Ryan Merket’s Blog

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OpenSocial API has been proven to be more unpredictable, and actually more decentralized. Though there is one name, there is many different flavors for each container (social network).

For instance, there is custom functions that apps call for each container. How do you possibly port your code from one container to the next if there are completely different functions for each container?

Also, OpenSocial requires the application developers to code advanced JavaScript. Facebook required developers to learn a variance of HTML, called FBML, which is VERY easy to learn.

OpenSocial is also VERY buggy. It is still very young, and is nearly a year behind the Facebook platform.

Why should Facebook change to a platform that is harder for developers to learn, not truly portable and buggy?

Bebo is running a licensed version of the Facebook platform, and it is doing great!

If anything — everyone should license the Facebook platform.