●GOOGLE　OPEN SOCIAL　戦略

Open Social に参加している企業

●Google Code

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

●グローバルSNSは実現するか？

http://blogs.itmedia.co.jp/speedfeed/2007/11/snsgoogle_opens_276c.html?ref=atom

●Googleの“OpenSocial”の全貌が明らかに

http://zen.seesaa.net/article/64063285.html

※OpenSocial API Documentation
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/

●Open Social : ソーシャルネットワークを、どのウェブサイトにも
http://www.goodpic.com/mt/archives2/2007/11/open_social.html

●Google's embrace of the open Social Web

http://www.socialmedia.biz/2007/11/googles-embrace.html

※海外ではopen socialに対して批判的な意見もありますね。

●Google's OpenSocial looks more like hype than substance

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/11/04/googles_opensocial_looks_more_like_hype_than_substance.html

I can't see what's open about it. Sure anybody can write apps for it, but anybody can write apps for Facebook, or, indeed, Windows. There's more to come, but at the moment, it looks just as proprietary as the Facebook system it more-or-less copies. The main difference being that Google appears to own and control the OpenSocial container/API in which the widgets run. But should it feel the need, Facebook can make its system just as "open" as Google's, simply by allowing other sites to host Facebook apps..........

if there's a need to transfer personal data between social networking sites, there's a much simpler and easier way to do than OpenSocial. A microformat like a suitably-expanded hCard would do the job perfectly well in an industry standard way, similar to the vCard standard, RFC 2426. (Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web makes the same point in OpenSocial: Three Big Concerns.)