Thursday, November 01, 2007

Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Be Common APIs For Building Social A

This is very interesting.. They've got major career-oriented SNS sites like LinkedIn and salesforce.com to personal ones like Friendster and hi5... and of course their own orkut. Not sure what Oracle's role is in this... the backend DB used for this is Oracle?

This is obviously Google's way of countering ever-growing Facebook.. instead of creating or promoting an SNS site of their own, why not create a platform for all of them. Nice concept. Let's see how well they'll do..

Kinda reminds me of when Google Base came out. There was a lot of hype and people were talking about how it was going to change the way the Internet works and all but haven't heard much about it since..

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