This is starting to look pretty ridiculous, imho
The alliance now presents a powerful counterweight to Facebook, which, after opening up its site to developers last spring, has persuaded thousands of them to create programs for its users. The addition of MySpace, the world’s largest social network with 110 million active members, and Bebo, the No. 1 site in Britain with 39 million active users, could also put pressure on Facebook to drop its own standard and join the alliance, called OpenSocial.
“OpenSocial is going to be become the de facto standard for developers right out of the gate,” said Chris DeWolfe, chief executive of MySpace, in a press conference at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. “It will have access to 200 million users, making it way bigger than any other platform out there.”
MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook - New York Times
What about niche social (content related) networks like NovelMaker.com. How can developers be encouraged to ehance the social and intellectual interaction between authors and readers? Steve Weinstein
ReplyDeleteGreat question -- I believe there is great value in collaboration; I just get tired of the fading signal-to-noise ratio in the mainstream press coverage of "social networking" memes.
ReplyDeletePeter, I'd appreciate your taking a look at www.NovelMaker.com. We will be undertaking a significant upgrade of the comments and discussion board areas and would appreciate having your thoughts.
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