Would An OpenSocial API “Matter” If Everyone Who Mattered Was On Facebook?
Just a theoretical question to lob at you before the weekend: in all the clamour around an OpenSocial API, and how the blogosphere is polarizing it (hyping it) to be a Facebook vs. Google and Superfriends cage-match, when would an OpenSocial API *not* matter? How about if everyone who “mattered” was already on Facebook, and was experiencing enough lock-down that they didn’t want to move social networks, and simply don’t care about the amazing cross-social applications that are developed across MySpace, Friendster, Oracle, Salesforce, and so on — because they simply don’t have friends or identities across such networks … yes, for the sake of such an example, let’s say that they either didn’t use, or didn’t care about the data and information stored through their email accounts either. Now, to be sure that’s an extreme example of things, but I only use it to illustrate that voices like Don Dodge and Eric Schonfeld are worth listening to: the movement towards an open set of standards so s
