October 31, 2007
The long awaited "Facebook killer" from Google is here

Google's long anticipated plan to "out open" Facebook begins to materialize with the OpenSocial API. LinkedIn, Orkut, Ning, SixApart - all companies facing the risk of a Facebook squeeze - are launch partners.
The countdown to the first "OpenSocial" Facebook application has begun. And one guesses that such an app would be considered in violation of Facebook TOS - so we'll see tons of these pop up - in the same spirit as P2P file sharing - until Facebook just adapts.
Marc Andreesen's post seems the most comprehensive.

Posted by Claus at October 31, 2007 06:14 PM | TrackBack (0)
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