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OpenSocial: First Impressions (Robert Cooper)
Google didn’t design a spec for interoperability of social networks as much as they built an API for dealing with Google. I don’t think this is what people really wanted here.Heh. Yea. Google is good at pretending to be interoperable, but only on their terms. In my experience, they are piss-poor at working with people outside of Google on interoperability. To this day, I still can’t get anybody to work with me in a sustained way on figuring out why people can’t subscribe to Cosmo calendars from Google. There’s no dialogue, just arrogance.
