After a long break I’m back and probably have set my mind to set my path in web design and web related stuff. It’s such a waste to have no backup of what i had previously, the server crashed and lost most of my data including the backup of everything (which was saved on the server) and not on my computer. I know I know..I can be really smart to do such thing.
I’ve been out-dating my self with slacking and procrastinating, till I didn’t really hear about web 2.0 till a couple of months ago. It seems to me that web 2.0 is getting more obvious to the eyes now, Youtube, MySpace, Facebook and many more sites. Event WordPress has ajax now.
According to O’Rielly
I love this video on web 2.0
Downloaded a few tools last nite mootools and jQuery but I’ve tried them out yet will review it when I got the chance. No promise. Also last night I was reading something on Open Social and watching this video.
here’s link to Google’s Open Social page,
Social networks have seen that next wave, and have started opening up developer APIs to enable third-party innovation on their websites. This is a great thing, but it has also led to a growing number of APIs which a developer must learn. So we took a look at the state of the web and asked how we could make development easier for both websites and developers. Out of that exercise came OpenSocial.
OpenSocial is a set of common APIs that will work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning, orkut, and LinkedIn, among others. In addition, this allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites. Learn once, write anywhere, if you will. And because it’s built on web standards like HTML and JavaScript, developers don’t have to learn a custom programming language.
Perhaps most interestingly, we will see social capabilities move into new contexts. OpenSocial will also work in non-traditional social contexts, such as on Salesforce.com and Oracle. With a common set of APIs, it will be even easier to extend social functionality. Beyond the many fun and entertaining social applications we already have seen, we think we’ll see a number of social applications emerge in business contexts.
Source: Open Social blog
If you watch the video there’s a pretty interesting demo on the collaboration of the companies and how these widgets and other developers of web application can really make more powerful application that would serve the need of people around, not to mention making socializing a step ahead of what it is now today.
More reading material;
Naveen’s blog on Facebook vs Open Social
Marc Andreessen report on Open Social launch
Tech Crunch News on Facebook not brief bout Open Social