to still need container specific programming. For example, container A gives 5mb of data storage whereas container B only gives 100kb.

  • How will OpenSocial impact spam and abuse? Will it become more prevalent in a distributed fashion?

  • How does data storage work? Can an application share data between containers?

  • How does OpenSocial address internationalization issues?

  • What Google products is OpenSocial going to create? Why did they do it beyond just disrupting Facebook?

  • How does OpenSocial work with mobile?

  • What business model changes will adoption of OpenSocial lead to?

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