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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/11/16/opensocket/

  • Dan Lester · 2 years ago
    Glad you find OpenSocket interesting. It's only really an academic exercise right now, and we're perfectly happy to respond to any concerns from Facebook or Google. For that reason, we have not released the source code for the time being.

    If it's designed to 'say' anything to the big boys, it's only that the possibilities of techology will prevail in the end...! I'm sure all players are smart enough not to try to restrict their technology artificially for commercial reasons.

    Our main driver at the moment is in ensuring the success of more generic open source projects. It is important that containers and apps are built consistently going forward. More details of these projects (under Apache most likely) will emerge soon!
  • bob · 2 years ago
    does anyone know any easy way to turn a facebook application into an opensocial gadget?
  • James Gillmore · 2 years ago
    Yes, we're almost done with a platform a lot better than Open Socket. Leave a comment on my Mashable page if interested.

    James
  • Cameron Chapman · 2 years ago
    It's pretty much inevitable that someone, somewhere will find a way around just about any barriers placed on pretty much any technology. The real question is how the technology providers will respond to their system being hacked. Some embrace it and succeed, others try to stop it and generally only create animosity among their users and never really manage to block it anyway.
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