opensocial

Google Opensocial: Is it so open afterall?

Internet Revolution has a great post on Google and its top 10 failures. Opensocial is listed at number 4 and I cannot agree more. With all the hoopla around the launch, it took orkut about 7 months to launch opensocial applications and even if we ignore for a minute the fact that developing on orkut […]

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How Virality Works

I have lately been trying to understand how virality and WOM works. I know that if your service is compelling enough, many users will talk about you. But what I have been discovering in the last few weeks is that you can also structure your application, the flow etc in such a way that users […]

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Google’s OpenSocial and Muziboo.com

I am very excited (as is everyone else) on OpenSocial’s launch. Most of the users for Muziboo.com are members of orkut and we are planning to roll out a few applications over the next week or so to help them showcase their music to their friends.
The great thing about open social is ‘learn once write […]

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