You’ve probably seen a lot of similar screenshots that have been nicked and posted elsewhere today showing functionality of Ning with OpenSocial, but today, Ning also put forth a narrated screencast, showing some of the versatility of Google’s OpenSocial presently in use at their system.
The screencast shows the OpenSocial-enabled web applications being tested and readied for deployment on the Ning network. Standard stuff, until you remind yourself that this isn’t Facebook, this is one of many social networking systems that will function in more or less the same way.
I got a call from “Deep Throat” at Google this evening, who gave me the scoop that the final OpenSocial internal conference takes place tomorrow evening, following which will be the official announcement of OpenSocial. And then Pete told me that everyone already knew that, and it was common knowledge (so consider this a reminder, then!).
User comment: By: PeteIt's also common knowledge that that "knowledge" has a "d" in it. ;) *winning troll week contest*
User comment: By: N1K3Google has done many innovations in the past, but this is nothing short of mindblowing. If there is a Web 3.0, this is it. I love what happened here. Last week Google pretended to be sooooo desperately interested in Facebook, and Microbrain couldn't help but notice. Google pretended to be on the verge of making a gigantic FB investment, and Microbrain beat them to it. The people running Microsoft are just so friggin stupid its miraculous. How can the executives tie their shoes without cutting their fingers off? So what do you think of your 2% share now? You could have fixed a lot of Vista bugs with that 240 million. Google, on the other hand, has some of the best actors ever to star in a Silicon Valley Drama. He totally bluffed them with: "We don't need to own everything to be successful on the Internet." For MS, it's like they just bought 240 million dollars worth of crack, and it turned out to be a bag of white sand.
User comment: By: VarunMeans you morons were the last one to know that. hehehe..see the whole universe is laughing
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: Michael PickYay, a screencast that remains totally static for the first minute, and even after that requires some serious squinting and an industrial strength magnifying glass to see anything. The functional equivalent of porn shot from a helicopter, through a window, in extreme-long-shot ("is that a body part?")
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