Open Social
Okay I know this is the band wagon, and this is all yesterdays news, but I couldn’t help blogging about Google’s Open Social. I know it’s been awhile since I have posted anything new, but I have been swamped with launching a new platform. ZDnet’s Robin Harris hits on an interesting thought about why Microsoft won the deal with Facebook - that is was a “bluff”on the part of Google to get Microsoft to throw a bunch of money at Facebook. I agree that 240 million is a small amount for either Microsoft or Google, and I think Harris is right that Google didn’t really want the deal because they had the plans for Open Social ready to reveal the following week to steal the thunder away from the Microsoft/Facebook deal - and they way I see it - it worked. There are a lot of big companies, including Myspace that is going to support the Open Social movement.
A friend of mine and I were talking about all these big happenings and it’s like a big tug of war. The good thing about this tug of war is that the social web is going to greatly benefit by the results. Working in the social networking industry it continues to amaze me how fast the web and development of social applications are moving. Making it more open and enhancing broad scale collaboration will only speed that process up even more.
