Thursday, November 08, 2007
FATHER OF WEB 2.0 BASHES GOOGLE
As reported by Tom Sanders of vnunet.com, the father of Web 2.0 has released a statement slamming Google’s new open social software. Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, the man thought to be the father of the web 2.0 phenomenon, said that Google’s new open Social Program was “boring” and “a full blown disappointment”. For those of you who don’t know Open Social offers a standard for applications on social networks that enable software developers to market information on any site or network that supports the standard. It gained considerable early support from companies such as My Space, Plaxo, Linkedlin, and Google’s Orkut. As reported by Sanders…
“The standard does not unlock data from the participating network, however, which might have allowed a MySpace user to exchange messages with a Linkedlin user, for example.”
“The service also will not allow the use of social search engines that let users locate friends across all networks.”
O’Reilly posted a statement on his company blog stating the following about the lack of data sharing on the Open Social site.
"If all Open Social does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that's a big win for the developer as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network,"
"But it provides little incremental value to the user [who is] the real target. We do not want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks."
I agree with O’ Reilly that the elimination of certain types of sharing would undermine the whole ideology behind the Web 2.0 Phenomenon. Sharing through social networking sites,web based communities, and other such places on the net help for the spread of new ideas and concepts. It also facilitates an environment where one person can improve upon an idea or innovation of another to creates something almost entirely new. Any sort of limiting on sharing would greatly endanger the web 2.0 movement. I think that Google should take a step back and evaluate what they are doing. When the father of a movement that you are a huge part of starts a backlash against you, you be going about things the wrong way.
Here are some interesting links about web 2.0.
What is web 2.o? WEB 2.0 Summit Web 2.0 Song
“The standard does not unlock data from the participating network, however, which might have allowed a MySpace user to exchange messages with a Linkedlin user, for example.”
“The service also will not allow the use of social search engines that let users locate friends across all networks.”
O’Reilly posted a statement on his company blog stating the following about the lack of data sharing on the Open Social site.
"If all Open Social does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that's a big win for the developer as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network,"
"But it provides little incremental value to the user [who is] the real target. We do not want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks."
I agree with O’ Reilly that the elimination of certain types of sharing would undermine the whole ideology behind the Web 2.0 Phenomenon. Sharing through social networking sites,web based communities, and other such places on the net help for the spread of new ideas and concepts. It also facilitates an environment where one person can improve upon an idea or innovation of another to creates something almost entirely new. Any sort of limiting on sharing would greatly endanger the web 2.0 movement. I think that Google should take a step back and evaluate what they are doing. When the father of a movement that you are a huge part of starts a backlash against you, you be going about things the wrong way.
Here are some interesting links about web 2.0.
What is web 2.o? WEB 2.0 Summit Web 2.0 Song
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A very good post. O'Reilly is right, if users can't move data from one platform to another then the promise of Web 2.0 is denied.
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