Open Social and Facebook API platform
Open Social is a new initiative which is led by industries big player Google along with websites like Hi5, Salesforce, Oracle. It is a platform where different developers can contribute to these social networking websites using any language like HTML, Java scripting, PHP and if these are good they are plugged into the social networking websites and hence increase the quality and services provided by the social networking website.
This is like a huge hit for facebook developers as open social allows any language. In facebook platform developers are allowed to use a special markup language which works only on facebook and it cannot be used in other websites. Google is trying to over come facebook and thus launched this business strategy.
Developers will now go towards Open Social because many big websites are involved with it and you don’t have to learn any new language inorder to develop. The simplicity of Open Social has attracted a huge group of develpers who will be working towards safe and better plugins and additional features for websites. Though it still is a fact that facebook is the most popular social networking website for now, no one can predict the impact of Open Social on it.
Google has a very clever strategy in this case, Facebook platform was only oriented towards itself and this was a big problem for the developers, but Google Open Social is really open (any language). I have applied to Open Social and I have given my preferred language as PHP and I will be looking forward to develop applications using PHP, HTML and Java Scripting. I am not sure about the time that they will take to allow me into the Open Social coders network.
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