OpenSocial is open for business
Internet is evolving really fast in which a social site must do collaborate and integrate with other web 2.0 platform or you’ll end up at the slow lane of todays information highways. A couple days ago Google introduced APIs based on Google Gadget that will connect the social apps and platform seamlessly called OpenSocial.
One of really interesting nature of the OpenSocial APIs as Google conceptualize it, is that a web host or server is optional.
OpenSocial is built upon Google Gadget technology, so you can build a great, viral social app with little to no serving costs. With the Google Gadget Editor and a simple key/value API, you can build a complete social app with no server at all. Of course, you can also host your application on your own servers if you prefer. In all cases, Google’s gadget caching technology can ease your bandwidth demands should your app suddenly become a worldwide success.
This means I could create a single HTML index pages filled-in with OpenSocial feeders from different social sites such like MySpace, iLike, LinkedIn, gMail? (interesting), etc. and there you go I got all my social-in-a-page. I believe a lot of exciting and potential apps are going to ride on this new approach in social networking. Watch the clip.