It's the stupid, data

I read an interesting post today on O’Reilly Radar: OpenSocial: It’s the data, stupid
Here’s a quick excerpt…

Let’s start with the first one. If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. …

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