Valleywag

Web 2.0 to English
OpenSpeak translated is "gimme"

By Paul Boutin, 6:32 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007, 400 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

Copy this whole post to another site

cancel

Loveable crankster Dave Winer unwraps the etymology of Google's OpenSocial platform.

Open Source — let's see your source code.

OpenDoc — let's get rid of Office.

OpenID — let's see your users.

Free Beer — Web 2.0.

More about opensocial

Friend Connect

Zuckerberg to Google: Let's connect, friend
Facebook launched its Japanese-language version today and vision-questing, globe-trotting CEO Mark Zuckerberg magically appeared in the land of the rising sun to take reporters' questions. More »

opensocial

Yahoo, Google, MySpace form tax-exempt foundation to promote Facebook rival
Yahoo, Google and MySpace plan to further compound their OpenSocial initiative with another initiative, the OpenSocial Foundation. OpenSocial is a widget platform Google first announced last fall when Facebook seemed poised to "take over the world" with its own platform.

Yahoo

Yahoo joins Google's OpenSocial, four months after everyone else
OpenSocial: it's Google's widget platform for MySpace and a bunch of social networks you've never of — and now Yahoo's. Bits reports that Yahoo will join the OpenSocial platform sometime in the next week.

Read More: Web 2.0 to English, opensocial, Google, Valleyspeak, Valleywag

Loading comments ...

San Francisco, 3:37 PM
Fri Jul 10
53 posts in the last 24 hours

Tip Your Editors:
tips@valleywag.com | AIM

Valleywag:
Ryan Tate | Email

Valleywag elsewhere on the Web:
Twitter | Facebook

Valleywags Emeriti:
Nick Denton
Nick Douglas
Owen Thomas