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Google’s Kevin Marks talked to CNET at the Future of Web Apps conference about the interaction between public performance and private interaction on Myspace:
One of the things that MySpace has that is interesting is that you can install applications both on your profile page and on your user page. So you can have applications that are sort of performing to others, and applications that are shown only to yourself so that you can analyze things. If you think about the social networks, there is this split between public performance and private interaction. Some sites are all public performance and everything happens on the profile, and some sites there’s much more of a reflective view of showing the user what’s going on. MySpace has both those pages.
And OpenSocial has these abstractions that will tell you where your app’s running and what the context is. So you can write the same app but it will give you different things in both contexts. It’ll do one thing when it’s on your profile showing to the world, and another thing when it’s on your page just showing things to you. One will be outward facing, one will be inward facing.
Interesting. The rticle has some though-provoking insights into openID, OpenSocial and just how open Google wants it to be. Thats a whole lot of open.
