blog.pmarca.com: Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
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Saved by 8 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-05-14
- Midmarketplace on 2009-02-10 - Tags ning , opensocial
- Amarois on 2009-02-03 - Tags google , web2.0 , socialnetworking , opensocial
- Mbauwens on 2008-07-08 - Tags Open-Standards , Social-Graph , P2P
- Brands on 2008-05-31 - Tags no_tag
- Plindberg on 2008-05-22 - Tags no_tag
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Friend Connect is a mechanism by which Open Social gadgets can be published and used not just within a social network but also beyond that social network. When an Open Social gadget shows up elsewhere on the web, via Friend Connect, the friend data and social context comes with the Open Social gadget from its origin social network -- and that origin social network might be a network on Ning or a large walled garden network like MySpace or Orkut, and that Open Social gadget might be embedded on any page anywhere on the web.
In a sense, Friend Connect one-ups Flash widgets. Many social networks and other content hubs today publish Flash widgets like video players and music players that get embedded in pages all over the web. Friend Connect is a mechanism that provides the embedding capability for Open Social gadgets to be used all throughout the web -- with the added benefit that with a Friend Connect-enabled Open Social gadget, the user gets her social context anywhere she goes, which isn't the case with a typical Flash widget.
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