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OpenGadgets just fine

I still find all of the attacks on OpenSocial to be naive. Did anyone ever really think
each company would open up it's social graph? Apparently so, but I certainly
didn't. You really thought Google had the power to dictate that all these
independent actors open their data? One step at a time! Perhaps I've never been
disappointed because I never conceived of OpenSocial as anything but
OpenGadgets. I don't think the importance of OpenGadgets should be overlooked,
however. Google Gadgets is a generally sound approach to standardizing gadget
making using html and JavaScript. It's certainly a big step up from learning some
new proprietary markup language invented by Zuckerburg (sp?) & co.

Perhaps this ties in to my general disdain for Facebook. Sure, it's a heck of a lot
better than MySpace, but is that really saying much? It's still a social network,
which is just inherently cheesy and doesn't solve any interesting technical problem
whatsoever. I find it shocking there's talk of people leaving Google to go to
Facebook. Maybe I'm a tech snob, but old Sergey and Larry actually solved a really
challenging technical problem at Google. It makes sense to me they have legions
of programmers rallying behind them. Facebook? This guy was a freshman at
Harvard who knew a little php. I just don't get it.

I'll stop soon, but there's all this excitement about them building a platform. Come
on. We really need another proprietary platform? There's a platform I've come to
know and love that's simply an astounding place for innovation called the
"Internet." It's really cool. It's really open. People like Facebook because there's
money to be made. From a technology perspective, it's just not interesting.

Finally, Foo Camp is not a conference on "open social networking." It's a
conference about the latest innovations in technology. Maybe this year's theme has
something to do with the current social networking hype, but that's certainly not
the general theme of the conference.

-Adam
http://www.littleshoot.org

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