: Name: Paul Hyland; Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

I'm the executive producer for the web site of a nonprofit publisher of education news, information, and resources, I play in a band, and I work on analyzing and influencing the impact of computers on society. I love my partner in life and my daughter very much.

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Paul's Web Space 2.1

Politics, Culture, Technology

Stories about cool events I've attended, musings about social media and other technology, and commentary about people, issues, ideas, whatever. I've had a web site since 1994, at my own domain since 1997, and switched it to blog format in 2005. Now, in 2008, I've added labels, shuffled things around a bit and fixed some style and UI quirks - hence 2.1. Watch for more widgets and microformats....

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Google + MySpace = OpenSocial

Mashable has more detail than the BBC story I saw last night. Google's new social network API suite has quite a line-up of partners - besides MySpace, partners include LinkedIn, Six Apart (MovableType/LiveJournal/Vox), Ning, Friendster, Hi5, and many others. Application developers already signed up include NewsGator, iLike, and Flixter.

Pretty impressive! I especially like the openness of it, not only saving application developers (and potentially users) from the pain and agony of supporting countless networks, but potentially giving users more control over their information. Or taking more advantage of user information to sell to you. Take your pick - benevolent Google or its evil twin.

Link: http://mashable.com/2007/11/01/myspace-google-2/

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