It seems as though everyone wants to be both social and portable these days. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace all have recently trumpeted their latest efforts at openness. Are they really the same? In some cases — Yahoo and Google, primarily — the OpenSocial framework is providing a set of standards to ensure interoperability among the applications themselves. They’re also using oAuth authentication to allow the sharing of data between sites without exposing sensitive information that may be contained in a user profile.
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Social Net Data Portability: Too Much Information?
Posted by: Jason Z. Cohen May 12, 2008 02:03 PMIt seems as though everyone wants to be both social and portable these days. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace all have recently trumpeted their latest efforts at openness. Are they really the same? In some cases — Yahoo and Google, primarily — the OpenSocial framework is providing a set of standards to ensure interoperability among the applications themselves. They’re also using oAuth authentication to allow the sharing of data between sites without exposing sensitive information that may be contained in a user profile.