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	The social network platform scuffle has started

LesMuise

11-4-2007 8:27 PM

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facebook, opensocial, api, don dodge

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Exceptional review of the current & up and coming social network platforms.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4981a990-5739-4bb6-935b-b588e4bad140/F865B777-B13B-458B-AADB-B2F473A8BBC4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html" href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dondodge.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html"><DIV class="pkg" id="banner-inner" mk_i="11" sth_t="1" mk_b="1">
<H1 id="banner-header" mk_i="13" sth_t="1" mk_b="1"><A accesskey="1" href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/" mk_i="14" sth_t="1" mk_b="1">Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing</A></H1>
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	</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html"><H3 class="entry-header" mk_i="557" sth_t="1" mk_b="1">50M Facebook users don't care about OpenSocial APIs<SPAN><NOBR><IMG id="0.5360475711588761" src="http://www.madkast.com/images/madkast_icon.gif" /><A>Email This</A></NOBR></SPAN><DIV></DIV></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html"><P mk_i="564" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">There are 50 Million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will "<A target="_blank" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/confirmed-myspace-to-join-google-opensocial/" mk_i="566" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">Checkmate<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v2.27.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>" Facebook and leave them with <A target="_blank" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/facebook-your-move/" mk_i="569" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">no moves<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v2.27.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.techmeme.com/071102/h0610" mk_i="572" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">TechMeme<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v2.27.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocial is awesome and Facebook is dead. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/technology/02google.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=c40445113ebf498b&ex=1351656000&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1194002143-FPKleZ+GVPtcGPWDT3NJ0Q" mk_i="575" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">MySpace joins Google<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v2.27.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> on OpenSocial initiative. OK, surely that settles it, Facebook is <DEL mk_i="578" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">dead</DEL> toast. Nope, not in my opinion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html"><P mk_i="582" sth_t="1" mk_b="0"><STRONG mk_i="583" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">Are Facebook users going to cancel their account?</STRONG> No, I doubt it. Facebook was a runaway success long before they allowed 3rd party apps and widgets. I don't see Facbook users leaving because some widget might not be available, and I don't see widget developers abandoning Facebook just because there is a new OpenSocial API.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html"><STRONG mk_i="597" sth_t="1" mk_b="0">Facebook is about the user community</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/11/50m-facebook-us.html">Facebook has always been focused on the user community and providing a great user experience.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F865B777-B13B-458B-AADB-B2F473A8BBC4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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