Open Graph: Facebook's Play to Dominate the "Social Web"
Facebook's new Open Graph would position it as the default social engine on the web.
Marc Andreessen to Join Facebook Board?
In what would be a big move for the company, Kara Swisher is reporting this morning that Silicon Valley luminary Marc Andreessen has been invited and has verbally agreed to […]
Facebook is the new AOL
Earlier in the week, I made a comment in passing in a post about Vimeo:
you do know that Facebook is AOL 2.0, right?
A few peopl
Avoiding Walled Gardens on the Internet
I occasionally get requests to join private social networking sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook. I always politely decline. I understand the appeal of private social networking, and I mean no disrespect to the people who send invites. But it’s just not for me.
I feel very strongly that we
The lesson I take from this is that no matter how wonderful your walled garden is, it can’t compete with the public, open internet. Jason Kottke explains:As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else, individuals and companies can develop applications which can interoperate with one another through open and freely available tools, protocols, and interfaces. It’s called the internet and it’s more compelling than AOL was in 1994 and Facebook in 2007.
Faced with competition from this open web, AOL lost. Running a closed service with custom content and interfaces was no match for the wild frontier of the web. Maybe if they’d done some things differently, they would have fared better, but they still would have lost. In competitive markets, open and messy trumps closed and controlled in the long run. Everything you can do on Facebook is possible using a loose coalition of blogging software, IM clients, email, Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader, etc. Sure, it’s not as automatic or easy, but anyone can participate. The number of things to see and do on the web outnumbers the number of things you can see and do on Facebook by several orders of magnitude – and always will.
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OpenSocial Is Doomed - Webmonkey
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OpenSocial Hacked AgainTechCrunch
The same person who hacked the RockYou OpenSocial application on Plaxo just 45 minutes after it was publicly released is at it again.
This time, he claims to have easily accessed the iLike applica...
blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning
OpenSocial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board of Directors | Meta
PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 30, 2008 — Facebook today announced that Marc Andreessen has joined its board of directors. Currently co-founder and chairman at
Where is the OpenSocial Revolution?
Yahoo points out that OpenSocial is a year old. The collection of APIs is a write-once approach to bringing the Facebook platform to any social website. Developers have not clamoured to develop OpenSocial apps. What’s the deal? While Google was the instigator of OpenSocial, it found many supporters in fellow Facebook competitors: MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, […]
blog.pmarca.com: Report from the front: Tonight's launch of Open Social
Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning
OpenSocial Foundation Moves Standards Work to W3C Social Web Activity
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
OpenSocial Foundation Moves Standards Work to W3C Social Web Activity
Facebook Declines to Join the OpenSocial Foundation
Facebook pledges support for open-source standards, just not for the OpenSocial Foundation. Microsoft remains undecided.