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A comment on The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - "destined for the dustbin".

Re:The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - ... by axod on Monday September 22, 2008 @03:33AM (#310928)
"Like every other product Google has released since search and ads, OpenSocial has been a dud."

This is just plain wrong. Although maybe some of the issue comes when you compare things to search+ads. When compared against those, perhaps things look 'dud'. But taken alone they are successes.

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Re:The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - ... by omouse on Monday September 22, 2008 @12:00PM (#311265)
MySpace uses OpenSocial: http://developer.myspace.com/Community/forums/default.aspx?G...

MySpace has how many users again? Even if a tiny percentage of them interacts with OpenSocial, I would hardly call it a dud.

Also:

"There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING."

That is a lot of users that someone can reach with an OpenSocial app. If this is failure, I want some.

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