First impressions from Google OpenSocial

Disclaimer: I like Google, I use their products and all that. But I, like many others, were expecting really Open and really Social, but it turned out ...

The result was a platform for creating extremely simple JavaScript applications. Look in the examples , it will immediately become clear.

Previously, such applications could only be created for Facebook , very soon - in many social networks, Google partners. Well, you heard about them from the announcements of OpenSocial.
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So, Google has undermined my faith in all holy “Open”. For everything is open only at first glance, and if you get a grasp, everything is tied to Google.

For example, if I want to support this technology and use it in my social network, they immediately hint that the “OpenSocial apps” usually include Google Gadgets , so I “will need” will definitely add their support.

In general, the impression is that Google simply opened interfaces for creating applications to its Orkut and API for wider implementation of its Gadgets to other sites. No OpenID , which everyone counted on, with Fitzpatrick joining Google, doesn't even smell here. All technologies from Google.

I do not undertake to evaluate their technologies, like GData , which they tulit everywhere. The question is not whether they are good or bad. I was just upset that everyone was waiting for Open, but it turned out as always ...

Now, he will see how the good “don't be evil” Google entangles more and more social networks with its tentacles, crushing them under its technological basis. Well, okay, in the meantime, we will build our own, alternate reality. :)

Nothing, if at the very end I give a tiny link to my blog ? ;)