Comments on: OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing

By: Where to Buy Stemulite

Where to Buy Stemulite — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:38:43 +0000

I did a Google News search thinking I could drop 2 or 3 news articles on you from WSJ or NW or whatever. Turns out you are right! Every bit of news about OpenSocial emanated from tech this and tech that.

That being said, OpenSocial is real. Google just has to figure out how to drive the marketing side.

By: Acai Berry Select

Acai Berry Select — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:34:59 +0000

Still waiting to read about OpenSocial anywhere but in tech focused blogs…

By: Games

Games — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:33:16 +0000

I love what Andy Wong said about this article. If you stop and think about the number…do they make sense? So many people leap to believing what they read. I love it when someone stops and says, “Hold on…”

Well done.

By: OpenSocial Turns One: The Presentation From The Party

OpenSocial Turns One: The Presentation From The Party — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:14:45 +0000

[...] one year since the service launched to fight Facebook’s exploding platform product, and the main companies behind OpenSocial are holding an all day press and developer event at MySpace’s San Francisco [...]

By: Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More | Blogging | Business Blogging | Make Money Blogging | Web News |

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:44 +0000

[...] but largely underappreciated scale of these new Web application models was last week’s TechCrunch piece on the progress of Google’s OpenSocial, an increasingly successful model for creating portable social networking applications that will [...]

By: OpenSource Blog

OpenSource Blog — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:42:04 +0000

Open Social – erster Überblick, Videos, Links……

Aktuell schauen wir uns gerade Open Social genauer an um zu sehen, ob wir eine Integration ins papaya CMS implementieren wollen.
In Kürze gibt es dazu hier noch ein Update mit weiteren Informationen (Argumente pro/contra, technische Bedenken/Probleme …

By: OpenSocial平台用户达到3.5亿 | SilenceWolf

OpenSocial平台用户达到3.5亿 | SilenceWolf — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:36:19 +0000

[...] （via TechCrunch） [...]

By: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - The 3 Laws of Platform Adoption: Why Developers Choose Platforms and What it Means to You

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:37:06 +0000

[...] proposition of their platform and hammer it home. Good examples of these approaches include how Google has been hammering home the ‘reach’ benefit of adopting OpenSocial or how Erlang evangelists have been pitching it as a solution to the multicore crises given that [...]

By: OpenSocial pode alcançar 500 milhões de usuários até o final de Setembro « NetSySoft

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:07:04 +0000

[...] Fonte: TechCrunch [...]

By: Have Facebook Developers Been Flocking To OpenSocial? | Latest Technology News - Business News And Expert Advice

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:46:50 +0000

[...] (GOOG) OpenSocial recently added Friendster to the group, bringing its total user base to about 350 million people – almost four times [...]

By: The Inquirer ES : OpenSocial alcanzará a 500 millones de usuarios en septiembre

The Inquirer ES : OpenSocial alcanzará a 500 millones de usuarios en septiembre — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:09:31 +0000

[...] TechCrunch Más información sobre OpenSocial [...]

By: OpenSocial pode alcançar 500 milhões de usuários até o final de Setembro/08 - Google Discovery

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:04:28 +0000

[...] Via: TechCrunch [...]

By: links for 2008-08-24 « SOLiDrAiNbOw Notes

links for 2008-08-24 « SOLiDrAiNbOw Notes — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:51:19 +0000

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By: OpenSocial gets to 350 Million Users, growing, but not enough. | Widgets Lab

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:00:14 +0000

[...] OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing Technorati Tags: OpenSocial,OpenSocial Foundation,Multi Social Network application platform,OpenSocial vs Facebook [...]

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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:51:41 +0000

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By: links for 2008-08-21 « SOLiDrAiNbOw Notes

links for 2008-08-21 « SOLiDrAiNbOw Notes — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:41:12 +0000

[...] OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing [...]

By: Tecneira

Tecneira — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:40:32 +0000

[...] parcerias na época do lançamento, hoje reúne mais de 350 milhões de usuários (gráfico acima), segundo o TechCrunch. Em breve, deve atingir a marca de 500 milhões com a entrada de mais quatro sites, que serão [...]

By: chris

chris — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:53:05 +0000

I saw a demo of Zembly at a Meetup recently and it lived up to the expectations: GUI tools and web forms that generated an app in the course of a 5 minute presentation. Very cool. Many companies are moving to provide tools for fast app/widget development and syndication – it’ll be interesting to see how they interact with the growing audience of app users.

By: 1986 To Present » Blog Archive » Google OpenSocial 平台用户总量已达3.5亿 Google OpenSocial 平台用户总量已达3.5亿

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:44:27 +0000

[...] TechCrunch 报道,6个月前 OpenSocial 还只是一张很有希望的合作名单计划.但是这个由 Google [...]

By: OpenSocial supera los 350 millones de usuarios

OpenSocial supera los 350 millones de usuarios — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:09:06 +0000

[...] plataforma OpenSocial impulsada por Google ha crecido considerablemente en los seis meses que han pasado desde su lanzamiento, en especial desde que sus socios comenzaron a utilizar las [...]

By: Ravi Bhushan

Ravi Bhushan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:29:12 +0000

I find it surprising but nowhere on the blogosphere have I seen a mention of zembly (www.zembly.com). Its a product from SUN who apparently claim that using this will make building apps on OpenSocial, iPhone, Facebook etc. a cinch.

By: Cromwellian

Cromwellian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:54:35 +0000

Open source is not the same as open-specification. The question is, are they willing to let outsiders dictate the specification that they themselves have to adhere to? It’s one thing to dump a bunch of shovelware on the public, it’s quite another to let everyone define the API *and* stick with it.

With OpenSocial, if the spec evolves to have a new foo() method, then this becomes officially part of OpenSocial and Google has to implement it as well.

By: add unique users?

add unique users? — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:33:42 +0000

Adding unique users of different independent networks is mathematically wrong. Wenn diagram.

By: Lorian's Boot

Lorian's Boot — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:41:29 +0000

Um, yes. They’ve open-sourced their platform code.

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:42:42 +0000

Let’s do some simple calculation.

The Earth has around 5,000 million users. So 7% of total population of the Earth are using OpenSocial if they are all equally accessing the Internet. We know this is not true, and those in developed countries should have higher percentage of using Open Social.

Ask yourself, do you feel that 1 out of 10 of people you know is using OpenSocial?

In short, I would regard this article is cheap buzz.