The Industry Standard - Facebook will adopt OpenSocial - Comments

The site is off-line so much

Jack Powers — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:13:34 -0800

The site is off-line so much they'd be crazy to add mountains of new traffic.

According to the Google it

Juris Lakutis326819 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:33:31 -0800

According to the Google it self: "There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING."
It seems logical to me, that FB will follow the trend to adopt the OpenSocial and offer it as a tool of choice to the developers who are willing to use it. Facebook has already taken its steps to help developers by, for example, opening up its javascript library.
I recon adoption of OpenSocial would not hurt FB, but would make it even more attractive in the eyes of developers. Even though Microsoft is its shareholder.

Unless Facebook has an

Rob Comperchio — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:04:27 -0800

Unless Facebook has an extremely fine-tuned filter to discriminate one opinion from all the others, open social will not work. Critical mass will bring the site to a grinding halt. Without the ability to scale accordingly, (and whose qualified to determine that), just pouring ideas and notions into the bucket will only cause mass confusion.
No to OpenSocial...Maybe to Openness (aka Profit Sharing)

Let's think about this for a

Todd Regan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:10:26 -0800

Let's think about this for a moment. Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. While that means absolutely nothing, it could be enough influence to keep Facebook from doing anything that supports a Google initiative. As a betting man, and hazy oracle, I'm throwing my virtual money behind Facebook staying away from OpenSocial (at least for now).

However, I fully expect Facebook to continue to support 3rd party widgets and to further monetize the site by creating content partnerships which pay Facebook back. We may also see Facebook create a user advertising program where revenues are shared between users and Facebook.

That's OpenSocial "No" - Openness "Yes" from this Dusty Sage.

Facebook will adopt OpenSocial

Garrick Hileman — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:25:39 -0800

As of the closing date, which was the date in which the prediction was to be judged, Facebook had not adopted OpenSocial or made any announcements to do so in the future. The community bet against this prediction and the community was right.. --The Industry Standard

As the pressure for rapid growth mounts under the watchful eyes of the world, Facebook must find ways to try new ways to diversify its portfolio.

One way to do this is to support Google's OpenSocial API. This will allow Facebook's already large developer base to expand into a huge ring of influence.