All you people at Google listen up!!!

You need to build a powerful Wordpress plugin for Open Social. And I mean powerful!!!

If you get an OpenSocial Wordpress plugin, the weight of the blogosphere will crush FaceBook.

Uhhh, we need an OpenSocial plugin pretty dern fast too. Can’t Sergey get someone on that pretty quick? You better do it fast otherwise social networking will become VHS vs BetaMax.

Come on!!! Hurry up!!! This is an emergency!

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.; BONN, Germany; TAOYUAN, Taiwan; SCHAUMBERG, Ill., December 12, 2007 — A broad alliance of leading technology and pharmaceutical companies today joined forces to announce the development of Betazoid, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for innovation in cancer cures. Google, Pfizer, Amgen, Merck, Genentech and others have collaborated on the development of Betazoid through the Open Cancer Alliance, a multinational alliance of technology and pharmaceutical industry leaders.

This alliance shares a common goal of fostering innovation on cancer cures. By providing cancer researchers a new level of openness that enables them to work more collaboratively, Betazoid will accelerate the pace at which new and compelling cancer drugs are made available.

Thirty-four companies have formed the Open Cancer Alliance, which aims to develop technologies that will significantly lower the cost of developing and distributing cancer cures. The Betazoid platform is the first step in this direction — a fully integrated platform that includes: Wiki, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Instant Messaging, and Email.

Betazoid holds the promise of unprecedented benefits for cancer researchers, developers and manufacturers of pharmaceutical services and devices. Betazoid celebrates the ethic of the “Beta” — in which product development is quick and iterative. “Why wait for seven years for regulatory approval for a perfected cancer drug when Betazoid can enable a beta cure in months if not weeks”, said Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt. “Today’s announcement is more ambitious than any single product that the press has been speculating about. Our vision is that the powerful platform we’re unveiling will power thousands of different drugs and cures.”

“While Google’s core search markets are maturing, they are focused on breaking new ground”, said Piper Jaffrey analyst Jean Kim. “Open Social, Android, and now the revolutionary Betazoid
platform demonstrate Google’s commitment to innovation and Alliance Creation” he said.

Racist against spades? How can you be racist toward an inanimate object??

Reading this article now confirms that these social networking battles are far from over and the one that manages to aggregate the community of both users and developers from both their own networks and also manage to draw users from other social networks may be the eventual winner. Widgets are now the star players of the game.

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Bebo’s embrace of Facebook says a lot about the true state of competition between Google and Facebook. The fact that Bebo will have Facebook apps running on Bebo before OpenSocial apps indicates where its priorities lie….

Yahoo’s still at the pole position with a few of their core assets, like email or im.. and people want Yahoo’s socgraph data - loyal users for over a decade…

That said, it’s a matter of our own switching development priorities — in that, if we take to clone (ie., make compatible of) our api to fb’s spec with little or no modifications to the app developers), there’s better chance for us to have a reasonable count of apps for our launch.. whereas if we focus on OpenSocial first, we face more uncertainty (for our launch timeframe). Thus, in light of this, you’re right in that there’s apparent lack of apps for OpenSocial, but the snub if any is actually to both, though imho it isn’t really the app developers to blame…

That said, and as you also pointed out, bebo (and others, ourselves included) still planning to support OpenSocial.. so it’s not really grievancing on Google/OpenSocial for what they already contributed (quite positively in fact) to the social networking market and community, but the touch of disappointment was, unfortunately, quite real.

Thus, in all, it’s more about (Google’s) managing expectations after the (over)hype.. if they had not taken their marketing pitch too high (to belittle Facebook, by trying to reduce it to a mere OpenSocial Container to-be… but given Msft as the backer, obviously Facebook would never want to be just yet another container.. that said, Facebook has yet to do more (than what they’ve announced today on their wiki pages)…… /ac.

CNet’s NewsBurst RSS reader joins Deadpool. Where’s the update on this one?

bebo made this move simply because it opens up thousands of apps to their platform and makes them an easy way to increase exposure for every facebook app out there.

Again, that’s why this isn’t a snub at Google - bebo still plans to support OpenSocial, they were just trick enough to also be the first to also support facebook developers (something OpenSocial would have been smart to do!!)

Thanks for spamming Techcrunch to promote your “website”