Welcome to Project SocialSite, an open source (CDDL/GPL2) project building Widgets and Web Services that make it easy for you to add social networking features to your existing web sites, including the ability to run OpenSocial Gadgets and have them backed by the same social graph.
Here are some of the key features we're developing:
* A complete end-to-end user interface for Social Networking in the form of JavaScript widgets that can be embedded into any site (Java, Ruby, PHP-based and more).
* A flexible Social Graph repository that can work in a wide variety of social networking scenarios. With configurable profile properties and relationship types.
* Comprehensive JavaScript and REST API access to that Social Graph repository: OpenSocial plus conforming extensions.
* Scalability via support for running in distributed configuration, table partitioning technologies, master and slave databases and distributed caching.
man hat es gestern, wenn man sich dafür interessiert, lesen können (siehe auch Internet Marketing-News). Facebook plant, seine Facebook Plattform als Open Source Software frei zur Verfügung zu stellen (FMBL, FQL, FJS und FAPI). Ziel? Anbieter wie Xing -rein theoretisch- könnten das Package an ihre Plattform dranflanschen und damit von den Zusatzapplikationen profitieren, die sie dann ebenso bei sich einbinden könnten. Wir reden von über +20.000 Facebook-Apps, die Drittentwickler bis dato den Facebook-Usern auf Facebook zur Nutzung anbieten. Ja, ist ja gut, es soll uns an dieser Stelle völlig egal sein, ob so eine Facebook-App nun toll ist oder nicht, dem User nutzt oder nicht.
Some people say that the bubble's going to take a downturn in the next year or two - that huge numbers of copycat startups are going to shut down, people are going to be out of work and Web 2.0 cheerleaders are going to eat their (our) words.
While startup churn is inevitable in any industry (thank goodness we're not restaurant founders!) I think this forecast is selling the future short. There are some big trends I'm really excited about for the web in 2008. Whatever happens to the economy, there's at least a whole lot of innovation to be inspired by right now. Ultimately, I think that will end up brightening the picture for all of us around the world