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Eller det siger rygterne i hvert fald – og det lyder meget spændende. TechCrunch melder nemlig, at Google har afholdt et hemmeligt møde, hvor omdrejningspunktet har været Facebook.
Google’s goal – to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%.
The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time.
Det må betragtes som værende et modtræk til lukkede sites (walled gardens) som Facebook og 99,9% af alle andre sites på nettet.
Det er er så interessant her, er jo nemlig at de vil åbne op for at alle kan trække på deres oplysninger og de grundbyggesten de vil lave i deres API’er.
…suggests that Google might try to standardize its social graph APIs, so that other companies could also use them as a way of giving third party access to their data. The result would be that third parties would be able “to both push and pull data, into and out of Google and non-Google applications.”
This potentially goes a lot further than Facebook’s platform, since this is much more in line with the small pieces loosely joined philosophy of the web, which looks outwards not inwards as Facebook does. Rather then applications having to congregate around one company’s data and walled gardened destination (Facebook), data (Google and others’) can reach out to applications anywhere on the web (or even the desktop). Sounds a lot like Tim O’Reilly’s concept of the Web as OS.
Det bliver meget spændende at se hvad de har tænkt sig, og om det rent faktisk bliver helt åbent.
På Read/Write web håber de at Google vil bruge OpenID, men det er nu nok tvivlsomt i første omgang, selvom Google netop (vistnok) har ansat manden bag OpenID, Brad Fitzpatrick.
Selvsamme Brad skriver nogle meget interessante tanker på sin hjemmeside – om Thoughts on the Social Graph. Det vil jeg nu skrive lidt mere om i en anden post.
Via: TechCrunch, The Social Web
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