Ryan Merket’s Blog

I was on the panel for this month’s Bay Area Facebook Meetup, here is a video:

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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 […]

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Myspace announced their new application developer platform tonight with semi-locked down event in San Francisco They gave everyone on the RSVP list a free Flip Video Camera and a bag full of other shwag.
After looking through the developer site, I have some serious concerns with the Myspace platform. For one, developers don’t get to host […]

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Google has confirmed that there is no way to authenticate users on non-Google containers, thus allowing spoofing of accounts to occur, and people with the right amount of knowledge can hack OpenSocial to take over others applications.
Now, can someone please explain why Google, the world’s most successful internet company, with the smartest engineers, largest IPO, […]

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With developers scrambling for API keys to be the first to launch applications on the new OpenSocial, it seems that Google scrambled as well to get the platform out the door. From my research, it seems that each social network involved will have its own system for sandboxing, regulatory policies, terms of service and other […]

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A lot of hype surrounds OpenSocial, but a few things may keep it from taking off the way Facebook applications have.
#1 - Can it be monetized?
If developers can’t make money off the applications, then what is the point of developing on the platform?
#2 - Is it truly open?
Can you communicate across social networks? Can I […]

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